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Benjamin Reiss: Creating to UnderstandOlivia Fales | Jan 3, 2014
The human body is a complex machine- we know this. If a sculpture’s framework evokes the body, you can bet that it, too, is complex. Bejamin Reiss’s sculpture Automobile (2009-2012), a life-size tower of colorful …
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The House That Agnès Built. Agnès Varda at LACMAEmily Kramer | Jan 2, 2014
If you recognize the house as a symbol of the self, then you’ll get the subtle joke of Agnès Varda’s film house installations, one of which is up at LACMA through June 22nd, 2014. The structure, …
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Candice Breitz, The Woods, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los AngelesAstra Price | Dec 5, 2013
In traditional fairy tales, a character’s entry into the woods often acts as a point of loss and discovery. Hansel and Gretel lose their way, Little Red Riding Hood realizes that her Grandma is not …
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Forrest Bess: Seeing Things InvisibleKimberly Nichols | Nov 27, 2013
Amongst a sea of plastic boobs, manicured humans, movie stars, gracious art donors and the crème de la crème of the Los Angeles art world scene at the recent annual Hammer Museum gala, I, with …
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Room to Live: Contemporary, conceptual, CaliforniaCatherine Nueva España | Nov 25, 2013
California/Los Angeles occupies a definite place in my experience and imagination, having traveled there frequently for over a decade. It is both a place and a space for art and the creative process; a contradictory …
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Carlo Zanni: The Sandman and other projects from Mars at Paul Young GalleryDiana Gadaldi | Nov 22, 2013
On November 14th, Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles hosted an exclusive one-day sale event featuring the work of some thirty new media artists from around the world. Because of the exceptional success of the initiative, …
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Joel Shapiro at L.A. Louver Gallery, Los AngelesAsa Zabarsky | Nov 21, 2013
For an established sculptor to begin working in installation over the course the last decade could be dismissed as an obligatory gesture, an appeal to dominant trends in the art world. In the case of …
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Abelardo Morell: Reclaiming the FamiliarOlivia Fales | Nov 7, 2013
The Universe Next Door is a fitting description for the work of Abelardo Morell, whose photographs are now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Morell reveals a world not traditionally …
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Tête à Tête: A Visual Conversation About FeminismAlex Moore | Oct 17, 2013
During September, RAID projects in Los Angeles hosted Tête à Tête, an exhibition that re-examined the 1969 feminist assertion that “the personal is political.” The show of work by all female-identified artists ranged from video to …
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Lost in the Work: Drafting Universes by Sara SchnadtAlex Moore | Oct 3, 2013
On Sunday night, in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, a small group of believers gathered to witness the creation (and subsequent destruction) of the universe. After two cycles of the cosmos returning to …
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Werner Herzog at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesCatherine Nueva España | Sep 30, 2013
This immersive and multi-layered new work by filmmaker Werner Herzog was created for the 2012 Whitney Biennal and is his first video art installation. As with Mr. Herzog’s other work, this has a strong musical …
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Ed Ruscha at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesCatherine Nueva España | Sep 12, 2013
Ed Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, saw Los Angeles for the first time at 14, returned as a student, and today is still one of the best chroniclers of American/Los Angeles life. Much of …
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