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When all the art disappeared from the walls of the iconic Chelsea hotel last fall, where did it go? The Larry Rivers Foundation is the latest group trying to find out. Rivers’s “Syndics of the Drapery Guild as Dutch Masters,” a paint and wood piece that’s part of a series riffing on Rembrandt, is on
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LOS ANGELES — Minimalism, as streamlined and simple as it is, is hard work. How do you boil down the essence of your subject matter and capture that for your audience? Minimalism is an especially challenging task when you're working with pop culture.
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LOS ANGELES — Olafur Eliasson turned the Tate's Turbine Hall into a cloud. Doug Wheeler made it feel like we're in a cloud. And now one artist, Berndaut Smilde, is putting a cloud in the gallery.
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CHICAGO — We’re now a quarter of the way through Scottish artist Martin Creed’s year-long “residency” at the MCA Chicago. I put “residency” in quotation marks because Creed is only going to be here sporadically throughout 2012. So far, the MCA has put one new work by Creed on display each month, non
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I guess we should be expect an LA museum to acquire a painting of actors but this one might be by the great 18th C. French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
Art
Tonight's invite-only symposium organized by The Drawing Center invited five artists and two curators to explore the state of drawing today. Here's my report.
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LOS ANGELES — I recently stumbled across the work of Los Angeles artist Amisha Gadani, an artist-in-residence at a science lab in UCLA. Gadani has created a series of "interactive wearables" that mimic the protective features of animals in a fun way, marrying fashion with science.
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This week, we're all in recovery and laying low but the doctor says you need to get out of the house. We're cleansing our systems of the New York art fairs and moving onto something new. The doctor has written you a prescription that involves lots of crocheting, timelines galore, artful dinner conve
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LOS ANGELES — Tucked away in a small corner at LACMA is a new show: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping. Culled together from the museum's permanent collection, the works consist of embroidery inspired by printed paper works.
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SAN FRANCISCO — About twenty years ago, Sega released a video game titled Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. As a young lad, me and my friends spent hours in front of the television playing as Michael Jackson as he scurried through dark alleys killing bad guys with high kicks and fedora hat throws. The S
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LOS ANGELES — The iPad catalogue trend continues, this time with a gorgeous new digital catalogue released by the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Celebrating their Paintings of the Americas collection, the catalogue offers a timeline of American history through painting, with chapters like "The Coloni
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Over the last few years Woodward Gallery has been transforming their stretch of Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side into a lively hotspot with regularly packed art openings, a rotating outdoor street art venue and now a bar named Ghost.