From the Archives: Ed Ruscha, Geographer
The cover of our June/July 2016 issue features a text work by Ed Ruscha. We looked back to our October 1982 issue, in which Carrie Rickey wrote on the artist's traveling retrospective organized by the…
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Pilar Tompkins Rivas Named Director of Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles
East Los Angeles College announced today that Pilar Tompkins—the former coordinator of curatorial initiatives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—has been hired as director of the college…
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Hedonists and Humanists: Mapplethorpe in Los Angeles
It seems difficult to reevaluate Robert Mapplethorpe’s career today, partly because the furor over the cancellation of his first retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in 1989 inspired such thoughtful …
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‘This Spring Ritual, This Frenzy of Buying’: A Weekend With LACMA’s Collectors Committee as It Votes on Acquisitions
Whether they knew it or not, the producers of Mad Men lifted their opening-credit graphics—the silhouette of a man in a tie and white dress shirt—right from the work of Idelle Weber. Weber…
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The Painter of Modern Life: Kerry James Marshall Aims to Get More Images of Black Figures into Museums
The artist will be the subject of major traveling retrospective this year
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Environmental Art: Proposals for a Future World
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde's energy-conscious projects—a bike path, condensed-smog jewelry, an outdoor air cleaner, an illuminated dance floor and various large-scale urban light projections—posi…
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Putting Mapplethorpe in his Place
Twenty-six years ago, Robert Mapplethorpe’s BDSM photographs were successfully defended in court as elegantly rigorous artworks that transcend their maverick origins. But did that normalizing rational…
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To Take a Computer as an Apprentice: A Look at When Art Met Technology at LACMA, in 1971
With so many shows about art and the Internet lately, it’s hard to remember a time when it was unexpected that artists would ever rely on machinery and electronics, but, in 1971, when the Los…
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Diana Thater
In Diana Thater's survey "The Sympathetic Imagination," organized by the National Gallery's Lynne Cooke and LACMA's Christine Y. Kim and gathering work made between 1992 and the present, the artist fl…
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