When artist Ted Meyer first felt some relief from Gaucher’s Disease, his stance on scars and the meanings of bodies changed. “I came to view my own body as something I could almost depend on, not something always fighting with me.” In Scarred for Life, the Brewery artist’s exhibition of mono-prints, Meyer explores this transcendence [...]
“Rauschenberg at Gemini” continues through March 21 at the Armory Center for the Arts. Curator Jay Belloli has assembled many of Robert Rauschenberg’s most famous prints, print series, and multiples produced between 1967 and 2001 at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous multiples workshop in Los Angeles, which was organized in 1966 and is still run by [...]
Visit the FIDM Museums & Galleries for the chance to see the work of award-winning costume designers in exquisite detail, as the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising presents the 18th annual “Art of Motion Picture Costume Design” exhibition Feb. 9 through April 17. In addition to costumes from 2009 films, designs worn by Keira [...]
You probably recognized her, or thought you did, even if you didn’t know who she was or who had painted her. She appeared in full color on the cover of Life magazine in 1937, though that’s probably not where you saw her. As one early critic noted, she is “one of those images that appear [...]
How often does it happen that an art world giant has a big birthday and we’re all invited to the party? Well, Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica provides just such a rare opportunity when it hosts “Rachel Rosenthal’s Birthday Bash 83” on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 7-11 p.m.
Rosenthal, an iconic interdisciplinary performance artist, was [...]
The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s Halla Gala promises a clever way to celebrate art and Halloween on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 7 to 11 p.m. The museum’s website beckons: “Come as your secret self – your alternate identity or inner persona – to an evening of fantasy, fashion, and fun to benefit the Santa [...]
At the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, you can stroll more than a dozen gardens with 14,000 varieties of plants, stopping to smell the jasmine, contemplate bonsai, or snap a photo in a grove of palm trees — all under the glorious California sun. But Curator Jessica Todd Smith is hoping the new [...]
Have you ever walked in a painting? Sounds cool, doesn’t it? At the Pasadena Museum of California Art, you can literally walk into and around Annie Lapin’s “Parallel Deliria Iteration,” an installation that she describes as “a never-ending painting in three dimensions.” Let’s just say that right now the museum’s Project Room looks like an [...]
“Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples” continues through Oct. 4 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Want free tickets? Here is info from LACMA’s website on how to get them:
June 9: Free Admission to Pompeii and the Roman Villa
LACMA is pleased to offer one day of [...]
Something about “Images de Deauville,” the poster image for the “Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance” exhibit at the Getty, instantly drew me in. The 1936 photograph is an unusually striking, intensely colorful still life. In the foreground are a metallic sphere, a yellow cone, and a single die. Behind those geometric objects, a pink scallop shell, [...]
