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Anticipate Difficulty
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Stan VanDerBeek with his Movie-Drome, Stony Point, NY. Courtesy Yale School of Architecture Making films is not easy. Most...
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Sunday Boys
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Screen Tests Reel #4, 1964-65. I spent Sunday looking at boys. It began at LACMA, where I saw...
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The Person Who Wants Everything
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley John Baldessari, "Tincture of a Person Who Wants Everything," Mixed Media, 1996. Courtesy Jancar Gallery. Alex Van Gelder...
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God’s Eye View
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Peter Van Agtmael, "2008, Above Afghanistan" on the cover of "2nd Tour, Hope I Don't Die." Via Magnum Photos. Clicking...
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Happy Marriage, Center Stage
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Lorna Simpson, "1957–2009 Interiors #3," 2009 Human Nature is the remarkably, almost assaultingly, immense title of Los...
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Little Left to Lose
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Vija Celmins, "Time Magazine Cover," 1965, oil on canvas, 22x16 in., private collection c/o Ms. Laura Bechter. Sunday night,...
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Light of the World
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Mother Trust Superet Church's Prayer Garden A mile and a half from where I live, close to downtown, there’s a strange...
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Situation Rooms
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley A button York Chang designed for Arco Madrid. It quotes a Latin American artist Chang invented. York Chang always wanted to...
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The Road To: An Interview with Franklin Sirmans
Issues of under-financing, administrative inadequacy and lack of community support are some of the problems that can be found currently in multiple organizations in New Orleans. Prospect New Orleans, a...
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Levitated Mass: ‘Huh? Wow!’ or ‘Wow! Huh?’
"Levitated Mass," installation shot. Photo © Will Brown Hernández, 2012. This past Sunday, under the beating hot Los Angeles sun, LACMA finally held its inauguration ceremony for “Levitated Mass,” the...
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Ugly Painting Competition
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A column by Catherine Wagley Ken Price, "Hunchback of Venice" (2000), acrylic on fired clay, 14 ½ x 29 x 13 inches. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen. Courtesy Los...
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Seductresses at Family Dinners
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A column by Catherine Wagley Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist, c. 1609–1610, National Gallery, London,...
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James Turrell: A Retrospective at LACMA
There’s no doubt that you’ll hear much about the work of James Turrell in the coming months. With three major exhibitions—at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Fine Arts,...
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#Hashtags: The Art of Conquest
#institutions #race #jeffreydeitch #elibroad #lacma #moca #manifestdestiny #americanexpansionism Los Angeles museums have recently demonstrated the old adage that “nothing endures but change.” Since...
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Newsha Tavakolian at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From our friends at Artillery magazine, today we bring you a review of Newsha Tavakolian‘s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Author Ellie Shoja notes: “…Tavakolian’s women seem to use their...
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Ryan Trecartin at LACMA
Considered a prophet of the digital age, video artist Ryan Trecartin transforms contemporary culture’s addiction to the internet and obsession with technological devices into a violently exuberant...
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John Altoon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Today from our friends at Artillery Magazine, we bring you John David O’Brien’s review of John Altoon’s retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. O’Brien notes, “…Altoon’s art lives up to...
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Larry Sultan: Here and Home at LACMA
“Isn’t imagination really the final measure of intelligence?” — Larry Sultan Picture it: golf courses, lawn furniture, sprinklers, empty pools, groceries, plush carpets you can almost feel under your...
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Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short-format responses to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun...
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Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
There is a scene in Pierre Huyghe’s shadowy, dreamlike film The Host and the Cloud (2010) in which a woman produces a black rabbit from an unmarked box. No magician, she handles the unexpected animal...
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