Category: art news

  • Photographer Larry Sultan has died

    Larry Sultan, the photographer who focused on Southern California, has died.   His work frequently examined suburban life in San Fernando Valley, particularly the adult film industry there.   Mr.  Sultan received his BA (in Political Science) from UCSB.   Read the LA Times obituary here.

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  • Jeanne-Claude dead at 74

    Jeanne-Claude, artist and wife of Christo, has died. Their creative collaboration produced over 50 years of “wrapping” projects, such as the Reichstag in Berlin (1995) and more recently “The Gates” in Central Park in New York (2005). The couple had been working toward completing “Over The River” and “The Mastaba“. via the LA Times

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  • Leonardo da Vinci in Los Angeles

    The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles will host a short-run exhibition that features a rare showing of Leonardo’s drawing Angel in the Flesh (c. 1513-1515). Also included will be selections from Leonardo’s The Theatre Sheet (c. 1506-1508, from the Atlanticus Codex) and video artist Bill Viola’s installation The Last Angel (2002). Opening night, scholar…

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  • New Museum Exhibitions in SoCal

    Lots of new things opening  – a few highlights: New exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection”, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”,  “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock”, and continuing  “British Watercolors…

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  • ARTMargins Journal on East European Visual Culture

    ARTMargins is an online journal devoted to Contemporary  Central and East European Visual Culture.  Founded in 1999 and published three times a year, it is managed by staff at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts and University of California, Santa Barbara –  our own Sven Spieker is the Editor.  There are wonderfully diverse articles on…

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  • Art Historians of Southern California Annual meeting on Nov. 7

    THE ART HISTORIANS of  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (AHSC) November 7, 2009 at 9:00 am Occidental College, Weingart Hall Program includes lunch and reception.   RSVP for further information to Rachel Pinto at eaurae@gmail.com Full program is available here. Directions to Occidental College here.

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