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Catherine Opie Regen Projects, Through May 17th In the June issue of ArtReview, I invite you to read my piece on Catherine Opie's new body of work. This is a link to the article online. Thanks for reading.

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Jennifer Steinkamp Acme Gallery Through June 28th For full disclosure, I should say that I already wrote about Jennifer Steinkamp’s show at ACME for ArtSlant and recommended it to the website’s readers. When I saw the post, however, I started to feel like I left something unsaid. This is what I initially wrote: “Jennifer Steinkamp's video installations are unapologetically beautiful and fill

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Soo Kim Sandroni ReyThrough June 14th In 1980, Bob Irwin converted a store front in Venice into what may have been the perfect expression of that most explored vocabulary definition -- everyone’s favorite words, “inside” and “outside.” I was still in diapers, but the story goes that people on the street walked up to a soft white wall, gleaming on the side of what must of been a dirty Venice

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Robert Rauschenberg, Art Pioneer, dead at 82 Charles Stuckey once wrote that Robert Rauschenberg considered art a gift. In Italy in 1953, Rauschenberg took the great artist Alberto Burri one of his works as a present. He gave gifts to his friends – there's one infamous but lovely story where Rauschenberg repainted a black painting he had given John Cage because the composer was a few minutes

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Paul LeePeres ProjectsShow Closed March 29, 2008 When viewing Paul Lee’s work at Peres Projects, I thought of Robert Rauschenberg and an old chestnut that still gets theorists and historians all riled up in the arts, namely that there are two ways of looking at Robert Rauschenberg. Some critics see his work in terms of the critique of modernist painting, especially Abstract Expressionism. For

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This morning on Modern Art Notes, I read the post on El Anatsui, and in response, I would argue that Barbara Pollack’s quoted line (although misusing the word “African” – Anatsui was born in Ghana but lives and works in Nigeria, he seems specifically Nigerian, and it is wrong to use African as a blanket term) is at least on to something. Culturally specific creative resourcefulness is indeed

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Nathan Mabry Cherry and Martin Through April 5th, 2008 I am almost certain that I am going to over-think Nathan Mabry’s work. I want to warn the reader of this at the outset. Elements of his work, for example his whimsical titles or his masked Maillol sculptures, definitely make me feel on the outside of a joke of I don’t understand. There is something wanton and ugly about those Mabry’s masks,

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Jim Welling Regen Projects Through April 5, 2008 Jim Welling’s career spans several decades and during this time, he saw photography move from an underappreciated secondary art form to a theoretical sparring partner for painting and sculpture. He then saw photography’s subsequent demotion to an informational bullet point in conceptual projects and the subject of photography (that thing or scene

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Tim Bavington Mark Moore Gallery Through March 29, 2008 Currently, Dave Hickey is garnering a great deal of attention for his recent show in Las Vegas of artists he finds interesting and of the moment, many of which are his former students. At the same time, Hickey is advocating, and rightly so, many Los Angeles hard edge painters that never received the attention they deserved over the years

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Miles CoolidgeAcme GalleryThrough February 9, 2008 Miles Coolidge currently has a show this month at both Casey Kaplan in New York and Acme in Los Angeles. Originally from Canada, Coolidge studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the famous Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the school of the likes of Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, and many more of the strongest photographers working today.

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If you are in Los Angeles, you might check out Tony Delap, Neil Farber, and the many projects James Turrell has going on at the moment. Here is my brief write-up on these three artists and their current shows on ArtSlant.

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Although, I cannot yet say I fully support Barack Obama, I am interested in any message linking candidates to their views on the arts. This was forwarded to me. I cannot say for certain whether or not it came directly from the Obama campaign, but that is story I was told, and that is what I am going on. Enjoy. "Thank you for contacting us in support of the arts. Senator Obama is a champion for

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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown OCTOBER 21, 2007 through February 23, 2008 (Jacobs Building) and through April 13, 2008 (1001 Kettner) We heard from Robert Irwin quite a bit this year. Last Spring, he sat down with Michael Govan at LACMA to talk about his plans for the Palm Garden that you can see slowly being prepared for the opening of The Broad Contemporary Art Museum in

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This was my first full gallery year in Los Angeles. Here are the ones that struck me: 1. Charles Ray, Regen Projects: The best sculpture I’ve seen in years, and I stand by my claim absolutely that Ray is the best pure sculptor in the city. Ten years to complete, his Hinoki tree, made from Japanese Cypress, took over Regen II with its chalky orange bark, twisting broken branches, and light,

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Sometimes I don’t know if I go to the Getty so much because of its gardens and evening views of L.A. or to visit my beloved Fernand Khnopff painting, Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer, 1885. Khnopff was Belgian involved closely with symbolist currents of the late 19th century flowering all over Europe, especially in Victorian England with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, France with the Nabi Fellowship, Gauguin

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This transitory experiment in MoMA’s collection by Robert Rauschenberg simply sends my mind reeling. In a way, my citing of the Picasso collage, the De Kooning, and The Burri as my favorites make way for this Rauschenberg, a painting that (in the spirit of his working method) he probably made in a day. However, the work is right on the historical button. Let’s think about what is going on

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In the Tate Collection, Picasso’s small collage from 1913 is one of the most historically and visually dense works around. In the spirit of Dada and pastiche, Picasso arranges a still life of a bottle, a guitar, and newspaper with a variety of sundry materials, and in a few simple gestures invites a world of shifting symbols and doors. Notice how the patterned wall paper can be seen as the back

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Contrary to most romantic notions of artists as outsiders, Puvis de Chavannes was a celebrity – a successful painter that found a place at the Paris Salon who had no problem with pitching the same classical allegories over and over. He was a familiar face in Paris – not locked in his attic like Redon, isolated like Cezanne, or full of wanderlust like Gauguin. Puvis’ allegories are soft, wispy,

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2007 Books The best book I read this year was Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, a work that set the tone for my life this year as well as my literary wanderings. When engaging Sebald’s work, it is impossible to tell what is fabricated and what is not. Actually, Sebald’s main character Austerlitz seems more real to me than any of the non-fictional characters I read this year, his melancholy is real and

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I grew up twelve miles from a ruined 59,000 acre World War II camp called Camp Howze. Located outside of Gainesville, Texas, Camp Howze is now little more than a few old water towers and hundreds of cinder block nubs which mark where old barracks and buildings stood. There were many such camps all over the United States, and a large one was in Herford, Texas. In Herford, many Italian prisoners

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As Tyler Green is currently doing on Modern Art Notes, I think it is a great idea to name one’s ten favorite paintings if not for any other reason than to force oneself to write and post. Naming ten favorites is no easy task. In fact, the task cuts to quick about your history viewing art, who you are and what you value, why certain things affect you more than others, how art comes into even the

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Often, artists who focus best on alienation show us forcefully the depth and limits of intimacy. Sartre fits this description very well, and one of Beckett’s great contributions was his ability to uncover an impossible, almost dirty intimacy atop horrible losses of self and exposures to neglect almost unimaginable. Ingmar Bergman, I would argue, was the cinema’s greatest artist of both

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I haven’t yet seen Neo Rauch’s monumental painting Para, 2007 at the Met in New York. I know it only from reproduction. I also know it is sacrilege to write of a painting from such a faulty source. But a blog is an informal forum and I cannot resist. Para contains three loosely connected moments all held in a sort of arrest. The first moment is a man brooding at a keyboard who decides to swivel

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April 4 through May 12, 2007Regen Projects I recently watched Slavoj Zizeck’s brief commentary on the film Children of Men. He discusses the last frame of the film where we see a woman and child set afloat in a rough sea. They have just escaped extreme danger, and the long shots of Cuaron’s camera had brought us into this pervasive action. The woman and child are past panic but not past

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Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson Through September 9, 2007 Getty Museum The J Paul Getty Museum has commissioned four new sculptures by Tim Hawkinson, and, for the first time on the west coast, his gargantuan Überorgan, 2001 is on display. Using an actual organ and a variety of ducts and pipes as a conveyance of massive sound, the flatulent and moaning piece is loud, overwhelming and

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