Today’s show: “The West Coast Avant-Garde: 1950-Present” is currently on view at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The group exhibition is a survey of art made in California starting in the mid-1950’s spanning until the present featuring works by Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha, and Larry Bell to name a few.
Read MoreTEDxMet: The In-Between
September 26, 2015
THREE SCREEN RAY (2006, three-channel installation, b&w/sound, 5:23)
Talk: Curator, Department of Photographs, Douglas Eklund
Berlin Atonal
August 22, 2015, 6pm
CROSSROADS (1976, 35mm, b&w/sound, 37min)
Walker Art Center
Hippy Modernism: The Struggle For Utopia
BREAKAWAY (1966, 16mm, b&w/sound, 5min)
Dance and Vocals by Toni Basil
Kunstmuseum Bonn, TELE-GEN
KUNST UND FERNSEHEN, 01.10.2015 - 17.01.2016
REPORT (1963-67, 16mm, b&w, sound, 13min)
It has been said that a single incident can change a life. For Larry Bell, that moment was, on its surface, quite ordinary. During a break from his studies at Chouinard, the fledgling artist found work at a framing shop in the San Fernando Valley.
Read MorePresenting, an exciting group show spanning generations of California-based artists whose varied practices gave rise to a style that resonates in both art history and younger artists today. Many of the most influential post-war American art movements are closely tied to the West Coast, despite being written out of the art historical record until very recently.
Read MoreArtCrush 2015
July 29 - July 31, 2015
ArtCrush is Aspen’s premier summer event benefiting the Aspen Art Museum. This year’s event features the 2015 Aspen Award for Art presentation to renowned contemporary artist Lorna Simpson, a remarkable wine tasting, seated dinner, and both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art.
The True Form
Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to announce The True Form, an exhibition of works by Peter Alexander (1939), Larry Bell (1939), Jake Berthot (1939-2015), Ron Cooper (1943), Helen Pashgian (1934), Edda Renouf (1943), G. William Webb (1987), and Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987). The True Form, so titled after a 2007 Ken Price work, comprises a selection of painting and sculpture; this grouping of works illustrates, across media and a variety of conceptual intents, each artist’s drive to establish a pure articulation of their works’ most essential components.
The True Form will be on view at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 53 East 64 Street, New York, NY 10065, from July 14-August 14, 2015. Gallery hours are 10a-6p, Monday through Friday. The gallery will be closed Monday July 13. For further information, please contact the gallery during business hours at 212-246-5360, or at info@franklinparrasch.com.
When Ed Moses had his first show of drawings at LACMA in 1976, it was on the heels of a show at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York that earned him the sobriquet “player” from legendary critic Clement Greenberg.
Read More"Don't Touch anything and you'll be safe, You're very close to death." says Sebastien Noel. We're huddling under a shed of sorts built from small timbers and draped in plastic. The structure covers a 5 by 10 foot sheet of woven matte photo paper that is sprawled across tempered-glass table, which the Franco-Italian artist and his German partners, Eva Rucki and Conny Freyer, known professionally as Troika, use to create their increasingly popular "light: drawings.
Read MoreMuch contemporary art (though perhaps all art, always) has trust issues. It asks us to question what we think trustworthy. Take Troika's 'Limits of a Known Territory', a site-specific installation currently on display at NC-arte in Bogotá.
Read MoreLita Albuquerque has been selected as the recipient of a Santa Monica Artist Fellowship for her creative writing and performance based work. Nominated by a group of distinguished arts professional approved by the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Albuquerque’s dedicated and unique vision, especially her commitment to a writing practice that informs and gives birth to her visual and performance work, provided the group with the impetus to award her this fellowship geared towards the production of new work. Recent performances by Albuquerque include, Spine of the Earth 2012, as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, “Sometimes the sea is silver, sometimes it is actually red, other times it is an azure blue” Or is it ultramarine? for the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2014, An Elongated Now and Particle Horizon commissioned by the Laguna Art Museum for their 2014 Art & Nature festival and an upcoming performance, 20/20 Accelerando, at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in January 2016.
A beautiful day on the atoll. Water lapping at the beach, ships out on the water. Sea birds screeching, a light breeze mussing the palm in the foreground of a black-and-white view of the lazy Pacific. Then the bomb goes off.
Read MoreOn Friday, Los Angeles’ Kohn Gallery announced that will represent the estate of artist John Altoon. According to a statement from the gallery, the estate includes rare paintings and drawings that have never been shown.
Read MoreTroika is part of the group show ‘Reverse Order: Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell’ at Anne Mosseri - Marlio Galerie in Basel.
On the 18th of June the gallery will host a special vernissage for Troika's new sculpture Polar Spectrum (2015), currently on tour from the group show ‘Short Cuts’ at Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt in Biel / Bienne.
Read MoreThe estate of John Altoon, a core member of the Los Angeles art scene of the late 1950s and ’60s, is now represented by Los Angeles’s Kohn Gallery.
Read MoreFor a brief few weeks around the close of 2014, it felt as if you could divide your acquaintances into two groups: those who were listening to Serial and those who were not. Devotees of this spin-off from the popular podcast This American Life soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true-life murder case. But, beyond the fascinating, disturbing facts it forensically investigated, Serial’s enormous popularity suggested that the spoken word might have become the ‘new rock and roll’.
Read MoreOpening: Saturday 6th June 2015, 11 am
6 June - 5 September 2015
NC-arte
Cr. 5, nr. 26 B -76 Bogotá,
Colombia
Troika's new solo show Limits of a Known Territory will open at NC-arte in Bogotá on the 6th of June.
The works in the exhibition, ranging from drawings made with electric charge, to sculpture and installation, share a subtly deceptive nature, unsettling our assumptions of what we perceive as predictable, possible or real.
The show is named after a site specific installation, in which the space of the foundation has been flooded and elusively sectioned by a controlled choreography of water streams. Drawing upon Troika's interest in the connections between randomness and the exercise of control, the site can be conceived as the stage for a futuristic reminiscence of a casual occurrence or the simulation of a parallel reality.
Artist talk:
Troika's Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel will be talking about the show and Troika's practice at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano on Thursday 4th of June from 4.15 pm.
free entrance
Carrera 4 nr. 22-40 Bogotá - Biblioteca Piso 2
Hemiciclo - Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Opening times:
free entrance
Mon / Fry: 10 am - 6 pm
Sat: 10 am - 2 pm
JOAN NELSON AND JOSEPH YOAKUM
JUNE 4—JULY 11, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 4 FROM 6—8PM
The writing was on the wall -- scrawled, repeatedly, in black ink and projected onto the sides of the tent: “I will not make any more boring art.”
The sentiment -- from a 1971 John Baldessari lithograph -- was a fitting homage to the 83-year-old artist, who was honored Saturday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art gala in Los Angeles.
Read MoreNot so very long ago, venues for art in Los Angeles were somewhat limited. LACMA, MOCA, and the Getty dominated the scene, with a few significant galleries dotting the landscape, here and there. But now, with a new injection of gallery energy into central Hollywood, and the enormous and extraordinary undertaking that is the Broad, along with many other moving and changing art venues, art in L.A. is truly on the verge. As Suzanne Isken at the Craft and Folk Art Museum puts it, “There is no center in L.A.—it is a multi-action city for art.”
Kohn Gallery
Don’t miss the Kohn, just around the corner from Regen on Highland Boulevard: this 12,000-foot space has three gallery spaces, as well as an external space that is planned for future sculpture exhibits. With soaring 22-foot ceilings, Kohn has played host to some the West Coast’s most important artists: Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner. Michael Kohn is a fixture in the Los Angeles art scene, and checking in at Kohn is a good way to keep current. Now showing at the Kohn: Tom LaDuke. Coming up: Simmons and Burke and Lita Albuquerque. - See more at: http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-l-a-s-new-and-future-museums/#sthash.nFPAHEKT.dpuf
