Recent Posts Tagged With 'lacma'

• Your Bright Future, Your Historical Past

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 10:52 in reviews, lacma, museums exhibition, your bright future

  Yong Soon Min's 2009 Springtimes of Castro and Kim 2009The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is now showing Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea through September 20, 2009. At the press opening I commented to one of LACMA's staffers ...

• Mt. Vesuvius at the Tar Pits: Garden Gnome Edition

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 02:03 in antiquities, pompeii, lacma

  unk. Garden Scene, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii, c. 1st cent. BCE-1st cent. CE (fresco)unk. Basin and Stand (foreground), c. 1st cent. CE (marble)A large part of Pompeii and the Roman Villa is set aside for objects that were found outside th...

• Pompeii and the Roman Villa at LACMA

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 22:36 in reviews, antiquities, pompeii, lacma

  Michele Amodio's Pompei, nd (book)I thought I'd post a few pics of the Pompeii show at LACMA that opens Sunday and runs through the first part of October. It's an amazingly big show; I counted 160 pieces, mostly from Museo Archeologico Nazionale di N...

• Via Lewandowsky's Frozen Limbs Break Easily at LACMA

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 02:00 in Germany, lacma, via lewandowsky, autoperforationists

  Via Lewandowsky, Gefrorene Glieder brechen leicht, 1988Berka (acrylic) on Canvas (on wood) at LACMAI've been posting on the Art of Two Germanys; here's my first take on the show's narrative, here on Sibylle Bergemann's photography and political art, ...

• Robert Storr's Third Way at LACMA's Two Germnys†

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 02:28 in political art, Germany, lacma, robert storr

  Life in Vence: Robert von StorrRobert Storr spoke at LACMA as part of their ancillary events for the Two Germanys exhibit. Part of my interest in attending was due to Storr’s history as a curator at MOMA, dean at Yale, and more vividly, instigator ...

• Francis Alÿs' Fabiola at LACMA

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 03:29 in lacma, saint fabiola, dia art foundation, francis alÿs

  Francis Alÿs' Fabiola at LACMA: Detail of InstallationOn the third floor of LACMA's Ahmanson building is Francis Alÿs' installation of his collection of Saint Fabiola paintings. Saint Fabiola was a wealthy Roman matron who converted to Christianity...

• LACMA Unframed

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 03:57 in lacma, art bloggers

  The View of Mt. Lee from BCAMLACMA's Unframed (in the links on the right) is doing a better job than most of bringing their cyberselves into the 2.0 future.I thought I'd post some recent pics I took on LACMA's campus along with links to their posts o...

• The Multi-Valient Narratives of Two Germanys

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 03:42 in art, Germany, art history, lacma, parataxic distortion, nazi past

  A Detail of Eli Broad's Haacke donated to LACMAI expect there will be more than one post here on LACMA's The Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures, on display on the middle floor of the BCAM at LACMA through April 19th. The show is very good, and wo...