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Aleph Naught & the Null Set | June 7th 2009 by Bob Hays
Aviva and I wanted to see the current show “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples” so we dropped Basil at his sitter’s house and drove to the museum. A car with the license plate HEATHER - made me th read more
Fooled by those Foxes at LACMA!
Nice Work | June 4th 2009 by Kevin Atherton
In a previous NiceWork posting (LACMA Christmas Treat, December 5, 2008) we expressed certainty that the surprise sculpture under wraps was a Rodin. Specifically, we thought the figure showing hazily through its thick protective sheath of polyvinyl w read more
Discovering the delights of the LACMA Sculpture Garden - Part two…
Jason in Hollywood | May 31st 2009 by Jason Hollywood
Today is the second installment from my visit to the B. Gerald Cantor Outdoor Sculpture Garden at LACMA.In addition to hosting around ten Rodin and three Bourdelle bronze sculptures, the design of the garden is fairly unique and intriguing.The tran read more
Discovering the delights of the LACMA Sculpture Garden - Part one…
Jason in Hollywood | May 30th 2009 by Jason Hollywood
Right beside the captivating Urban Light installation and visible from Wilshire Boulevard as you drive by is the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden.It's a great little space to walk through, or sit for a while, and appreciate the bronze pieces in the read more
ArtWalk Miracle Mile 2009 Los Angeles
aNEW designs | May 29th 2009 by Daniel Gross
This weekend 12-8. Museums are FREE, art galleries, good times. Learn more at the LACMA site here. Look for me in the afternoon. read more
Urban Light in the Californian sunshine...
Jason in Hollywood | May 28th 2009 by Jason Hollywood
The last time I photographed the iconic Urban Light installation outside LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard the sun was no longer illuminating all of this fantastic sculpture and there was a horrid crane in the background, so I was delighted to find it per read more
NexGen @ LACMA- Free membership and Admission
Daytripping with the 5 and under set | May 27th 2009 by Aracely
I'm always on the lookout for Free Museum Days around town and the NexGen program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)is one that can't be missed. NexGen is a free membership to the LACMA to anyone 17 and under. The NexGen LACMA offers fre read more
Advertising Art
Nice Work | May 9th 2009 by Kevin Atherton
Museums, along with every other institution, are taking a hit in these straitened times; or so I dimly gather from Tweets, weblogs and half-read newspaper articles. Museum investments (the interest on which keeps the Monets on the wall) have taken a read more
Mt. Vesuvius at the Tar Pits: Garden Gnome Edition
Leap Into the Void | May 6th 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
Pompeii and the Roman Villa at LACMA
Leap Into the Void | April 29th 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
Valentino: The Last Emperor, West Coast Premiere
Cyber-Dating Expert | April 2nd 2009
Members of the Costume Council along with guests and a celebrity crowd came for the film debut dressed in style (many wearing the signature Valentino red). The film, directed by Matt Tyrnauer, documents two and a half years in the life of the couture read more
Via Lewandowsky's Frozen Limbs Break Easily at LACMA
Leap Into the Void | March 30th 2009 by Michael Buitron
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, read more
Fifteen top L.A. landmarks to see - Part one...
Jason in Hollywood | March 24th 2009 by Jason Hollywood
In honour of the impending visit by my family in April, I thought I'd do a round up of the various landmarks and must-see tourist attractions around L.A.Whether you're planning a trip to Los Angeles or you already live here and in your busy day-to-d read more
Celebrating Urban Light
Nice Work | March 10th 2009 by Kevin Atherton
We found our complimentary print copy of LACMA’s Celebrating Urban Light waiting for us upon our driveway today. Our joy was audible. You, reader, unless you are one of the chosen few whose cunning snaps of Chris Burden’s Urban Light art read more
Jeff Koons
THE TEMPORARY | March 3rd 2009 by Nicolae Comanescu
Jeff Koons va suspenda o locomotivă în faţa unui muzeu Controversatul artist colaborează cu Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) pentru a realiza cea mai scumpă sculptură comisionată vreodată de un muzeu.Artistul Jeff Koons lucrează la c read more
Urban Light Book
Nice Work | March 2nd 2009 by Kevin Atherton
We were thrilled to learn from the Los Angeles County Art Museum that Lizzie’s photo of the kid running through Urban Light — the wonderful installation by Chris Burden — was one of those selected to grace LACMA’s book about t read more
Robert Storr's Third Way at LACMA's Two Germnys†
Leap Into the Void | February 25th 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
Francis Alÿs' Fabiola at LACMA
Leap Into the Void | February 11th 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
LACMA Unframed
Leap Into the Void | February 3rd 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
lacma and la on speed
Keep a Blog Alive | February 1st 2009 by Rita
So, I think this is my last post featuring pictures of California. The first photos were taken at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA. The second half were taken around Downtown LA at night... from a moving car.I really love this building. read more
The Multi-Valient Narratives of Two Germanys
Leap Into the Void | February 1st 2009 by Michael Buitron
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 read more
St. John of Capistrano
Nice Work | January 23rd 2009 by Kevin Atherton
Around the time Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the Florentine sculptor Santi Buglioni was preparing to be born and enter upon those crucial six or seven years of playing in the mud so necessary to the later career of a ceramist. Around 1550 Sr. Bugl read more
Exploring LACMA (well the sculptures outside at least)...
Jason in Hollywood | January 13th 2009 by Jason Hollywood
For those of you not familiar with the acronym, LACMA stands for Los Angeles County Museum of Art. You'll find it on Wilshire Boulevard, just next to the La Brea Tar Pits. It's another one of those cultural hotspots that you always mean to visit, b read more
Fabiola: 1, Francis Alÿs: 0
Nice Work | January 2nd 2009 by Kevin Atherton
Hurry! Only two more days to take in the exhibit of “artist” Francis Alÿs’s “collection” of “art” depicting “Saint” Fabiola at… well, who cares where it’s at. It’s conceptual. N read more
The Brooklyn Bridge in Stereo
Urban Art & Antiques | December 21st 2008 by Lin
The Brooklyn Bridge was an engineering marvel that changed New York. On completion in 1883, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world, the first steel-wire suspension bridge, and the first bridge to connect to Long Island. The bridge was luck read more
LACMA IV or V
Nice Work | December 20th 2008 by Kevin Atherton
Back in 1991, when Steve Martin made the film L.A. Story, you were still allowed to roller skate through the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Here is Mr. Martin (blurred figure) skating past Guido Reni’s 17th century portrai read more
Return to LACMA: More Netsuke
Nice Work | December 14th 2008 by Kevin Atherton
All right! All right! Calm down! You demand more netsuke and I am forced to comply. Strap on your obi, kids. Here’s the first fob: A Fox Carrying a Drum by 19th century netsukeshi Kaigyo Kusai. It’s made of elephant tooth with a spot of s read more
Marianne Hunter: Exquisite Enamels
For The Love Of Jewels... | December 10th 2008 by Naked-Jewelry
Marianne HunterI first saw Marianne Hunter's work at the recent Contemporary Crafts Market in Santa Monica, CA. Marianne's specialty is highly intricate enamel work incorporating precious metals and stones to create glorious, magnificent works that read more
Secret LACMA Christmas Treat
Nice Work | December 5th 2008 by Kevin Atherton
Heh heh. We peeked around a corner at LACMA and saw this freshly delivered package. Now we know what Santa is bringing to the Los Angeles County Art Museum this year: We don’t want to spoil the surprise, but that sure looks like a bronze cast read more
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