A stimulating encounter between two intense performers: Choreographer Elizabeth Streb and wire-walker Philippe Petit engaged in folie-a-deux at Conversations at the Hammer Museum last week.
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6 July 2010
A stimulating encounter between two intense performers: Choreographer Elizabeth Streb and wire-walker Philippe Petit engaged in folie-a-deux at Conversations at the Hammer Museum last week. [...] 18 June 2010
Dance Theatre of Harlem retrospective at California African American Museum closes on July 4 with talk by Artistic Director Emeritus Arthur Mitchell on June 30. [...] 7 June 2010
Charles Atlas, with whom the choreographer collaborated on multiple video projects over thirty years, presented his film homage to Merce — a collage of extraordinary historic footage including Cunningham dancing near to his prime. A real, blasting reminder of what it's all about.
28 May 2010
Patrick Graham "My first memory of drawing was as a child and I remember people talking about me," said Irish artist Patrick Graham at a crowded art talk hosted by his long time representative, Jack Rutberg, at Rutberg's La Brea Avenue gallery. Graham, born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, in 1943, was visiting Los Angeles from Dublin. He continued: "I remember going to find some chalk to draw on the sidewalk. I drew the pope. It was Pope Pius XII so you know how long ago that was. People came to my door and complained. So I started in controversy." "I have an early memory of people asking me to do things I was surprised they couldn't do. I began to get a consciousness of slight differences. The next thing I remember is drawing cowboy hats and guns."
19 May 2010
Now on view at the Skirball Center, where they run top-notch exhibitions, is "The Expulsion," an amazing installed tableau of Adam and Eve driven from Garden of Eden created in 1986 by artist George Segal. The artist, a major player in early pop art, passed away in 2000. [...] 4 May 2010
"It wasn't really about finding something." So claim German artists Ulrike Mohr and Susanne Weck recounting their cross-continental trek in search of a lost panorama, "Die Schlacht um den Reichstag," ("The Battle of Berlin"). The two artist-partners voyaged from Berlin to Moscow at great effort to maybe find the gone-missing circular art [...] 2 May 2010
LACMA’s late-Renoir retrospective only runs for one more week. Get going! [...] 29 April 2010
The U.S. government supports the arts. It issues stamp art. [...] 26 February 2010
arts•meme recommends the upcoming screening of “The Art of the Steal” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art March 9 at 7:30 pm. [...] 14 February 2010
Photographer Lawrence K. Ho’s extraordinary photo of Beijing Dance Academy’s “The Butterfly Lovers” [...] |
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