Sam Francis at LACMA: a California original goes global 1
![](https://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/francis-three-606x181-1.jpg)
Though his last productive years were spent in a Santa Monica studio, art fanciers with a taste for the color-laden Sam Francis (1923-1994) paintings had to search out isolated canvases at a couple of local museum installations. With “Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing” (through July 16 at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of ...
He invented ‘happenings’: Allan Kaprow
Jan
15
2018
![](https://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/kaprow-606x181.jpg)
A new gallery exhibition augurs revelations in the early painting and drawing practice of American artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006). Kaprow’s career as a painter began with his study with Hans Hofmann. He focused on the medium from the mid-1940s through the 1950s. During this period, he immersed himself in New York’s downtown scene and made ...
Tattoo you, Jackson Pollock, on your 100th birthday
Jan
30
2012
![](https://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/matt-pollack-606x182.jpg)
Arts writer Mat Gleason walks the walk where the great abstract painter, Jackson Pollock, is concerned. It’s a permanent love story. Gleason, the prime agent provocateur of The Huffington Post arts page, puts it succinctly: “When people ask me who my favorite artist is, I just roll up my sleeve.” Pollock, who died violently in ...