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Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History's Sidelines
Judy Chicago, the feminist artist and author, is playing to the coasts this month. There is a show of her important early work at Jeffrey Deitch’s gallery in Los Angeles through Nov. 2, and a new series done in painted porcelain and glass called “The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction,” opening Thursday at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. Her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” an epic 1979 installation that imagined a gathering of 39 important women sidelined ...
MOCA in Los Angeles Appoints Mia Locks as Senior Curator
LOS ANGELES — Klaus Biesenbach, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has just made his first major curatorial hire. Mia Locks, best known as co-organizer of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, will join his team as a senior curator in July.A $650 Million Building Jumps a Hurdle
LOS ANGELES — The ever-evolving Los Angeles County Museum of Art has cleared its biggest hurdle to erecting a radical building by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that represents one of the country’s most ambitious museum transformations.
LACMA's $650 Million Building by Peter Zumthor Is Approved
LOS ANGELES — The ever-evolving Los Angeles County Museum of Art has cleared its biggest hurdle to erecting a radical new building by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that represents one of the country’s most ambitious museum transformations.Photo Sharing, Before Instagram
SAN FRANCISCO — The image of a bright-eyed cat with many online lives peers out from a hole in the wall as you enter the new exhibition “Snap+Share” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Frieze Los Angeles: Lights, Camera, Art!
LOS ANGELES — The New York back lot of Paramount Studios, where fake brownstones and town houses mimic city streets, has been invaded by aliens before. But it has never seen anything quite like the bright green serpent that winds all the way from a “SoHo subway station” up through several apartment windows.Shutdown Leaves Uninflated Space Sculpture Circling in Orbit
The government shutdown has caused museums in Washington to close and has put exhibitions like the National Gallery of Art’s Tintoretto show, originally scheduled to open March 10, at risk. It has also endangered an artist’s project nowhere near the Beltway: “Orbital Reflector,” a sculpture by Trevor Paglen that was recently launched into orbit.Bare skin is the canvas for Donna Huanca
LOS ANGELES — For the first time in its history, the recessed, ground-floor gallery at the Marciano Art Foundation looked like the backstage of a women’s fashion show. A clothing rack held odd garments and hair extensions, a model sat having her makeup touched up, and others shuffled around in white robes.
MOCA Los Angeles to end admissions fee
LOS ANGELES — The Museum of Contemporary Art here is planning to eliminate general ticket charges, aligning it with the Broad and the Hammer Museum, which already offer free admission. The policy is being made possible by a $10 million donation by the board president, Carolyn Clark Powers, which was announced at the museum’s Saturday night benefit party.
Venice Beach may lose a landmark: A Mark di Suvero sculpture
The most visible and recognizable artwork on Venice Beach, a 60-foot-tall steel sculpture by Mark di Suvero that has been a popular meeting point for nearly two decades, will be dismantled and trucked to Northern California by the end of this year, according to the artist and his gallery, L.A. Louver.
Stolen-and-found de Kooning to be shown off before restoration
“The FBI has kept this an open case,” Olivia Miller, the Arizona museum’s curator of exhibitions, explained.
Shutdown leaves uninflated space sculpture circling in orbit
The sculpture is not lost in space as much as stuck in a holding pattern before activation, pending clearance by the Federal Communications Commission. According to the artist, it might not survive the wait while FCC workers are on furlough.
