Fired up at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 31. Chris Burden's 'Metropolis II' at LACMA A post shared by Texas Visual Art (@glasstire) on Apr 3, 2017 at 12:09pm PDT
LACMA
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I just spent the last week in both Los Angeles and New York, and saw a lot of art.
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If you haven’t already heard, we’re bringing the legendary southern California artist Robert Irwin to Houston on October 17th, for a conversation with Michael Govan, the director of the Los…
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A few years ago, I visited some friends in Aspen during the summer. Aspen has acquired a bit of a douchey reputation, which is unfair because a) it’s beautiful, dry…
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When the Menil Collection snagged independent curator Franklin Sirmans in 2006 to give him a real job as its curator of modern and contemporary art, he had already co-curated such…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art made cyber-news recently when Hyperallergic announced that they were the first museum to join Snapchat. A handful of other museums chimed in that…
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This summer, as you drive around the country, keep your eyes peeled for billboards and other signage emblazoned with gigantic images of art. As part of a cooperative agreement between…
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Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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BlogGlasstire
Los Angeles Now: California-Pacific Triennial, Joel Shapiro, a Mystery Cavern, and more…
In contrast to my recent NY posts, here is a leaner wrap-up of my trip to Los Angeles for bi-coastal balance.
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The LACMA experience was like being in a glowing, sci-fi trance on another planet brimming with strange wonders. The MFAH’s exhibition, however, is embarrassingly lackluster.
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News
DMA Announces Intriguing Museum Priorities: Art, Scholarship, and Conservation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile LACMA’s in-house restaurant recently launched a 45-page “Tasting Water” menu and hired a “water sommelier,” the Dallas Museum of Art is actually taking over half of its atrium restaurant…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bids to Take Over Los Angeles’ Imploding Museum of Contemporary Art
Perhaps forming the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMOCA, and saving two letters!? Talk about merging the two institutions has bobbed to the surface before, most recently in…
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Glasstire
Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisAs senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.…
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BlogOp Ed
Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkQuestions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…
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Robert Irwin’s Portal Park Piece (Slice), 1981, is the choicest strip of bathroom wall a vandal could hope for. It’s eight feet high, spans three lush lawns in downtown Dallas,…