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Rips on Art: My Barbarian at MOCA's 30th Birthday Party - Review #4
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009. My Barbarian at MOCA's 30th Birthday Party - Review #4. On Saturday, November 21 The Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles had its 30th birthday party/members opening party for it’s show Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years. To achieve this effect My Barbarian interviewed museum staff, from curators to accountants, and created performance, music and video which directly addressed the institution of the museum. Focusing on issues of transparency, the group used the muse...
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Rips on Art: Long Beach Exposed -Review #2
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Monday, October 19, 2009. Long Beach Exposed -Review #2. When entering the voluminous open space of the first floor one is immediately struck by the monumental yet airy site-specific installation by the Ball-Nogues Studio. Does it have to be made with drywall and be there forever? We’re trying to challenge those ideas.” Stretching the boundaries of architectural practice, Suspension is awe-inspiring in its translucence, ephemerality and complexity. By itself, the work does not clearly articulate this pos...
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Rips on Art: November 2009
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Friday, November 20, 2009. Big Litter" seems to be a collection of photographs of found discarded objects which range from little plastic baggies to feathers and single earrings. The presentation is deadpan, Davis is almost scientifically documenting and cataloging these dirty objects. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. New Topographics Symposium at LACMA - Review #3. This past weekend I attended the symposium “What’s at Stake? And still resonate today. At LACMA, CLUI added a high-definition video of a flight...
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Rips on Art: What about Philip Smith?
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Saturday, October 10, 2009. What about Philip Smith? Just this year the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited “The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984” which was curated by Douglas Eklund. The large show, which featured works by over 30 artists influenced by Pictures techniques, also omitted Philip Smith. Explaining his decision for excluding Smith’s work Eklund disclosed in an interview with Jess Wilcox in Art in America online edition. To Art in America which explained his concern over being written out of P...
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Rips on Art: I've Found Philip Smith!
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Sunday, November 8, 2009. I've Found Philip Smith! Philip Smith was one of the artists involved with the Pictures. Exhibit of 1977. His work was omitted from Douglas Crimp’s critical essay about the show for October. 1979) and thirty years later completely absent from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s retrospective exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984. In a previous post I questioned Smith’s absence from Pictures. Magazine. Last year he came out with a memoir entitled Walking Through Walls. Novem...
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L.A. Art Con Tempo: Twenty Eight: Claremont Graduate University Exhibition
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LA Art Con Tempo. Thursday, October 1, 2009. Twenty Eight: Claremont Graduate University Exhibition. 8220;Twenty Eight” featured twenty eight second year MFA students’ work ranging from painting, installations, performance, video and sculptural art. There was a huge diversity in the types of subject matter and approaches that each artist focused on, creating an exciting and intriguing collective exhibition. Artist, Justin Bower, painted Blue Boy. Artists wanted to free themselves from the overtly politic...
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L.A. Art Con Tempo: December 2009
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LA Art Con Tempo. Wednesday, December 16, 2009. The Constant Struggle to Fight the Museum. Graffiti was barely mentioned when speaking of artists attempt to rebel against the museum. How can this be when graffiti is based on solely this fact and essence? MOCA's 30 Year Celebration. The MOCA is hosting one of its largest shows in celebration of its 30 years as an arts institution. The show is taking place at both their Grant location and at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Piet Mondrian’s work stric...
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Views of Los Angeles: Exhibition Review #2: Calligraffiti
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Views of Los Angeles. Friday, October 16, 2009. Exhibition Review #2: Calligraffiti. 2003 "Chaz" Bojorquez, Keo, Mear, Toons, Zender, and Xu Bing. Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art. D “low art” that typically accompany these artistic mediuma. More alike than different, both calligraphy and graffiti “address issues of power, culture, and universality.”. Pictured above), X. U’s Chinese characters flow so effortlessly into the graffiti “script” that it is often ...Institutional s...
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Views of Los Angeles: Exhibition Review #1: Hadley Holliday
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Views of Los Angeles. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Exhibition Review #1: Hadley Holliday. Y Holliday’s use of stripes, geometric forms and colorful composition. In some paintings, such as Fool's Paradise. Moving beyond their formal beauty, however, Holliday’s works raise some intriguing questions on the direction of painting in the twenty-first century. As Myers alludes to in her review, one cannot view Holliday’s work without wondering “Why a return to stripes in 2009? Buchloh, in contrast, argues tha...
