Museums Category

Salomón Huerta and David Pagel at MOCA Artist Talks

Salomón Huerta – Ego, Destruction, and Facebook from The Art Reserve on Vimeo.
Featured at MoCA last Wednesday, Los Angeles art critic, David Pagel goes one on one with figurative painter Salomón Huerta, a Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA. Huerta, who is known for his back [...]

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Artist Salomón Huerta to discuss his methods tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

Artist Salomón Huerta has an ironic style of creation that involves destruction. Huerta will be joining Zócalo at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on Wednesday, July 14 to discuss his artwork at the event Ego, Destruction, and Facebook.
Huerta is known for his paintings of the backs of people’s heads, commonly styled homes and masked [...]

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Mark Bradford and Getty Museum promote Open Studio for Art Educators

Mark Bradford and Getty Museum promote Open Studio for Art Educators from The Art Reserve on Vimeo.
Los Angeles based artist, Mark Bradford and Getty Museum introduce the new online art eduction program offered to art educators called Open Studio. The program functions as a dual effort to bring contemporary artists into building new foundations for [...]

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James Gilbert at Dallas Contemporary

Art This Week-Dallas Contemporary-James Gilbert-February 16, 2010-Ep. 35 from Richard Serrano on Vimeo.

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Tweet Museum: Museum of Modern Tweets

For all you twitter followers and fiends, a great collection of drawings by LA/NY artist, Odessa Begay, has presented a literal translation of celebrity tweets into a visual showcase. In just a 140 characters, Twitter has become a viral news sources to many media degrees, all the while, Odessa’s drawings have become the new political [...]

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Bad At Sports Interviews Jeffrey Dietch

This week Jeffrey Deitch interviewed by Carlo McCormick!!! Recorded before a live studio audience at the BAS apexart show “Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it is Raining.”
Carlo McCormick is a leading New York art writer and a champion of “the downtown scene”. For almost decades Jeffrey Deitch has been perhaps the most important [...]

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Centre Pompidou presents Lucien Freud

Exposition Lucian Freud, L'atelier au Centre PompidouUploaded by centrepompidou. – Watch original web videos.
One of the greatest living artist in contemporary art history, Lucien Freud, age 88, presents his first retrospective exhibition in France since 1987. The theme of the exhibition is the artist studio, an opportunity to see the development of Lucien Freud [...]

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Whitney Biennial Exhibition Tweet Tour

Join Biennial co-curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and WNYC art critic Carolina Miranda on Twitter for a live, online-only tour of 2010, the Whitney Biennial. Follow along or submit questions directly to the curator before or during the tour by using hash tags #whitneybiennial or #whibi on your Twitter account. Follow the Whitney’s Twitter feed at twitter.com/whitneymuseum.

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Getty Museum opens Leonardo Da Vinici’s Art of Sculpture

Opening this week at the Getty Museum, March 23rd, Leonardo Da Vinici and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention. Leonardo was a master of all trades as an inventor and innovator, however this special exhibition features highlights of sculptures that were never completed. Through equestrian monument drawing plans and engineering theoretics, to ink sketches [...]

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Victoria and Albert: Art & Love, Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace

Opening today at the Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace in London, the first major exhibition of the Royal Collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s love for art and each other. Victoria & Albert: Art & Love focuses on the period of their engagement in 1839 to the Prince’s death in 1861. (“The exhibition also [...]

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Will Kathy Grayson Become the New Jeffrey Deitch?

As reported before Jeffrey Deitch is stepping down from his long and impressive gallerist run to become MOCA’s new lord. The move to MOCA however comes with a major downfall — Deitch must let go of all his galleries and his roster of over 30 artists. That is where 29-year-old Kathy Grayson steps in. According [...]

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Call For Entries – Museum of New Art, Detroit

New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century
Deadline: May 14, 2010
Exhibition Dates: August 6th – September 19th
Museum of New Art invites submissions of research articles, essays, and works in all mediums including but not limited to installation, net-art, video, photography, painting, printmaking, and performance on the topic: New Media, Sex, and Culture in the [...]

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Tate Modern Director Vicente Todolí says Farewell

Artforum.com announced that Vicente Todolí announced today that he has decided to leave London after seven years as director of Tate Modern. In a press release Todolí said, “In my earlier career I worked for seven years in Valencia and further seven years in Porto. It was always my intention to take a pause at [...]

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Exquisite Garden by Joe Brubaker

Exquisite Garden from Nicholas Fahey on Vimeo.
Artist Joe Brubaker’s exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art combines Joe’s work with a collaborative sculpture. Directed and Produced by Nicholas Fahey

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Whitney Biennial Opens!!

Aurel Schmidt, The Fall, 2010. Pencil, colored pencil, acrylic, beer, dirt, and blood on paper, 84 × 48 in. (213.4 × 121.9 cm).
Aside the Winter Olympics games in Vancouver, international art festivities begin in New York with the Whitney Biennial opening today. The Biennial is celebrating the seventy fifth exhibit titled “2010″ presenting a [...]

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Last Chance to Enjoy the Scenery at MOMA: In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Closing this weekend is the In Situ exhibtion on the third floor at MOMA, NY. The exhibition examines the concept of landscape as architecture and how the changing of urban and rural architecture has defined landscape. Now a days, the juxtaposition of architecture and landscape is now united as a whole through environmental design. The [...]

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Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari Announce Whitney Biennale Artists

Pierce Goldberg, son of famed art historian Roselee Goldberg, shot the above film capturing curators Fancesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari orating the names of this year’s Whitney Biennial artists.

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MoMA exhibition of Lithuanian films

The Art Daily announces the first U.S. survey to explore the last 20 years of fiction and nonfiction feature and short films from Lithuania will screen at MoMA December 4 through 13, 2009. Since the Baltic republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Lithuanian filmmakers, unconstrained by ideology and despite [...]

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LA MOCA’s Gaga Gala

After this weekend, you’d never have guessed that only a year ago, Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art was struggling to stay open. Celebrating it’s 30th anniversary, the institution pulled out all the stops for its gala party, drawing red carpet royalty to the event and raising $4 million for the museum. While Angelina Jolie [...]

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