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Los Angeles, USA
Blum & Poe
Sharon Lockhart
Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 9 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 2754 South La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles 90034
Tel: +1 310 836 2062 Website
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Jeff Koons: New Paintings
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 9 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills Los Angeles 90210
Tel: +1 310 271 9400 Website
Getty Villa
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Dates: 16 Jul 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website
Inaugurating the long-term partnership between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence is the display of the fourth-century BC Etruscan masterpiece The Chimaera of Arezzo. On loan from the Florence museum, which according to Getty museum director Dr Michael Brand “houses one of the most important collections of Etruscan art in the world”, this sculpture forms the centrepiece of an exhibition exploring six centuries of representations of the mythical beast described by Homer as “a thing of immortal make…lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and breathed forth flames of fire”. Accompanying the 80cm bronze are antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loans from such institutions as the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The work was unearthed in the Tuscan town of Arezzo in the 16th-century and entered the collection of ruler and art patron Cosimo I de’Medici. This is the first time the sculpture has travelled to the US. E.S.
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Reconstructing Identity: a Statue of a God from Dresden
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website
Hammer Museum
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90024
Tel: +1 310 443 7020 Website
Chen Qiulin
Dates: 29 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90024
Tel: +1 310 443 7020 Website
Desirée Holman
Dates: 8 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90024
Tel: +1 310 443 7020 Website
Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat Portrait Studio
Dates: 27 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90024
Tel: +1 310 443 7020 Website
Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Paintings of Charles Burchfield
Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90024
Tel: +1 310 443 7020 Website
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical
British Watercolors of the Eastern Mediterranean
Dates: 18 Jul 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Old Master
1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 1151 Oxford Road Los Angeles 91108
Tel: +1 626 405 2125 Website
Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1151 Oxford Road Los Angeles 91108
Tel: +1 626 405 2125 Website
Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 29 Mar 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1151 Oxford Road Los Angeles 91108
Tel: +1 626 405 2125 Website
The Colour Explosion: 19th-century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 22 Feb 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1151 Oxford Road Los Angeles 91108
Tel: +1 626 405 2125 Website
J. Paul Getty Museum
Irving Penn: Small Trades
Dates: 9 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles 90049-1681
Tel: +1 310 440 7300 Website
In Focus: the Worker
Dates: 3 Nov 09 - 21 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles 90049-1681
Tel: +1 310 440 7300 Website
L.A. Louver, Inc
Sean Sully
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 45 North Venice Boulevard Los Angeles 90291
Tel: +1 310 822 4955 Website
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
New Topographics
Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
Dates: 6 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Latin American
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
Heroes and Villains: the Battle for Good in India’s Comics
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Far East
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
From Spoon to the City: Design by Architects from LACMA’s Collection
Dates: 6 Aug 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
Art of the Pacific
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 15 Aug 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
Joseph Beuys: the Multiples
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 30 Jun 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 90036
Tel: +1 323 857 6000 Website
Michael Kohn Gallery
Bruce Conner
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8071 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles 90048
Tel: +1 323 658 8088 Website
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) at the Geffen Co
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years
Dates: 15 Nov 09 - 3 May 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles 90012
Tel: +1 213 626 6222 Website
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Grand Avenue
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years
Dates: 15 Nov 09 - 3 May 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles 90012
Tel: +1 213 621 1749 Website
When MoCA’s dire financial straits were revealed last year—the endowment drained from $20m to about $7m—many thought the much-loved Los Angeles institution would have to shut down or merge with another museum. But this month, following the announcement that fundraising efforts had resulted in $60m for the museum (including the $30m founding chairman and life trustee Eli Broad promised last year to save the institution), MoCA opens a 30th anniversary show celebrating the collection.
More than 500 works will be on view in the largest long-term display of the museum’s permanent holdings, installed in both its Grand Avenue home and its outpost The Geffen Contemporary, which has been closed since last year’s emergency cutbacks. Organised chronologically, the exhibition covers major contemporary movements and artists from 1939 to the present and demonstrates the scope of MoCA’s collection. “We’ve had plans for the 30th anniversary show for many years but it became larger when support from the Broad Foundation allowed us to open up both facilities, at Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary. It went from being a large exhibition to the largest we’ve ever done. The last time we had a show installed across both venues was for the opening of the Isozaki building on Grand Ave and that was over 20 years ago,” says MoCA chief curator Paul Schimmel, who has organised the show.
Highlights include post-war works such as Jackson Pollock’s Number 1, 1949, but the real strength lies in the selection of more recent contemporary work. This includes in-depth holdings of works by Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko, among others, and MoCA’s long-time commitment to collecting the work of California artists such as Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Laura Owens, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray and Jason Rhoades. “Los Angeles artists are part of the DNA of MoCA. They helped found it,” says Schimmel.
MoCA is also hosting a weekend of special events including a gala party to raise for money for the museum lead by gala chairs Maria Arena Bell and Eli Broad, and honorary chairs Larry Gagosian and Dasha Zhukova. Artist Francesco Vezzoli has created a new performance work starring pop singer Lady Gaga and dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet. Entitled “Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again)”, the piece will be performed for the first and only time at the gala and has been commissioned by Gagosian Gallery and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
A comprehensive catalogue of MoCA’s collection and history was finished before the economic downturn, and Schimmel says: “That book was my bible for organising this exhibition.” Titled after a Baldessari work from the collection, This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles features works by more than 150 artists from the museum. Above, Chris Burden, The Big Wheel, 1979
Museum of Latin American Art
Sites of Latin American Abstraction
Dates: 8 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Latin American
Address: 628 Alamitos Avenue Los Angeles 90802
Tel: +1 562 437 1689 Website
Norton Simon Museum
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Dates: 14 Aug 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Curious
Address: 411 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena Los Angeles 91105
Tel: +1 626 449 6840 Website
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 5 Apr 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 411 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena Los Angeles 91105
Tel: +1 626 449 6840 Website
Ingres’s “Comtesse d’Haussonville” from the Frick Collection
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 411 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena Los Angeles 91105
Tel: +1 626 449 6840 Website
Regen Projects I
Marilyn Minter
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 633 North Almont Drive Los Angeles 90069
Tel: +1 310 276 5424 Website
Regen Projects II
Marilyn Minter
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 9016 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood Los Angeles 90069
Tel: +1 310 276 54 24 Website
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