Category Archives: conceptual art
Quebec’s thriving Art Scene
Organized by the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the Québec Triennial, is situated in its spacious high-ceilinged modern building with bare white walls and no architectural frills – puts a spotlight on Quebec, showing artworks so delightful and of such … Continue reading
Filed under art, art exhibitions, conceptual art, contemporary art, culture, Montreal
Art is Life: Tim Hawkinson at Blum & Poe
I first saw a major Tim Hawkinson exhibition at the Whitney in 2005. The exhibition traced Hawkinson’s steady evolution in meticulously detailed drawings, minute constructions, inflated latex casts, and uncanny mechanical contraptions. Here, I discovered that Tim Hawkinson’s large-scale kinetic … Continue reading
Book Signing: Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting at Book Soup, Los Angeles
<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/IllWorkForArt?i=” type=”text/javascript”> Ed Ruscha signing books at Book Soup Last Saturday evening, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to have the great and famous Ed Ruscha sign his latest book, “Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting” at Book Soup, Los Angeles. … Continue reading
I he[art] Herb & Dorothy Vogel.
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel like the most unlikable art. They own a few inches of frayed rope with a nail through it. A curved lead pipe. A black cardboard square with definition of the word ”nothing” printed on it, in white. … Continue reading
Filed under art, Art Collector, art history, conceptual art, culture, Minimal Art
Favorite Art Shows of 2009
After reading Peter Schjeldahl’s “Eleven Best Museum Shows of 2009″ in the New Yorker, I thought, I too will compile a list. 1. Please, Please, Please, Jeppe Hein, January 30 – March 29th 2009, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2. … Continue reading
Filed under art, art exhibitions, art history, conceptual art, contemporary art, culture, Los Angeles, New York, P.S.1, photography
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