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Ever More Netsuke @ LACMA
Going through the archives of the unposted, found netsuke I hadn’t posted or written about before… I’m pretty sure there’s probably 100 more where these came from. LACMA does a great job of rotating...
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Tigers @ SMBA
I am so gonna steal this “elongated body tiger line drawing” for some future project. That’s real style, there, just lovely line work. Hollow Brick with Tigers and Bi Disk, from the Eastern Han...
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Last Week to Get Your Butt To LACMA for Fashioning Fashion
Sure, you could just browse my Flickr set for all the best bits and lie to your friends that you saw the show, but really? You’ve got the time. LACMA’s fashion collection is one of LA’s most hidden...
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Gateway: Japan @ Torrance Art Museum Tonight, March 26, 6-9pm
Tonight Gateway: Japan opens at the Torrance Art Museum, a gathering of Japanese and American artists curated by Yuko Wakaume, Ei Kibukawa and Max Presneill. Among the American artists in the show,...
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Art in the Streets is Coming to MOCA, Do You Approve? MOCA-latte.org doesn’t.
This is interesting, MOCA-latte.org, a website devoted to developing a critical dialogue regarding Art in the Streets, MOCA’s upcoming, “inevitably criticized” exhibition. They’re sending out...
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Tiny Severed Heads at LACMA
Just when I thought I had exhausted the total supply of severed heads in LA museums, LACMA shines through. I was double lucky (or bi-winning, as we say these days) on this find, as I arrived at LACMA...
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In the Beginning, There Were Yams
My visit to LACMA during Spring Break! Woo! Woo! 2011! was particularly fruitful. The stars aligned and I kept hitting high notes over and over again. Anyways… The piece above is John Outterbridge’s...
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Katsu @ MOCA, Art in the Streets Gets Real
I used to hate fire extinguisher graffiti but then I realized the purity of it, the ejaculatory, infantile, primeval joy of it, and now I like it even more. There’s an inevitability in Katsu’s MOCA...
View ArticleGetty Collection on YouTube
In the past day or so, The Getty has been uploading a host of short, narrated overviews of objects in its collection to its YouTube account. Some of them, like Titian’s Portrait of Alfonso d’ Avalon,...
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