“Modern Antiquity” at the Getty Villa
In 2008-9, the Getty Villa did a Jim Dine installation that occasioned a lot of head scratching. It’s not easy for a contemporary artist to “react” to antiquity and also stand up to it. Now the Getty...
View ArticleGetty Adds Modern Drawings
The Getty Museum is showing four modern drawings bequeathed by L.A. collectors Lili and William Weingarten. They are a c. 1890 Degas bather in charcoal, two colorful works by Fernand Léger (above, The...
View ArticleWhat Perenchio Could Mean for LACMA
For a century at least, Hollywood actors, agents, and moguls have been buying School of Paris modernism. A few assembled great collections; many more assembled weak ones; and the one constant was...
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