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Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ed Kienholz, Dorothea-Tanning, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Louise Bourgeois, Lacma, LA Louver Gallery, Lee Miller, Jose-Clemente-Orozco, Arts News
Edward Goldman

So, here she was: one female artist versus three super-macho colleagues. And you know who won the battle? Yes, you guessed it right: Frida left the boys in the dust.

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Jason Martin at L.A. Louver

Tracey Harnish | Posted 10.17.2011

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Be Warned: You Can't Operate a Vehicle After Watching This Video

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Artists, Art Talk, Edward Goldman, Kcrw, Npr, Michelangelo, Sol Lewitt, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museum, LA Louver Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, Arts News
Edward Goldman

A good fellow American, and a faithful listener of Art Talk on KCRW, sent me a link to a Vatican website with a 360 degree panorama of the Sistine Chapel. For the next hour, wild horses couldn't have driven me away from the computer screen.

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The Best and Worst of 2010

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Fowler Museum, Auguste Renoir, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lacma, Jancar Gallery, Alberto Burri, Npr, Uta Barth, Eva Hesse, Dennis Hopper, The Hammer Museum, The Getty, Kcrw, Los Angeles, LA Louver Gallery, 1301 PE, Arshile Gorky, Fashioning Fashion, Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Edward Goldman, Artists, Art, Nick Cave, Museums, Joan Mitchell, Moca, Gagosian Gallery, Pierre Picot, Art Talk, Arts News
Edward Goldman

On a personal level, I want to say "thank God" that the year 2010 is coming to an end, but artistically speaking it was definitely a year to remember.

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Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gertrude Stein, Laurie Anderson, Michael McMillen, Music, Laurie Anderson Musician, Michael McMillen Artist, LA Louver Gallery, Arts News
Peter Frank

"What are masterpieces?" asked Gertrude Stein in the very title of one of her best known books. "What is mastery?" she could have been asking. Can one...

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Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael McMillen, Filmmaking, LA Louver Gallery, Visual Art, Arts News
John Seed

Michael McMillen's shifting and overlapping job descriptions -- sculptor, installation artist, printmaker, cultural anthropologist -- reflect the fact that he is a searcher, never quite sure what he is looking for.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Alice Neel Inspires At LA Louver

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alice Neel, LA Louver Gallery, Paintings, Slidepollajax, Arts News

WHO: Alice Neel WHAT: 'Paintings' WHEN: May 20 - June 26, 2010 WHERE: L.A. Louver 45 N Venice Blvd Venice, CA 90291 WHY: The exhibition includes...

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Plan ForYourArt May 20-22

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blum and Poe, Tim Hawkinson, Foryourart, The Red Book, Gilda Frantz, Hammer Museum, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Ed Moses, Pacific Standard Time, Mark Bradford, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Jim Shaw, Moca, Ferus Gallery, John Baldessari, LA Louver Gallery, Alice Neel, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles. People from all over the world came to LA for the opening of the...

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Gwynn Murrill: Animals

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contemporary Art, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Art Galleries, Sculpture, Los Angeles News
Peter Clothier

Murrill's animal sculptures are much closer to monochrome abstraction, in the painting world, than they are to realism. The surfaces of her bronze works are meticulous, smooth and seductive.

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Fear And Faith: The Art Of Rebecca Campbell

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, La-Louver-Gallery, Kimberly Brooks, Ghosts, Rebecca Campbell, Said the Lady to the Man, Female Artists, Painting, The Inner Life, Poltergeist, LA Louver Gallery, Memories, Home News
Kimberly Brooks

There is a passage in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables that makes me think of Rebecca Campbell's installations and paintings -- both are at once familiar and menacing.

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