Tag: Hauser & Wirth

• “Give Me Some Moments”: Slow Looking with Lorna Simpson at Hauser & Wirth

  

  We’re living in a time of odd juxtapositions. We’re disconnected from our physical lives while we remain constantly connected to each other virtually. We hoard toilet paper yet remain disastrously wasteful. We covet time, but bemoan boredom. Before Covid-19, we longed for the quiet solitude that comes with less crowded streets, remote working, and quality…

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  May 1, 2020

  Art, Art/Culture, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, Photography, Uncategorized

  Black Artists, Coronavirus, Galleries, Hauser & Wirth, Lorna Simpson, Photography, Virtual Galleries

• Artist a Day: Lorna Simpson

  

  Lorna Simpson’s work body of multi-media work is so diverse it’s too hard to single out just one work for discussion, but I’m picking a piece she created in 2016 that I recently saw at the Tate Modern. Then and Now is an appropriated photo from the Detroit riots of 1967—a screen-printed tableau that’s split…

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  February 26, 2018

  Art, Art/Culture, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, new york, Photography, Uncategorized

  Artist a Day, artist a day challenge, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, Detroit Riots, Ferguson, Hauser & Wirth, Lorna Simpson, Mapping Midpoints, Theaster Gates

• DTLA Gallery Brings a Revolution to the Arts District

  At the beginning of Women’s History Month the National Museum of Women in the Arts asked an intriguing question when they created this hashtag: It was a call to action with a simple challenge:  Name 5 women artists. Can you name them off the top of your head?  Sure that may be easy, but if you walk…

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  March 11, 2016

  Art, art books, Art in Los Angeles, Art/Culture, Collecting, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museums, sculpture, Uncategorized

  #5WomenArtists, abstract art, abstract sculpture, Arts District, DTLA, Hauser & Wirth, Louis Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Phyllida Barlow, Ruth Asawa, Sculpture, Shinique Smith, Women’s History Month, Yayoi Kusama