Tag: museums

• The Broad: 3 Things I Love About LA.’s Newest Museum

  Some people see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?”~George Bernard Shaw You know, some people may say it is unreasonable to charge a fee to attend an early preview of a museum that still doesn’t have operable indoor plumbing (especially when said museum will be free…

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  February 21, 2015

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, Collecting, Contemporary Art, Design, Los Angeles, Museums

  architecture, BJ Nilsen, Contemporary Art, Diller, Downtown Los Angeles, Eli Broad, Joanne Heyler, museums, Photography, Scoffido & Renfro, Sky-Lit, The Broad

• Keith Haring & The Political Line: Timeless Observations on Politics and Power

  I was in San Francisco during the holidays and was able to experience The Political Line at the De Young Museum.  This retrospective of Keith Haring took a curatorial deep dive into the artist’s creative psyche.  The show highlights his portfolio of work that addresses race, power, sex, political conflict, the environment and technology. This is…

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  January 12, 2015

  Art/Culture, Contemporary Art, Museums, Pop Art/Culture, Street Art

  activism, AIDS, De Young, Golden Gate Park, graffiti, Keith Haring, museums, Pop Art, San Francisco, Street Art, the Political Line, Warhol

• The Most Important Museum You Haven’t Gone To.. (Yet)

  The National Women’s History Museum isn’t even a museum. How is that possible?  On Saturday I attended L.A.’s “Women Making History” Brunch to support and bring awareness to this museum’s heroic efforts to be recognized on the Mall in Washington D.C. Whenever I attend events like this I try to do my homework beforehand:  I pulled the website…

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  August 25, 2014

  Museums

  Grace Murray Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, History, museums, National Women’s History Museum, NWHM, Smithsonian, STEM, trailblazers, Washington D.C., Women’s History

• Herb and Dorothy 50 X 50

  The story of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a postal worker and librarian who amassed a world class collection of contemporary art, captivated both the art world and art outsiders alike.  “Herb and Dorothy” was not just a story of an unlikely pair who paved their own way in an insular art world but it was…

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  September 30, 2013

  Art/Culture, Collecting, Contemporary Art, Museums

  50 x 50, Collecting, Herb and Dorothy, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, Independent Film, MOCA, museums, National Gallery of Art

• Why I Hate Provocation and Why I LOVE Museums

  In what appeared to be a desperate attempt to remain culturally relevant, CNN published an opinion piece by Senior Travel editor James Durston titled, “Why I Hate Museums”.  The essay makes an attempt to stoke the fires among the ranks of museum administrators who apparently don’t do enough to stimulate museum goers. “Worst of all,…

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  August 26, 2013

  Art/Culture, Museums

  Andy Warhol Museum, CNN, De Young, Getty, James Durston, LACMA, MOCA, museums, Norton Simon, Why I Hate Museums

• Urs Fischer @ MOCA

  I have two distinct reactions to exhibitions.  I either love it so much that I immediately come home to write about it, or I sit on the experience and let it ruminate in my mind for weeks.  I went to the Urs Fischer exhibit at MOCA a week and a half ago, and I am…

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  May 9, 2013

  Art/Culture, Contemporary Art, Museums

  Geffen, MOCA, museums, Urs Fischer