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Art Around Town: Flux Soup
The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Marlene Dumas is as much a stirrer of primordial soup and human emotions as she is a painter, and one of the ways the South African–born, Amsterdam-based artist gets down into the mess of all that soup is via the act of painting itself. As is evident in her… Keep Reading »
Art Around Town: Flux Soup
The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Marlene Dumas is as much a stirrer of primordial soup and human emotions as she is a painter, and one of the ways the South African–born, Amsterdam-based artist gets down into the mess of all that soup is via the act of painting itself. As is evident in her… Keep Reading »
Steve Erickson
Contortionist supreme
By NICK MOORE
Even though I had seen a picture of Steve Erickson, with wavy white hair and a stare that says, “Get to the point, bub,” I still caught myself wondering what he would look like. A ray of purple light, a wildebeest, Poseidon, all of these made more sense than… Keep Reading »
PolterZeitgeist: Bob Rauschenberg Haunts the Huntington
(In a good way)
By DOUG HARVEY
I had heard of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens before I ever came to Los Angeles — not because of its undeniably impressive holdings or phantasmagoric landscaping, but because I knew it as the site of Robert Rauschenberg’s epiphanic encounter with Blue Boy and Pinky while… Keep Reading »
Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight
Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées
By JIM RULAND
This is the week of Bloomsday (June 16), the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is celebrated with scholarly symposia, cultural gatherings and an effusion of finger waving from academics who admonish us for not having enriched our meager minds with the master’s difficult but incandescent prose. Balderdash. This… Keep Reading »
Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No
But students and fearful faculty beg to differ
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
Nathan Cooke isn’t a miscreant. He isn’t a troublemaker or a misguided teen. He is a 26-year-old industrial design major in his final two trimesters at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Cooke’s a good student too — a rare Art Center scholarship recipient and an… Keep Reading »
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Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight
By JIM RULAND
Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées
The Story of a Marriage: Gay Love in the Time of Eisenhower
By MARC WEINGARTEN
Andrew Sean Greer's novel is far from real
Mark Sarvas on His Elegant Variation and the Inelegant Review of Harry, Revised
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
Yes, but can he write?
The Wasteland: Marisa Silver's novel The God of War
By ELLA TAYLOR
On the face of things, Ares Ramirez, the 12-year-old at the broken heart of…
A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement
By ALAN RICH
Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you
Sex and the Country: Do Me and Sex for America
By HILLARY JOHNSON
Two collections of erotica feel us up
Loquat: A Short Story
By ETGAR KERET
Go on, Henri, go talk to them. You’re a gendarme, they’ll listen to you.”…
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Art Around Town: Flux Soup
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
But students and fearful faculty beg to differ
Art Around Town
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Annie Lapin at Angles Gallery; Monika Baer at Richard Telles Fine Art; Yvette Gellis at Kim Light Gallery
Art Around Town: Daniel Dove, M.A. Peers and Takashi Murakami
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LACMA East: "Phantom Sightings" Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
"Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement” begins with photos chronicling the art collective…
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Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves
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