Our critic Allon Schoener has been: Director, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center; Consultant, The Library of Congress; Guest Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Director, Museum Aid Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Curator, San Francisco Museum of Art; Guest Curator and consultant, Smithsonian Institution; Assistant Director,The Jewish Museum, New York; Project Curator, United Nations Vienna Center.
For anyone who was on the scene in New York in the 1950s through the 1980s, Roy Cohn was an inescapable malevolent presence. He was juicy copy for... Read more →
Buried by Vesuvius, Treasures from The Villa Dei Papiri, The Getty Villa’s current exhibition, through October 28, 2019, is a legitimate exercise... Read more →
Remembering I.M. Pei When I heard that the internationally acclaimed modernist architect, I.M. Pei, died on May 16 at the age of 102, I lamented... Read more →
While watching the announcement of Green Book as Best Picture at the Academy Awards ceremony on TV, I saw a platoon of white dudes in penguin suits... Read more →
Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983: Archive Project No. 1, on view at the Hauser & Wirth galleries in the Los Angeles Arts District, is... Read more →
Alexander Calder was one of the most important American artists of the first half of the 20th Century. A third generation American sculptor, his... Read more →
For those of us enamored of the Western European art tradition,The Getty’s current exhibition, Renaissance Nude, is a bonanza. Donatello,... Read more →
Ai Weiwei’s current exhibition introduces this international superstar artist to Los Angeles on a grand scale. An acclaimed architect, draughtsman,... Read more →
This is an astonishing exhibition - the caliber of exhibitions that one might expect to see in great art exhibition venues such as: Petit Palais in... Read more →
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