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January 01, 1990 - November 30, 2012 + Art Talk
Bad News Turned Good News

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There are some situations when it's difficult to decide whether the news is good or bad. A month ago, I read in the LA Times...
The Tenth Muse

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Many years ago, a great American performance artist, Laurie Anderson, famously said that talking about art is like dancing about architecture. The way I interpret...
Tons of Rock, Steel and Art in San Diego

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Last week, I was invited to spend a couple of days in San Diego as a guest of the Museum of Contemporary Art and that...
Museum Crimes and Misdemeanors

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When a museum's name is in the news, it usually spells trouble for the institution. And there's been plenty of it lately. There was...
Jumping on the Art Bandwagon

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I can suggest a number of reasons one might want to stop by the Gagosian Gallery when in Beverly Hills. It's always intriguing to...
Partying with Ancient Greeks

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I wonder, what is your way of keeping cool during the crazy, heat wave that has kept us prisoners these past couple of weeks. ...
Fine Art of Living with Art

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There are two ways of traveling in search of art: one is go to far away places and another, perhaps even more challenging, is to...
The Sweat and Joy of an Artist's Life

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As they say, there is no rest for the wicked. On the Fourth of July, when everyone else was doing as little as possible, I...
From Tel Aviv: Lessons for L.A.

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One of the lingering memories of my recent trip to Israel is of walls; famous ones, like the Wailing Wall, and miles upon miles...
Beguiling, Boastful and Intricate...

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The front-page news about the sale of Gustav Klimt's famous, shimmering gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer for an unconfirmed $135 million made me surprisingly happy....
The Art Treasures in Israel

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Last week, I got high: not once, not twice but more or less all week long. Traveling to Israel with a delegation of art patrons...
Guilty as Charged 
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Today, I---m going to break the unspoken rule of this program. I want to talk about the exhibition of an artist whose work I admire...
Art Is News That Stays News 
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The Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at MOCA continues to fascinate me. Last week I stopped by the Museum to hear Thomas Crow, Director of the Getty...
Scorching Heat of Rauschenberg Summer in L.A. 
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Actually, I don't mind the occasional mangling of phrases by President Bush, or his idiosyncratic pronunciation of 'nu-ku-ler' instead of 'nu-cle-ar.' With my accent,...
What a Tangled Web We Weave 
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The whole weekend I was thinking about an excellent exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum, "The Soci--t-- Anonyme," as the perfect choice for today's Art...