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January 01, 1990 - November 30, 2012 + Art Talk

Bad News Turned Good News listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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. listen Download

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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... listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen

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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 listen

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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. listen

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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 listen

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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...