Art Talk
Art in San Diego and LA
Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
AMERICAN ART AND DESIGN OF THE ATOMIC AGE IN SAN DIEGO
CELEBRATING 300 YEARS OF RUSSIAN CULTURE IN L.A.
The year 2002 closed with two major American museum's announcing that their ambitious expansion projects went kaput. Guggenheim suffered a double loss: first, it announced the abandonment of its plan to build a gigantic Frank Gehry-designed satellite in Manhattan; next came news of the closure of the Las Vegas-based Guggenheim museum in the Venetian Hotel. Here in L.A., LACMA officials threw in the towel over their battle to replace the four existing museum buildings with a Rem Koolhaas-designed semi-translucent, but not sufficiently thought-out project. But more about that another day.
"Russia Fest"
January 10 - February 7, 2003
Santa Monica College
Madison Campus
11th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 434-4003
(more Russia Fest events at other SMC locations)
www.smc.edu/schedules/2002/fall/events/
"RUSSIAN ARK"
January 10 - 16, 2003
Nuart Theatre
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard
(just west of the 405 Freeway)
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 478-6379