In the past day or so, The Getty has been uploading a host of short, narrated overviews of objects in its collection to its YouTube account. Some of them, like Titian’s Portrait of Alfonso d’ Avalon, Marquis of Vasto, in Armour with a Page, one of my favourite paintings in their collection, is [...]
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I used to hate fire extinguisher graffiti but then I realized the purity of it, the ejaculatory, infantile, primeval joy of it, and now I like it even more. There’s an inevitability in Katsu’s MOCA piece, that his tag is speaking for a lot of other writers and graffiti lovers here. Someone get [...] My visit to LACMA during Spring Break! Woo! Woo! 2011! was particularly fruitful. The stars aligned and I kept hitting high notes over and over again. Anyways… The piece above is John Outterbridge’s John Ivery’s Truck: Hauling Away the Traps and Saving the Yams. If my memory serves, it may be one of [...] Just when I thought I had exhausted the total supply of severed heads in LA museums, LACMA shines through. I was double lucky (or bi-winning, as we say these days) on this find, as I arrived at LACMA just after they rotated the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of netsuke in the Japanese [...] This is interesting, MOCA-latte.org, a website devoted to developing a critical dialogue regarding Art in the Streets, MOCA’s upcoming, “inevitably criticized” exhibition. They’re sending out stickers allowing you to play the part of Jeffrey Deitch, “approving” or “disapproving” of various pieces of street art out in the wild, they have a forum, a [...] Tonight Gateway: Japan opens at the Torrance Art Museum, a gathering of Japanese and American artists curated by Yuko Wakaume, Ei Kibukawa and Max Presneill. Among the American artists in the show, three of them, Jocelyn Foye, Macha Suzuki and Devon Tsuno number amongst my favourite people and artists. I spent yesterday previewing [...] Currently on view at LACMA. This thing is hypnotic. Sure, you could just browse my Flickr set for all the best bits and lie to your friends that you saw the show, but really? You’ve got the time. LACMA’s fashion collection is one of LA’s most hidden gems and I’m hoping that the new addition of space at LACMA creates more opportunities [...] I am so gonna steal this “elongated body tiger line drawing” for some future project. That’s real style, there, just lovely line work. Hollow Brick with Tigers and Bi Disk, from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-225 CE), from the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Side view & label. When [...]
Going through the archives of the unposted, found netsuke I hadn’t posted or written about before… I’m pretty sure there’s probably 100 more where these came from. LACMA does a great job of rotating the netsuke in the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, so I’m not sure if any of the netsuke in this post are currently on view, but all of these were on view in August of 2010. The teeny, tiny gun at top is by Murusada, of whom I know nothing about. I don’t know if it works, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it did. You can see all 18 of the netsuke posted today here on Flickr, all of my netsuke images here, and a little focus on some more great ones below the break. |
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