on view
Canvases, Collections & Context: exploring the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions shaping the LA art scene
Aaron Morse, “Lights out in the Territories,” at Philip Martin Gallery
In a 2002 interview, the inimitable Kirk Varnedoe — looking back at his tenure as Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA —...
Vigée LeBrun’s Countess Kinsky: A Portrait of Endurance
Idealized visions of young women seated in or strolling through the gardens were a standard motif of aristocratic portraiture. It is easy to see...
Goncharova’s Archangel: Between Icon and Revolution
A jewel of the LACMA's collection, Goncharova's modernist vision of the Byzantine tradition
Rachel Ruysch’s “Nosegay on a Marble Plinth”
on view at the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, CA
Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink & Contemporary Brush
Imagine flying over a mountain range comprised of impossibly tall and exquisitely slender cliffs of granite, void of any sign of life or vegetation....
Inside the Mind of the Master
ichelangelo destroyed up to 28,000 drawings to hide his artistic process and preserve the myth of spontaneous genius. The Getty's exhibition reveals what survived: 28 pages of problem-solving brilliance spanning six decades. These intimate sketches—from the Teylers Museum's legendary collection—show figures twisting off aged paper, confirming the foundation beneath the master's sublime talent.
Blue Boy Gets a Bath
A landscape of broccoli and rocks may not be the most inspired description of the backdrop to Thomas Gainsborough's renowned The Blue Boy (1770),...