On Imbuing Art with Life and Meaning Julian Rosefeldt: “Manifesto” with Cate Blanchett In writer-director Julian Rosefeldt’s dark, cold, grim, absurd, witty, engaging vision of the world, a sense of idealism—embodied in a quest for the meaning of art and life—prevails undaunted. The film, curiously timely in
The Main Museum Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles Alice Könitz: Circle Chairs, Triangle Chairs (May 7-July 23, 2017) Surely one must consider institutionally-presented work on its merits. In the case of the Beta Main phase of the emergent Main Museum, however, context is the king of meaning.
Pasadena Museum of California Art Interstitial (March 5-August 6, 2017) Craft & Folk Art Museum Material as Metaphor (May 28-August 20, 2017) Bricolage can be regarded as the ultimate modern/post-modern impulse, the collage aesthetic physically applied to everyday life. In the context of artmaking, bricolage is a form of assemblage, but
“Objects are a personification of where people want to go and how they want to live,” said Peter Shire in an interview at his Echo Park studio. If that’s the case, Shire’s chairs and ceramics are the structural supports of a civilization that is self-aware
Artist Zadik Zadikian has created a gallery and studio space where the floors and walls are covered in gold leaf, and much of his exhibited art is created with gold covering. To walk into the large loft space, in a building more than a hundred
