Was it coincidence or destiny when Ai Weiwei couldn’t attend the screening of his film Human Flow at the Hammer Museum in early January due to the cancellation of all flights out of New York? Either way, the artist’s absence immediately sensitized his guests to
September 16, 2017–January 28, 2018 Part—perhaps even the high point—of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, is a spectacular exhibition created by Metropolitan Museum curator Joanne Pillsbury, Getty Museum director Timothy Potts and Getty Center researcher Kim Richter. It’s
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage (July 31, 2017—January 7, 2018) Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, a collaboration between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was curated by LACMA’s Stephanie Barron in collaboration with opera director Yuval Sharon. The exhibition vividly
Fran Siegel: Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil (July 23—December 10, 2017) Fran Siegel’s commissioned work, Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil, features the artist’s interpretation of Egun (or Egungun), the worship of ancestors. The ritual originated in West Africa and was practiced mainly by
When artist Mary Little talks about her upbringing in Northern Ireland, one wouldn’t think she was born and raised in a country steeped for three decades in sec- tarian violence. Instead, she describes an idyllic world: a lovely green landscape with drumlins, boulders, ancient hedges
