The J. Paul Getty Museum Presents Gordon Parks’ Flavio Story July 9 – November 10, 2019 Gordon Parks was the most accomplished black American photographer, whose major works were produced from 1940-1970. His camera focused on civil rights struggles, poverty, and African-Americans. An accomplished, filmmaker, composer, writer, and
The problem of a performance artist’s legacy is not limited to the solo artist whose biography and distinctive persona are central to their work. As discussed in my last essay these performances cannot be recreated or performed by anyone else after the individual artist’s demise,
May 2 through June 22, 2019 At Fahey/Klein Gallery Whimsical, pithy, potent and mystifying, Mary Ellen Mark, Photographs, an exhibition of works, has some of her masterpieces and a few surprises. The gallery celebrates the photographer’s unique eye for documentary photography and portraiture with a taste for
May 23-July 14, 2019 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House and a stunning view of the Hollywood Hills create a beautiful backdrop for the LA Municipal Art Gallery and, by default, its most recent exhibition; a multi-media group show of new
When does autobiography become memoir, and memoir become history? This is a question I have been pondering lately in viewing the works of an aging generation of solo performance artists whose work depends on the immediacy and presence of a live audience. What happens when
