That’s a Hemingway classic 
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MOCA LA today. In order: Rothko, Pollock, John Cage (I had no idea he did anything other than compose), and of course Basquiat. And a bonus piece of work by someone named Nayland Blake that makes me do an impression of my dad - puzzled and skeptical.
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got to see Nederlands Dans Theater in the city last night.
idk anything about ballet or dance but a friend turned me on to this company a few years ago and after being blown away the first time, I’ve been keeping track when they come back to town.
This is a short promotional vid of the last of the three pieces they did.
thought they were incredible as always, so the best part might be this review from the NYT that is just savage
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Rothko et all got a lot of “puzzled and skeptical” responses…
An interpretation: what we see as most pure and as most processed all exist in nature.
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Definitely speaks to the subjectivity of art because I love Rothko in a similar way to Serra - I can’t explain it, but it makes me feel something. Maybe the steel pole thing has a similar impact on somebody else, I guess it must. Vive la difference!
The piece by John Cage does not photograph well, it’s very cool in person.
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When I was at Petersen years ago they had a Bugatti exhibit. Not just the cars but furniture, musical instruments, sculptures, and other stuff designed by various members of the family. Until then I had no idea it was a familial talent spanning several mediums and generations.
Under the title of “The Art of Bugatti”, the museum is showing the work of the entire Bugatti family: automobiles by Ettore and Jean Bugatti, furniture, design objects and paintings by Carlo Bugatti, animal sculptures by Rembrandt Bugatti and much more.
They also ran an exhibit called Precious Metals which had some interesting cars in silver metallic finishes, but surrounding those was an oddball collection of reimagined Ed Ruscha works by Vik Muniz apparently made of salvage car metal. There were two pieces: the original work which was smaller (and way cooler) and then photographs that were post-processed and blown up. You can see one of each in this photo.
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seems good
… the Broad, the popular contemporary art museum that opened across the street from Disney Hall in 2015, announced last month that it was about to begin a $100 million expansion.
And it was very much a continuation of the vision of its founder, Eli Broad, the businessman and philanthropist who played a key role in the effort to create a center of gravity in a famously spread-out city by transforming Grand Avenue into a cultural hub. Broad, who died in 2021, helped to establish the Museum of Contemporary Art and get Disney Hall built before opening the Broad to house his own art collection.
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In another promising development, the Colburn School for music and dance just broke ground on a Gehry-designed expansion to its downtown campus that will include a 1,000-seat concert hall.“There is a need for a medium-size venue in the heart of the cultural district,” said Sel Kardan, the school’s chief executive and president, adding that he hoped the stage would be used during the upcoming Olympics.
And the Los Angeles tourism board has focused its latest — and largest — ad campaign on art and culture. “Most people don’t know that Los Angeles is now home to the most museums and performing arts venues in the country,” said Adam Burke, the board’s president and chief executive.
The few comments from locals aren’t enthusiastic though.
Anyway. The Broad is an interesting museum. The price is right and the space is beautiful, for sure.
lol @ many of those comments. Some of those probably have points well-taken (would $100M toward supporting emerging artists do more for art than expanding the Broad? I don’t know, but probably!) but the “downtown LA is a dystopian nightmare unreachable without two days’ travel” is absolute horseshit. As I posted above, I was at MOCA a few days ago. After MOCA we went to the Arts District, which was absolutely humming with activity, people on the streets etc. And we go to Little Tokyo all the time. Downtown is probably my favorite part of LA.
RE: The Broad, the biggest knock imo was that it was too small. So this will be great. It’s next to Disney Hall, across the street from MOCA, easy walking distance to Grand Central Market.
Something to add to the list
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I had the opportunity a few years back to buy a ‘Mr Brainwash’. It was around 10K but I was interested just on the sole basis that if this really happened to be Banksy it would be a steal if that ever became a fact. I didn’t pull the trigger because 10K is a shit ton for me to take on a punt. However probably would have still been good business ultimately.
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the comparison to Banksy is apt. and it looks like it would have been a decent purchase, but art as investment is rarely going to end well. have heard on multiple occasions some version of, “you better like what you buy bc you’re probably going to end up looking at it for a while” especially if you’re going to hold out for a profit
this seems like a decent visit tho
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spring and fall are the silly seasons for art auctions with stuff regularly having 7 and 8-figure estimates. this season starts at 630 pm est with these two successive auctions at Sotheby’s
this piece is coming up in the first auction with a low estimate of $7,000,000
and this work in the second auction has a low estimate of $20,000,000
you can watch if you need yet another reason to finish building that guillotine
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Nice painting and another illustration that a lot of people have way too much money
That thing is a turd
Went to the main Denver art museum and it was surprisingly good (oil and gas money?). It was for a work function and we had after hours access for a reception. While everyone else was drinking I hung out with the Monets, Pissarros etc by myself; it was glorious. Usually when I see Monets I am surrounded by a million tourists and kids being loud. I got to take them in slowly and quietly.
That’s a VG as I’m sure many of you nerds can tell
Extreme closeups!
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hell yeah
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