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An exhibition featuring album cover art is bad form, turning our county art museum into a corporate marketing tool.

Being a true account of the day Marcel Duchamp put the West Coast Underground on the culture map by playing chess in Pasadena with the author, who was at the moment an unclothed young woman who would become Hollywood’s funkiest chronicler. 

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Print When an art museum reinstalls its permanent collection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper, perspectives can be freshened, recent scholarship given a platform and surprises unwrapped. Last week, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a permanent collection installation for Modern art — some 250 works by nearly 200 artists. There’s a lot to see. Here are three unanticipated examples. First: Does the name Cecil de Blaquière Howard ring a bell? If not, you’re not alone. U...

On TOSH (2018) published by City Lights Books:  TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. FILMS:  Selected film and tv clips, and full length screening of Aleph (1958-1976) Wallace Berman 7:43’ and a restored film by one Berman’s art world contemporaries. TRT 120 minutes. BIO:   Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World (2019...

Mail art may be the perfect pandemic art form  Learn more about the history of the movement in a retrospective at Winter Parks CFAM One of several excellent exhibitions currently on display at Rollins Colleges Cornell Museum, Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art looks at the secret history of mail art, an anti-fine art movement in which artists, art enthusiasts and conceptual pranksters around the world used the postal service to collaborate and disseminate works f...

The American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on Feb. 22 at age 101, drew on Jewish culture and history for inspiration in celebratory odes and at times of tragedy. The Yonkers-born Ferlinghetti, whose mother, Clemence Mendes-Monsanto, was of Sephardic Jewish origin, was an avid painter in addition to his accomplishments as writer and editor. One Ferlinghetti poem cites the Russian Jewish artist Marc Chagall to express cultural exuberance from disobeying maternal advice. Ferlinghetti’s po...

Biography Ed Moses is an American painter and central figure in the Los Angeles art scene and a key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art. Best known for his eclectic range of abstract paintings, Moses’ work is unified by his interest in transitory processes and the mutability of concepts. His work constantly shifted throughout his career, building off of the theories formulated by the pieces made before. His canvases are formal abstractions using a variety of processes to experiment with surf...