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This exhibition is much more than the sum of its parts. Entering Gagosian’s Beverly Hills gallery to experience (or, in a couple of cases, re-experience) twenty-seven works produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1982 and 1984 in Venice, California—reunited not too far east of where they were made, and even less west of where they were first shown—was not what I had anticipated.
Ben Lanzarone, the composer, arranger and pianist who wrote music for Dynasty, Happy Days and Mr. Belvedere, has died. He was 85.
One of the singular accomplishments of Ed Ruscha’s long and varied career is to bring the hyperbolic image of the American billboard down to its actual size. Whether revealing the ass-end of the Hollywood sign or the lateral sprawl of Manifest Destiny down to its cinematic Sunset end, he’s served as sardonic witness to the country’s love/hate, super/under-sized relationship with itself.
The collection of late art patron Chara Schreyer will go on the auction block this November.
Harrison Tenzer has joined leading global talent, entertainment, sports and advisory company UTA as senior director of UTA Fine Arts and UTA Artist Sp