“The Sun Is God”: JMW Turner in Los Angeles
J. M. W. Turner would have felt right at home in Los Angeles.
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exhibitions
Bombing the Cathedral of Reims
The battle that launched the culture clash of World War I.
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Larry Sultan’s Visions of Suburbia
On Larry Sultan, intimacy, and photography.
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Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner” Shows Art as Hard Work
“Leigh’s Mr. Turner is a gentleman by social position, but he’s also a brute laborer, with paint-spattered hands.”
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“We Are All the Same”: A Conversation with Josef Koudelka
What makes an artist? Questions for the great Czech photographer.
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Three Ways to Avoid the Freeways: Transport Advice from Apulian Vases
Sick of driving? Hitch a ride on these mythical creatures.
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“I Declare War on All Europe”
A closer look at two propaganda posters from World War I
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Museum Visitors Write the Rules of 21st-Century Chivalry
Visitors common-sense (and sometimes hilarious) rules for 21st-century behavior.
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Art Historians Share Progress on Exhibitions for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Work is in full swing on dozens of Pacific Standard Time exhibitions slated for 2017.
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Peter Paul Rubens Unrolls in L.A.
See how Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous tapestries were installed at the Getty.
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“Where You and Image Blend”: On Learning from Minor White
“Concentration, contemplation, and meditation were at his core whether making, studying, listening, or engaging. He preferred to be alone with silence, spirit, self.”
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Does It Matter If Artists Are Queer?
“Should an artist’s sexuality even be a part of the academic and public dialogue?”
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