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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

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Edward Steichen, A Much Screened Lady-Gloria Swanson, 1924

Nickolas Muray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, 1929
Images courtesy lacma/Conde Nast Archive
Currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an extensive collection of of portraits from the Conde Nast Archives. The exhibition brings together rare vintage prints from the magazines early [...]

Oranges and Sardines, Conversations on Abstract Paintings

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Paul Klee
Currently on View at the Hammer Museum is an exhibition of Abstract Paintings. What makes this ‘conversational’ is the concept for the show, which allows 6 contemporary abstract painters to choose the works that inspired their own paintings. Our artists included in the dialogue are: Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Any Sillman, [...]

GOUGE: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now

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Edvard Munch
Kyss IV
1897-1902

Emile Bernard
Crucifixion from L’Estampe Originale, no. 5
Janurary – March 1895
Images Courtesy Hammer Museum
Opening today at the Hammer Museum in Westwood is an excellent show centered around the art of The Woodcut.
The art of woodcutting dates back to ancient times in China and Egypt. With the development of paper in China [...]