Around the art blogs
January 7, 2009 | 11:15
am
David Hockney, "Beverly Hills Housewife," 1966
- LACMA's Unframed is pondering wallpaper in an upcoming show.
- Culturegrrl is campaigning against museums selling art from the collections to pay the light bill.
- Lawyer Donn Zaretsky at the Art Law blog is campaigning in favor of museums selling art from their collections to pay the light bill.
- At Looking Around, Time's Richard Lacayo is charting a middle way on the issue of museums selling art from their collections to pay the light bill.
- Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes joins the chorus of fond remembrances of the late L.A. music patron Betty Freeman, but with a twist--considering the art she collected, including the David Hockney masterpiece featuring Freeman, above.
- C-Monster falls under the hypnotic aesthetic spell of the Porno Burrito.
- TryHarder brings a camera to an opening and performance at 533 in downtown L.A.
- Greg.org looks forward to a particular work in the Martin Kippenberger retrospective, which just closed at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, arriving in New York at the Museum of Modern Art.
- Exhibitionist notes an emerging push for President-elect Obama to consider naming a secretary of the Arts.
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art is surveying its blog-readers on how they use IMAblog.
--Christopher Knight
Image credit: David Hockney
Porno burrito + Vija Celmins Night Sky brownies=A state of divine grace.
Posted by: C-Mon | January 07, 2009 at 01:23 PM
Tyler's post on Betty Freeman is a must read.
Posted by: fred Hoffman | January 07, 2009 at 02:55 PM
So, let me get this straight. The Hockney is part of the wallpaper show, right?
Posted by: Donald Frazell | January 07, 2009 at 08:51 PM