Around the art blogs
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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
