Blogspot - lacmaonfire.blogspot.com - Los Angeles County Museum on Fire
General Information:
Latest News:
Burn Notice 23 Aug 2010 | 08:00 pm
Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (this blog, not that painting) has moved to ArtInfo. Just click on the new address (blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire) and you're there.
Beach Reading 20 Aug 2010 | 01:22 pm
LACMA's new Alex Katz, Round Hill (small detail above), features a literary product placement: a copy of Troilus and Cressida, specifically the Pelican Shakespeare paperback. It falls into the small c...
Change of Address 19 Aug 2010 | 01:08 am
Next Monday, August 23, Los Angeles County Museum on Fire is moving to ArtInfo. Aside from a design refresh and some heftier servers, nothing will be changing. LACM on Fire will continue to offer a un...
Brooklyn Curators Sign “Work of Art” 16 Aug 2010 | 10:05 am
Followers of Bravo TV's Work of Art may have noted that the Brooklyn Museum's curators have kept the reality show at arm's length. The series' grand prize was of course a one-artist show, and Abdi Far...
The Puzzling Paradox of Broad’s Basement 12 Aug 2010 | 11:43 pm
"If 90% of your work is in storage you need to begin lending it to other institutions. Get art out of the basements." —Eli Broad, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums,...
Glendale and Kitsch 10 Aug 2010 | 09:42 am
Look up "kitsch" in the dictionary — the Grove Dictionary of Art — and you'll find that Los Angeles is mentioned. "Straightforward printed reproductions of famous paintings are not in themselves kits...
National Brotherhood Week 6 Aug 2010 | 10:42 pm
[The Museum of Tolerance promotes tolerance] "just as building health clubs promoted health." —Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Jerusalem branch of L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance, which is built on a...
Mr. Cut-Up 4 Aug 2010 | 10:53 am
New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art is doing a show on Brion Gysin, the artist who's best known for his collaborations with Beat writer William S. Burroughs. An entire room is given over to a lo...
Clara and Louise 31 Jul 2010 | 03:01 am
LACMA has just doubled its representation of pre-1800 women artists. The latest Ahmanson Foundation gift is a still-life by Louise Moillon, Basket of Peaches, with Quinces and Plums (after 1641). It j...
How LACMA Got “The Wrestlers” 25 Jul 2010 | 09:34 am
Thomas Eakins' The Wrestlers is the greatest American painting in LACMA's collection. Amazingly, it was once the greatest painting in two other museums' collections — both of which sold it to raise mo...
