on view in LA
exploring art of the museums, galleries and other art spaces around the city
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Aaron Morse, “Lights out in the Territories,” at Philip Martin Gallery
The paintings of Aaron Morse offer a multi-layered means of connecting to the past, one that is both personal to the artist's experience and, through that, connects with the artist’s larger questions of ecological concern.
Vigée LeBrun’s Countess Kinsky: A Portrait of Endurance
Idealized visions of young women seated in or strolling through the gardens were a standard motif of aristocratic portraiture. It is easy to see...
Goncharova’s Archangel: Between Icon and Revolution
A jewel of the LACMA's collection, Goncharova's modernist vision of the Byzantine tradition
Rachel Ruysch’s “Nosegay on a Marble Plinth”
on view at the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, CA
Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink & Contemporary Brush
Imagine flying over a mountain range comprised of impossibly tall and exquisitely slender cliffs of granite, void of any sign of life or vegetation....
Inside the Mind of the Master
The Getty's exhibition reveals what survived after Michelangelo destroyed up to 28,000 drawings, a mere 28 pages of problem-solving brilliance spanning six decades, confirming the foundation beneath the master's sublime talent.
Blue Boy Gets a Bath
A landscape of broccoli and rocks may not be the most inspired description of the backdrop to Thomas Gainsborough's renowned The Blue Boy (1770),...