2/26/2024 0 Comments Palladian shelfIn 2019, LACMA finished packing up its huge encyclopedic art collection, in anticipation of tearing down much of its campus, and sent most of it off into deep storage. Times art critic Christopher Knight has a mini-dispatch on the whereabouts of Georges de La Tour’s “Magdalen.” Inspired by Dav Pilkey’s “Dog Man” children’s books, the musical has been received ecstatically by kids who show up to productions decked out in costume ready to dance along. My colleague Jessica Gelt has a look at how “Dog Man: The Musical,” currently on view at the Kirk Douglas in Culver City, came to be. That piece too is at the Hirshhorn, fronting the museum on Independence Avenue. (The gesture nodded to a 1931 Parisian expo in which various European metropoles showed off the architecture of the countries they’d colonized.) The show also featured a 24-foot-tall sculpture titled “Satellite” in its exterior courtyard - a female form with rounded head inspired by West African D’mba ritual headdresses. pavilion in thatch, transforming the building’s neo-Palladian façade into a piece of African architecture. Titled “Simone Leigh,” the exhibition features numerous works from her Biennale installation, in which she famously draped the U.S. But I did make it to Washington, D.C., early last month, where I caught Simone Leigh‘s fantastic solo show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. I didn’t make it to the Venice Biennale last year. judicial system and art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with all the essential arts news - not to mention some architecturally significant tinned fish: Leigh’s beguiling hybrids I am currently on jury duty, using the lawyers’ many sidebars to write this newsletter, which is also a sequence of sidebars.
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