Louise Bourgeois

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

October 26, 2008 - January 25, 2009

Louise Bourgeois in 1990 with her 1970 marble sculpture, Eye to Eye - Photo by Raimon Ramis

Computer rendering of the Clyfford Still Museum

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Christo - "Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado" - 1999

• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Prints and Objects at the CVA on display until November 1st (Do NOT miss this outstanding exhibit)
• In Review: Christo and Jeanne Claude Lecture at the Buell
  

Artist Josh Keyes

At the core, my desire has always been to create images that fix in the mind. There are certain paintings like Van Gogh's self portraits, or Francis Bacon's screaming baboon, or a Hokusai print, that have a lasting trace on the mind. The combination of emotional intensity with a well-composed image is what I strive to accomplish in my work.

David Byrne's Bicycle Racks - Photos: New York City Department of Transportation

The city’s Department of Transportation, in partnership with the art gallery PaceWildenstein, announced today that it had installed nine temporary bike racks designed by the musician and biking enthusiast David Byrne. The nine racks — in shiny red, black and silver — are intended to promote bicycling, which has been a main emphasis of the current transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan.

Artist Daniel Richter - photo by Elfie Semotan for Bloomberg News

Though he has a studio in Berlin, he has kept [his low rent Hamburg apartment] on the so-called "Fleetinsel," a block of old warehouses alongside a "Fleet," the Hamburg term for canal. It's close to a lively square with restaurants, bookshops and galleries.

Richter says many artists live there because the rent is comparatively cheap. He moved there six years before one of his paintings, "Those Who Are Here Again," fetched a record $824,000 in 2007, according to Artnet. Now he uses the apartment mainly for weekends with his theater-director wife Angela and their child.

Victor Vasarely - "Vega-Nor" 1969 (Collection of the Albright-Knox)

The Op Art movement began in the 1950s only to peak in the mid-1960s and fade from the scene due to a lack of critical interest. More recent works by contemporary artists Tim Bavington, Olafur Eliasson, and Susie Rosmarin are also included in the exhibition to illustrate a resurgence of interest in Op Art. Olafur Eliasson’s work Triple ripple, 2004, a spectacular and elegant installation that uses reflective light to interact with both architectural space and the viewer is being exhibited for the first time.

Daniel Libeskind's new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco - Photo by Bruce Damonte, LA Times

Anyone looking for signs that Daniel Libeskind's work might deepen profoundly over time, or shift in some surprising direction, has mostly been doing so in vain. After winning the master-plan competition at the ground zero site in New York in 2003, and subsequently landing commissions all over the world, he seemed content to stamp the same jagged, mournful aesthetic on each of his new buildings, whether it was a museum in Copenhagen or Denver or a condominium tower in Covington, Ky.

Museum director James Steward describes Cloepfil's design as "warm minimalism," adding that the operating visual metaphor for the design was that of a lantern. "From dusk on," he says, "the expansion will emanate light, literally inviting you inside. You'll see people moving through the gallery spaces, as well as up and down the stairwells." And the views of the surrounding campus and city from within, Steward adds, "are going to be unspeakably cool."

Cloepfil's design has already won an award from the New York branch of the American Institute of Architects. The aim is to turn a museum that always felt cloistered from campus life into a mixed-use arts center that will buzz with film screenings, community meetings and lectures 'til the midnight hours -- creating what Steward calls "a civic space."