How do you lift a really heavy rock? First, you need an even heavier crane. Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” — the 340-ton boulder that recently completed an 11-day trek across Southern California — will be lifted into place at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art using a 700-ton crane. [Read more →]

Andy Warhol would have another headline for his scrapbook. The prince of pop art’s portrait of Elvis Presley is set for the Sotheby’s auction block and is expected to fetch $30 million to $50 million.  “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” which shows the King as a cowboy shooting from the hip, will be offered in New York on May 9 as part of a larger Sotheby’s auction of postwar and contemporary art. [Read more →]

New York – da Adnkronos – Mike Kelley, uno degli artisti statunitensi piu’ influenti dell’ultimo quarto di secolo, icona di un’America pungente ed iconoclasta raffigurata con pelouche in stile horror o punk, e’ stato trovato morto nella sua casa di South Pasadena, vicino a Los Angeles, in California. Aveva 57 anni. [Read more →]

Art review: Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor at Charlie James Gallery

for LosAngelesTime Christopher Knight – Seven large-scale assemblage sculptures by Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor merge the playful with the monstrous, such things not always being as separate and distinctive as one might assume. [Read more →]

from www.urbanartcore.eu – Spanish-born twins How & Nosm currently painted a massive mural in Los Angeles! As a part of the L.A. Freewalls project, the mural sticks out a mile and is probably one of the largest murals I’ve seen in the last month [Read more →]

Da Barbara per “Artsblog ”

Gli influssi culturali di East Los Angeles amalgamati con le ispirazioni dell’illustrazione classica giapponese. Ci sono voluti due anni ma alla fine ecco il risultato, “Made in L.A.” è l’ultima fatica di Gajin Fujita, [Read more →]

Il giovane filmmaker inglese Oliver Riley-Smith presenta “Behind The Wall: The Battle for LA’s Murals”, un curato minidocumenatario sulla strana relazione tra vandalismo, graffiti e arte tra le strade di Los Angeles. [Read more →]

The merchant become the director of the Museum Moca of Los Angeles says: «My task is to involve people who are so far from the art exhibition world» di Francesco Bonami  lastampa.it

When just over a year ago Moca, the Museum of contemporary art of Los Angeles, made the announcement that Jeffrey Deitch had been appointed as new director, the art world was startled. It was pretty much as R. V. was appointed Minister of Justice. Never before a so famous art-dealer had crossed the threshold to become as Museum director.

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