Art Talk

By KCRWArts Visual Arts

Art Talk episodes

October 28, 2011 PST: Now Dig This!
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp takes us to UCLA's Hammer Museum for Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980.
5 min
October 26, 2011 Happy Memories Are Here Again
A few weeks ago, in my Art Talk, I shared with you the story of an unusual collaboration between Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode that took place in the late 1980's. The project...
5 min
October 21, 2011 LA Art from Nixon to Reagan: PST's 'Under the Big Black Sun'
For weeks, I've been talking about Los Angeles art of the 1960's, art made of light and colored plastic, even Pop art, art produced during period of prosperity in Southern California...
5 min
October 19, 2011 Art, Sex, and Rock 'N' Roll
Have you ever seen a first-rate theater performance, sitting front and center, close
to the stage? That's how I felt walking through the smart, captivating, and
elegantly installed...
5 min
October 14, 2011 PST's 'Artistic Evolution:' Art among the Dinosaurs
Before the Museum of Contemporary Art, even before the L.A. County Museum of Art, large art exhibitions in this city were held at what was then called the Museum of Natural Science...
5 min
October 12, 2011 Is It a Bird, Is It a Plane? No, It's Ed Ruscha!
Okay, make fun of me. With hundreds of Pacific Standard Time exhibitions — or is it thousands? — non-stop, 24/7, all over town, I desperately needed an escape....
5 min
October 11, 2011 PST's 'Phenomenal: Light and Space in San Diego'
In the 1960's, artists everywhere were experimenting with ways to move beyond the traditional disciplines of painting and sculpture. In Southern California, many of them...
5 min
October 05, 2011 Portrait of LA by City's Better Angels
Just in time for an explosion of exhibitions in museums and galleries all over Southern California, two new art fairs were launched in LA last week...
5 min
September 30, 2011 PST at the Getty
With all the discussion of Pacific Standard Time, the contributions of
the Getty Museum have not really come into
focus. As of October 1, the focus will be clear....
5 min
September 28, 2011 Dressed to Kill For
For us, Angelinos, intrigued by the city’s ever-changing art scene, this week will test our endurance... There are major exhibitions opening at four different museums plus...
5 min