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Art reviews, news and announcements from Edward Goldman. Primary Format : Arts Language : English Also Listed as: City : Santa Monica State/Province : CA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of KCRW's Art Talk Podcasts Methings.com listings of KCRW's Art Talk Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of KCRW's Art Talk Hitting a Nerve: The Anatomy of Beauty and Horror Do you remember the olden days when everyone had a Polaroid camera, and the small color photos our parents took on vacation could be found in virtually every household?  These days, Polaroid technology is almost obsolete, and one can hardly find the film for those instant cameras.  A few people, however, are still continuing their love affair with this medium... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website He Was the Scheherazade of Our Time Last month, at the opening of the Irving Penn exhibition at the GettyCenter, the celebrated 92 year-old photographer was not in attendance.We were told that he hates to fly, which shouldn't come as a surprise,considering his age. Though his exhibition of 210 black and whitephotographs is still on view at the museum, the artist himself is nomore; last week brought the sad news of the death of Irving Penn, oneof the most famous photographers of the 20th century... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Artists on Fire For almost one hundred years, people around the world have known Los Angeles primarily as the place where movies are made. But in the last couple of decades, something else has entered into the equation: a few LA artists have achieved such international acclaim that they've become ourde factocultural ambassadors to the world at large... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Encountering Art, Police Chief Gets Egg on His Face So, what would you think about the LA Police Chief if you heard that hehad expressed support for a controversial public artwork installed infront of the new police headquarters? Would you worry? Rest assured,outgoing Police Chief William Bratton simply hates the eight monumentalbronze sculptures installed at the new LAPD... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Towering Figures, Tumbling Walls Anyone who had the good fortune to know Henry Hopkins (1928-2009), a seminal figure on the California art scene for the last fifty years, would probably agree that he was the epitome of what we call a gentleman scholar.  Even at crowded museum openings, one could always spot Henry ? tall, imposing, impeccably dressed ? charming everyone with his courtly manners... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Thy Garbage I'm not a morning person, so, fortified with plenty of coffee, I usually start the day off slowly by paging through the newspapers to catch up on the latest. Sometimes, a headline jumps off the page with such a good vibe that it instantly snaps me out of the morning doldrums.  Today is one of those days: the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times reported on this year's recipients of the MacArthur Grants, each of whom will receive $500,000, no strings attached.  Among the winner ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Generous Serving of Small Trades If you have the slightest interest in the art of photography orfashion, you will undoubtedly recognize the name Irving Penn, whoseartistic achievements have had a major influence on the contemporaryart scene of the last sixty years. Born in 1917 and still active today,Irving Penn might have started his career as just a fashionphotographer, but he quickly developed a distinctive style which sethis images apart... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So Many Tsars, So Little Time It's been only a couple of months since my last trip to Amsterdam, so there better be a good reason to return so soon for yet another visit. And how could I say no to an invitation to attend the inaugural ceremony for the opening of the Hermitage Amsterdam, the ambitious collaboration between the famous museum in St. Petersburg and its colleagues in the Netherlands? While two previous attempts at branding by the Hermitage Museum – first in London and then in Las Vegas – turned o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abroad, in Search of Art Immediately after coming home from a trip abroad, I like to check out what's happening on the art scene here in my own town, to see if it holds up against the great variety of art adventures I had while traveling. The first day back in LA, totally jet-lagged and exhausted from two weeks of stuffing myself full of art in Europe (oh, poor Edward...), I rushed to the Getty for the opening of the ambitious exhibition of three centuries of French bronze sculpture. It was full of fascinating ob ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collecting, Until Death Do Us Part For those looking for an excuse to step away from the media obsession with Michael Jackson ? and the Sarah Palin sideshow ? here's a good chance to do just that: go see the irresistibly charming documentary about Herb and Dorothy Vogel, the most beloved American collectors of the last half-century, whose unique and inspiring life devoted to art collecting earned them a well-deserved reputation as cultural icons... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beautiful Nightmare What would you say if a nightmare that woke you up in a cold sweat could be described in the most terrifying detail to a great artist who would be able to recreate it in bronze...and I mean it not figuratively, but literally, in bronze. If you are lucky enough to stumble upon the National Archeological Museum while wandering through Florence, you will never forget the encounter with one of its world-famous treasures, the life-size bronze sculpture of the Chimaera, the mythological creature ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paintings Enjoyed by All, Read and Deciphered Only by Few I wonder how many of you would raise your hands if asked, "Who has been to a performance at UCLA's Royce Hall?" I wouldn't be surprised if most of you have been there on a number of occasions to see dance, theater, or a concert. But how many of you know about the museum tucked away down the hill from Royce Hall? I'm talking about the Fowler Museum, where savvy, adventurous Angelenos can find a variety of exhibitions about little-known arts and cultures... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In This Cemetery, Some Like it Hot There were four of us on this warm Friday night; blankets under our arms, plastic bags full of snacks; we were walking down a nondescript stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard after a seemingly endless search for a parking spot. And we were not alone. One could see a few more people on the sidewalk, like us schlepping bags and lawn chairs and headed in the same direction... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the L.A. Art World Summertime, and the livin' is easy...You are probably packing for a trip and looking for a book to read, so here's my suggestion: the recently published collection of essays by Los Angeles art insiders who spill their guts in conversation with Richard Hertz ? himself a consummate insider of the LA art world, with experience teaching at Caltech and CalArts as well as heading the Department of Graduate Studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Naked Truth Truth be told, I haven't yet seen any of the five exhibitions that I want to tell you about today ? though I'm still hoping to catch one of them in New York, and another, if luck is on my side, in Florence.  Two more exhibitions are coming this fall to Los Angeles, so that makes four.  And the last one, the controversial installation of Jeff Koons' sculptures at Versailles, has already closed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's in the Drinking Water in Toledo, Ohio? Five flights, four cities, two countries ? not too bad for a one-week trip, eh?  It was my first trip to Canada, where I spent three days in Toronto and two in Ottawa, followed by even shorter visits to Detroit and Toledo, where I hadn't been before either... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escaping the Dog Days of Summer So, how wasyourLabor Day? Myself, I'm never sure what's theproper thing to do on this holiday ? to honor it with an honest day ofwork or by taking it easy. Even here in Santa Monica it was hot, so Idid my usual and fled to the air-conditioned sanctuary of museumgalleries... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question Looking back at the past thirty years, I see the pattern of my initial reluctance to embrace the technology of the modern world.  First, I had to learn to drive a car, though some of my friends tell me that I still drive like a Russian peasant.  Then, there was an especially embarrassing moment when I heard for the first time the word "fax" and mistook it for, hmmm...an unprintable profanity, and that's how l learned about the existence of fax machines.  When I started to do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twitter as Big Brother? In last week’s program I asked you for advice: ‘To Tweet or Not to Tweet...’ and respond you did – with humor, sarcasm, and good straightforward advice.  To read all the responses posted, visit theArt Talkpage of the KCRW website.  Here are some excerpts... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It Takes a Village to Raise Museum Funds For good, normal folks who might go to a museum only once in a while, museums present themselves in a stately, unhurried, dignified manner.  But if you peer behind the curtain, 'calm' is the last word you would use to describe what's going on there... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website