Julie and I went to the new BCAM, at LACMA yesterday. Our friend Brian Powers worked on the project. It is a Renzo Piano. The Modern/Contemporay art was interesting - Koons especially. Although, the building, the excalator, the elevator - all over-sized and fun to explore - really stole the show for me.
After exploring BCAM, we went into the "Phantom Sightings" exhibition. This was a highlight for me, as it illuminated a lot of my own experiences and aethetics with Los Angeles. I appreciate how this show was very collaborative - all the artists worked together on it, created music playlists (something that I love!). There was everything from paintings on plywood, to oversized "quincejare and wedding buckets", to paintings done with glittery car paint - all overwhelmingly said LA to me.
Julie and I had never been there. LACMA is a huge complex. We really only had the energy for BCAM, the Phantom Sightings Show, and the Philip-Lorca photographs (also an LA artist - who captures people and place really well), but there is photography, classic paintings, and Japaness art that we hope to see in the future.
We did wonder around the grounds and see the Tar Pits - saw the whooly mammaths and sabor toothed tigers! Imagining a "wild" LA never seemed so real :)
After exploring BCAM, we went into the "Phantom Sightings" exhibition. This was a highlight for me, as it illuminated a lot of my own experiences and aethetics with Los Angeles. I appreciate how this show was very collaborative - all the artists worked together on it, created music playlists (something that I love!). There was everything from paintings on plywood, to oversized "quincejare and wedding buckets", to paintings done with glittery car paint - all overwhelmingly said LA to me.
Julie and I had never been there. LACMA is a huge complex. We really only had the energy for BCAM, the Phantom Sightings Show, and the Philip-Lorca photographs (also an LA artist - who captures people and place really well), but there is photography, classic paintings, and Japaness art that we hope to see in the future.
We did wonder around the grounds and see the Tar Pits - saw the whooly mammaths and sabor toothed tigers! Imagining a "wild" LA never seemed so real :)
4 comments:
This looks like so much fun! And the pics are awesome, Greg! Love the vibrant colors of the place.
Does the label "Phantom Sightings" refer to the whooly mammoths, or to Greg;s moustache? Maybe they are all one in the same.
it's been fun reading through your latest posts and seeing what you do in LA-land!
woah! the first time i looked at this post i totally missed the dirty 'stash! but today at 5:26 a.m. it jumped out & grabbed me! i'm gonna have to point this out to josh when he wakes up--see what he thinks. i bet he'll leave a comment. did you grow the moustache in order to get more comments? if so, i need a trick like that! all that said, it's really not that bad, or that 'dirty', for that matter. if a man is capable of growing facial hair, he should try out all his options. good work!
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