Right on, Lynda!!
 

So, how is it that, when it comes to art education, California comes in dead last out of all 50 states – even below Guam? According to State Councilman Bobby Shriver, California’s public schools no longer even offer arts education. … If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you’re just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids’ hands, and drag them to a museum….

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Lynda Resnick: Why Art Education Matters

Thank you again, Los Angeles Times Culture Monsters:

L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is poised to name its new director Monday morning, and one of the names circulating through the art world is Jeffrey Deitch, a high-flying New York art dealer who, if chosen, would be a radical break from the usual museum-world pattern.

MOCA’s key financial backer, Eli Broad, will present the new director along with the museum’s co-chairs, Maria Bell and David Johnson, and city Councilwoman Jan Perry, the museum announced today.

American museum directors typically come from within the curatorial, academic or other nonprofit ranks. No major art museum in the United States is directed by a former owner of a commercial art gallery…..

Read the complete article at the Los Angeles Times Culture Monsters blog.

Nice summaryof this story by David Ng of LA Times Culture Monster.

Terry Riley, the head of the Miami Art Museum, surprised many in the art world this morning when he announced that he would be stepping down from his position after nearly four years. His resignation is effective immediately, according to Aaron Podhurst, the museum's chairman of the board of trustees.

The museum said that Riley will be resuming his role as partner at Keenen/Riley Architects but will continue to work with the Miami Art Museum as a consultant through June 30. He joined the museum in 2006.

Riley's resignation comes as the museum is readying an expensive — and some say problem-plagued — new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron that is scheduled to break ground in the spring with an opening day some time in 2013. (A rendering of the building is pictured above.)

In a statement sent out today, Riley said that his museum career was intended to be a temporary hiatus from his architectural work. “I never imagined that hiatus would extend for as long as it has,” he said.

He added that he will return to Keenen/Riley, which he opened with John Keenen in 1984, but said that he will still be based in Miami.

Riley stated that the Miami Art Museum's new building is “on budget” and that last week it received the City Commission’s approval for a special permit to build the structure on publicly owned waterfront property.

Photo: A rendering of the Miami Art Museum's new building. Credit: Miami Art Museum / Herzog & de Meuron / Artefactorylab

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Terry Riley makes an abrupt departure from Miami Art Museum

Check out Kevin Freitas commentary on MCASD “Here Not There” plan for 2010 from the spot-on Art As Authority blog:

Some of that critical mass will be chased down in the nooks & crannies of North County, North Park and further south to what I’m guessing will be Barrio Logan or what according to Pincus, the museum has dubbed as the “alternative art scene.” This should raise a few eyebrows, if only to ask “alternative to what ?” Alternative used in any relationship to the art world today, has likely petered out its once distinguishing character of well, uh… existing outside of the cultural norm. Still this is very gratifying; if Sanroman is willing to look in these places by letting the artists out of their pens, she will be richly compensated for her efforts with good works by good artists.

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Great article on the Obama’s White House art remodel from the London Times via post-thing.net

From the London Times Online comes a list of artworks borrowed by the Obama White House from museums and galleries in the Washington D.C. littoral. Here’s the text, with interspersed online images:

A cultural revolution is under way at the White House, where the Obamas are decorating their living quarters with modern and abstract artwork.

Out have gone traditional landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. In have come new pieces by contemporary African-American and Native American artists, with bold colours, odd shapes and squiggly lines.

Works by big names from the modern art world such as Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko rub shoulders with lesser-known artists such as Alma Thomas, an African-American abstract painter of the 1960s and 1970s.

Ed Ruscha in the White House

Read the London Times article on the Obama’s White House art choices.

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When he was director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Henry T. Hopkins gave the green light to the first major retrospective of Ed Ruscha's paintings. The show, which traveled the U.S. and Canada in 1982 and 1983, was instrumental in securing Ruscha's reputation as a critically important artist — both for Los Angeles, where he began to attract attention as a promising newcomer around 1959, and for a 1980s art world that was just on the cusp of going global.

Hopkins, who died over the weekend at 81, was instrumental in developing L.A.'s art scene. As an educator and a museum director, he was around in the 1960s as the cultural scene began to take off and again after 1986, when he returned from museum jobs in Texas and the Bay Area and L.A. became a powerhouse.

Among my favorite Hopkins stories is a rather harrowing one that concerns Ruscha. Hopkins bought one of the artist's first word-paintings not long after it was made, a transitional 1959 canvas called “Sweetwater.” He paid $200, arranging a $10-a-month payment plan with the young, then-little-known painter…..

– Christopher Knight

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Henry T. Hopkins dies at 81; painter and museum director had formative role in L.A. art scene

Photo: Henry T. Hopkins with two Ed Ruscha paintings in the background. Credit: Los Angeles Times

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Henry Hopkins and the ‘lost’ Ed Ruscha

More on the Warhol art theft in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The theft of 10 silkscreen paintings by Andy Warhol has the Los Angeles Police Department searching for clues, but it has people in the art world scratching their heads, too. Why were just Warhols stolen, … Each measuring 40 inches square, the paintings were all signed by the artist and by the individual sports stars, said Vincent Fremont, the exclusive sales agent for paintings and drawings at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts . …

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Stolen Art by Warhol Is Double Mystery in California and Worldwide …

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