LACMA Celebrates "The Wrap Dress"

Forty years ago, Diane Von Fustenberg designed the first wrap dresses in her own cunning prints in vivid colors.  

The Los Angeles County Museum of art has an exhibit celebrating the popularity of that design to this day.  http://www.dvf.com/wrap40/ 

Like many women, I can remember my first wrap dress.  It was a dusty purple.  I lived in Pittsburgh.  The time was the late 1970's.  And, I felt like a million bucks in it.  

Acoma Pottery

Seeing the beautiful art of the American Indian culture in Palm Springs is always a must for me.

www.psmuseum.org/‎

Acoma Pueblo signed "J.J.," Polychrome Jar. ca. 1930, ceramic, polychrome 4-color with black, red and ochre on white  

Acoma Pueblo, Water Jar, ca. 1900, black-on-white glazed ceramic 

The Rains Came

The predicted rains came.  Though it is much needed,  we will lose some of these blooms. 

Sunrise at Malibu Pier

We were fortunate to have seen this sunrise at the Malibu Pier as we were traveling out of town in the morning.

Diebenkorn Exhibition in Palm Springs

 Just when I thought I couldn't possibly like Richard Diebenkorn's painting more, we traveled to Palm Springs and saw his abstracts and figurative canvases elegantly expressing the light of the San Francisco area.  More than 100 paintings and drawings had never been seen together, as they were drawn from private and museum collections from across the country.  http://www.psmuseum.org/palm-springs/exhibition/richard-diebenkorn-berkeley-years-1953-1966/ 

The pensive artist in his studio.  

Art Los Angeles Contemporary

There have been so many art fairs lately that they have run out of and are overlapping names.  This one hosted 70 emerging galleries with their artists from around the world.http://artlosangelesfair.com/about

(Included here is only a smattering of all that was shown.)  

L A Art Book Fair

What a delightful surprise to see the L A Art Book Fair jam packed with young hipsters.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-art-contemporary-los-angeles-la-art-book-fair-20140129,0,860000.story#axzz2sJyiVCZL

Scandinavian Concert

...breathtaking, monumental and powerful.  

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/hilary-hahn-and-los-angeles-philharmonic/20

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Hammer Museum

This is only three paintings from the permanent collection at the http://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/detail/collection_id/1 Hammer Museum.   Viewing them with my art loving friends and a docent was a pleasure...

John Singer Sargent, DR. POZZI AT HOME, 1881, oil on canvas 

Alfred Stevens, PORTRAIT OF SARAH BERNHARDT, 1885, oil on canvas 

Vincent van Gogh, HOSPITAL AT SAINT-REMY, 1889, oil on canvas

L A Art Show 2014

If you flew around the world it would be impossible to see all the art we saw in one weekend. http://www.laartshow

 Offered by a South Korean gallery, this sculptural installation was created by Choi Jeong Hwa in 2013  

 Marc Chagall's, color lithograph, THE MAGIC FLUTE , 1967

 The sculptures by Dennis Oppenheim are called CACTUS SERIES  

 Fritz Scholder's, oil on canvas, created in 1966 is entitled NEW MEXICO NO. 40

Tom Haney's automated sculptures are entitled THE USUAL SUSPECTS 

Offered by a Shanghai gallery, these sculptures are called HORSE and were created in 2012 by Zhao Kun 

Ralph Lauren in Malibu

Greystone Mansion

Chris and I had so much fun playing house at Mr. Doheny's place, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/01/news/la-lh-design-house-opens-at-greystone-131101