Leonard Cohen lifts his hat in appreciation of all of you who ventured to my studio this year and to those who engaged with my artwork online!
Deepest thanks to my collectors, supporters, and friends who helped make 2023 memorable. Thanks to my fellow @18thstreetarts artists who worked tirelessly to make this happen - especially @rebecca.youssef_studio and @alexandradillonartist!!!!
And deep thanks to the folks at @18thstreetarts who support us day in and day out. And thanks to the city of Santa Monica for your financial support for our events. Leonard has found a new home and I am more inspired than ever to create.
"Curator Bart Cornelis explains the meaning behind a hidden monster and skull in this 17th-century portrait by Frans Hals, and how they helped to identify the sitter as Isaac Massa.
He's accompanied by one of our restorers, Paul Ackroyd, and Larry Keith, Head of Conservation and Keeper, who help reveal this painting's secrets.
Hals was one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. A gifted artist whose deft brushwork was unparalleled, he built his reputation on a new style of portrait – highly unusual in his time – that showed relaxed, lively sitters, often smiling, and even laughing.
This exhibition, the first major retrospective of Hals in more than thirty years, means a new generation can discover why he deserves his place as one of the greatest painters in Western art."
Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us.
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere & the first day of winter! What causes our planet’s shift in seasons? Its tilt. Today, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is at its most-tilted away from the Sun. pic.twitter.com/cFJs2ZNGUo
In London, the Piano Nobile Gallery presents the exhibition - R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles. This short film features interviews with Marco Livingstone, a leading specialist on Kitaj’s work; Simon Martin, Director of Pallant House Gallery; and the artist’s daughter Dominie Kitaj.
R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provides a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived.
The Piano Nobile Gallery explains that "Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia, Paris and New York, Kitaj made London his home from 1959 – the year he entered the Royal College of Art – until 1997. For the last decade of his life, from 1997 to 2007, he lived in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes little-known early work of the fifties, the groundbreaking ‘collagist’ work of the sixties that established his reputation, and the life drawings and glowing paintings of the seventies, continuing through to Kitaj's rediscovery of painting in the eighties and his final period in Los Angeles. An accompanying publication includes original essays by Andrew Dempsey, Marco Livingstone and Colin Wiggins, in addition to extended excerpts from Kitaj’s letters to Livingstone, now held by the Tate Archive and published here for the first time."
Lions, giraffes, seals… Gilles Aillaud, who died in 2005, painted animals a lot, often in captivity. Asked about his choice of animals as subject matter, Gilles Aillaud replied: “because I love them”. The fragility of our relationship with living things shows the relevance of his work.
Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, shows us four paintings by the artist, in the company of Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition “Gilles Aillaud. Political animal »
The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay about his work created “a chilling effect on the critical culture,” a journalism expert said.
A 1937 mural by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand, titled “Essential Happiness, New Pleasures,” at Tate Liverpool in 2018. The outstretched hand with flowers reminded Romy Golan, a historian and author, of Koons’s Paris sculpture and she decided to write about the two works.Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Photo by Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
I am excited to invite you to my studio at the Santa Monica Airport for an afternoon of art and camaraderie.
Holiday Gathering and Open Studios Sunday, December 3, 2023 from 11 AM-3 PM Location: Studio #15, 18th Street Arts Center, 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405
), a song reminding us not to give up on nature or each other.
Pattie Gonia, Yo-Yo Ma and Quinn Christopherson came together to write a song about not giving up on this planet and not giving up on each other.
Climate justice and environmental justice are inextricably linked.
How we treat this planet is how we treat each other.
Produced by Grammy award-winning Producer Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Blake Mills, Andrew Bird) and with performances by players violinist Paul Cartwright (Kendrick Lamar, Bright Eyes, Olivia Rodrigo) and drummer James McAllister (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheerhan, Sufjan Stevens) – the new single was created as a climate movement anthem.
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We’ll I’m not
I’m not gonna say goodbye
I won’t see you on the other side
Even when I feel tired
I won’t stop
You & I
Made up of the same things
Nature running in our veins
Even when I feel tired
I won’t stop trying
I’ve seen the sun shine before all this gray
Always find light still the breaking of day
I won't give up for a minute
Never giving up on you
Never giving up on you
Well we’re caught
Caught up in the fire of time
How do we stay strong, stay kind?
We don’t have to say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
I saw you burning
Up in the night
I’ll always keep searching
Searching for light
I won't give up for a minute
Never giving up on you
Never giving up on you
I won’t give up for a minute
Never giving up on you
Never giving up on you
I won’t give up for a minute
Never giving up on you
Never giving up on you
VIDEO CREDITS
A Wondercamp Production
Directed by: Abdul Kassamali
Executive Producer: Davis Goslin
Producer: Katie Graham
Assistant Producer: Ellen Bradley
Production Supervising: Jenny Dugan
Cinematographer: Greg Balkin
First AC: Ethan Scoma
Photographer: William Woodward
Editors: Tim Kressin, Abdul Kassamali
Color: Zachary Hetlage
CREATIVE CREDITS
Outfits/Dress by: Lisa Jiang
Wig by: Drag Daddy Wigs
Boots: Xtratuf
SPECIAL THANKS
Native Movement
Our Common Nature
Jose Alvarado
Zion Jackson
Ben Mandelkern
Sophie Shackleton
Liquid Adventures
The Office Performing Arts and Film
SONG CREDITS
Songwriters: Pattie Gonia, Quinn Christopherson, Tyson Motsenbocker, Tyler Chester
Produced by: Tyler Chester
Recorded by: Tyler Chester
Recording assistant: Aaron Feeny
Mixed by: James Krausse
Mastered by: James Krausse
String arrangements: Paul Cartright
Yo-Yo Ma’s cello arranged by: Hrishikesh Hirway and Jesse Lewis
Yo-Yo Ma’s cello recording engineers: Téa Mottolese, Carl Talbot, Christopher Moretti
Yo-Yo Ma’s cello mix engineer: Kyle Pyke
Vocals: Pattie Gonia, Quinn Christopherson
Cello: Yo-Yo Ma
Synths, Pianos, Guitars, Programming, Bass: Tyler Chester
Strings: Paul Cartwright
Drums: James McAllister
This short documentary film explores artist Betye Saar’s process creating "Drifting Toward Twilight," a site-specific installation at The Huntington, and her recollections of her life and career.
Learn more about the exhibition at Huntington.org
Directed by Kyle Provencio Reingold
Digital video, 16mm film, still photographs, archival video, animation, sound.
Cover Art by YAYA Studio (@yaya_studio_)
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