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Ephemeral and timeless Paintings by Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum in Westwood by Bondo Wyszpolski I was beginning to feel guilty. I’d go to the Hammer Museum in Westwood and see much-ballyhooed exhibitions like “Breath(e)” and “Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal,” and come away not very impressed. But now we have “Noah Davis” on view […]
Music and Meditation “Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal” at the Hammer by Bondo Wyszpolski Somewhat in the vein of the recent Joan Didion exhibition, the Hammer’s current offering, “Alice Coltrane, Monument,” is a sprawling look at the life and legacy of the jazz pianist and spiritual leader, better known as the wife of saxophonist John Coltrane, […]
David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos On view through Sept. 15 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles by Bondo Wyszpolski My initial impression of this man’s body of work was that most of it was crudely done and hastily conceived street protest art, off the cuff or on the fly. After a meander […]