Christopher Knight's best of art 2014
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight lists the 10 best shows at Los Angeles art museums in 2014.
View Article'Grandes Maestros: Great Masters of Iberoamerican Folk Art, Collection of...
Twelve hundred examples, almost all of them superlative (and beautifully displayed), chart the recent production of traditional clay, wood, textile and metal-work objects by artisans working on the...
View Article'Andrea Bowers: "#sweetjane"' | Pomona College Museum of Art
The accomplished L.A. artist produced an insightful and emotionally wrenching group of drawings, video and installations on the subject of a notorious rape, merging piercing insight about current...
View Article'Jackson Pollock's "Mural"' | J. Paul Getty Museum
A project led by the museum and the Getty Conservation Institute returned a big, pivotal painting in the history of Modern American art to a state close to what it was when the artist finished it in...
View Article'Mike Kelley: A Retrospective' | MOCA
Concluding an international tour, the survey admirably unfurled 30 years of work by one of the most important artists of our time.
View Article'Spectacular Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist' | J. Paul Getty Museum
Not only could the guy paint bravura portraits of royals, fantasies of mythological gods and goddesses, his beloved wife, Helena Fourment, and more, this exhibition shows that he could also paint...
View Article'Andy Warhol: Shadows' | MOCA
Given all that, the big show of "Andy Warhol: Shadows" at MOCA, which lines up 102 deadly dull, pseudo-abstract canvases around multiple rooms, demonstrates something we already knew: Even the best and...
View Article'Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit' | J. Paul Getty Museum
A thorough and enlightening survey successfully revised the established view of a long-neglected artist, whose work was once the epitome of all that art photography aspired to be.
View Article'Treasures From Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910' |...
Traditional Korean art is not widely known in the U.S., which made this survey of a profound dynastic transformation of society an absorbing revelation.
View Article'Chinese Paintings From Japanese Collections' | LACMA
An extraordinary group of masterpiece loans, some scrolls and screens leaving Japan for the first time, showed how fervently collectors in one country embraced art from another.
View Article'Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections' | Getty Villa
This rare show made clear how the dual nature being claimed for Jesus of Nazareth -- both man and god -- was used by the Byzantine Empire starting in the 4th century to become the first to fuse the...
View Article'Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880-1914' | UCLA Hammer Museum
Modest but absorbing, a print exhibition drawn from a promised gift to the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts offered a fascinating chronicle of one unintended effect in France of the opium wars...
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