By Rozalia Jovanovic 10/23/12 5:25pm

artists

John Baldessari, 'Animal Crackers in My Soup,' 2012. (Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery)

A Shirley Temple—And Make It a Double! John Baldessari Is Remixing Art History

Earlier this month, the Los Angeles-based artist John Baldessari quietly arrived in New York to get his license renewed. Assuming the reviews are decent for his latest exhibition here, which opened Oct. 19 at the spacious 57th Street gallery of his longtime dealer, Marian Goodman, Mr. Baldessari will, he said, get his “license as an artist” extended. Now 81, he has been going through the process annually (or pretty close to annually, with shows somewhere or another in the world) for many years, and by all appearances, he wears the effort lightly. Sitting in the gallery last week, decked out in the standard art world uniform of all black below his signature white chin-strap beard, surrounded by several of the 13 pieces in his new series “Double Play,” he described to The Observer what’s involved in the license renewal. “The whole test,” he said breezily in his SoCal drawl, “is: can I get away with this?” Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 6/29/12 10:00am

art and tech

Still from John Baldessari: Digital Talk, 2012. (Courtesy Nowness).

John Baldessari’s Tech Talk

John Baldessari is the subject of a new short film by Todd Coles, one in a series of shorts presented by Nowness in which an artist is asked a question about technology. Standing outdoors as “all the private jets” carrying “captains of industry” land at the nearby Santa Monica Airport, Mr. Baldessari, in dark Read More

3/09/12 2:05pm

Armory Show 2012

Image from John Baldessari's Portrait, Various Identities With Name/Date Cards." Courtesy L&M Gallery.

Seeing Red at L&M’s ADAA Booth

One of the booths that caught our eye immediately at the ADAA Art Show was L&M’s–most notably because its walls are painted bright red.

Of course that wasn’t the only thing that drew us there. The gallery is showing works from the ’70s by John Baldessari including Portrait, Various Identities with Name/Date Cards and Untitled (Directional Piece). Read More