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...That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works in just about every imaginable medium, set forth by a team of catalog writers and curators as long as the credit crawl on a George Lucas movie, under the general direction of LACMA's senior curator, Stephanie Barron. Its size makes for fatigue, and parts of it might have fared better as documentary film. But the story it tells is an absorbing...
...first two pages of the huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least...
...Despite the brilliant vision Phelan provided the department, administrative and personal issues left the department disorganized and interfered with the effective implementation of programs and the quality of arts education. These administrative difficulties—such as courses not entered into the catalog promptly—were recognized for some time before measures were taken last year to reform the department...
...make sure they get their due. It seems to me that in the sciences, the need for more professors is a question of class size, while in the humanities—the traditional heart of this and every liberal arts college—gaps have appeared in the course catalog because there are not the professors to teach the courses. The chairs of the Women’s Studies and Social Studies committees—both women—announced their departure this year, claiming they did not feel support for their academic endeavors here. The University lacks professors...
...Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would have had to draw them in the garden.) One of Rembrandt's more gifted pupils, Carel Fabritius, worked for a time...