Memories of Rauschenberg: ‘A giant among artists’: Artist Robert Rauschenberg used to say he intended for his work to fill the gap between art and life — and the morning after his death, friends and colleagues were left struggling for words to describe the gap he left in their lives and in the art world. [LA Times]
A Baghdad Rescue Operation: These painters were so poor, and art supplies were so expensive in Baghdad, that their canvases often contained only the thinnest veneer of color. Indeed, on one of the few occasions that Brownfield encountered Iraqi painters in the shop, they told him that Vincent van Gogh, great as he was, used too much good paint. [NY Mag]
Architect Rem Koolhaas saw what Vegas didn’t have, not what it needed: Like a lot of Las Vegas marriages, the one between the Venetian Hotel and the Guggenheim Museum was born of some seriously misplaced optimism. Presided over by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, with St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum standing by as a comically out-of-place bridesmaid, the union was planned in the late 1990s, when the Guggenheim brand and the transformative power of high-design architecture both seemed unassailable. [LA Times]
Museum showcases female punk scene: ‘Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk’ traces the history and the legacy of a key era. [LA Times]
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