Christopher Knight
Art Critic at Los Angeles Times
Knight, Pulitzer Prize & Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award, 11/9/21 Jeopardy! answer, is L.A. Times art critic. Pro-woke. Also @christopher.knight.7 on threads
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Christopher Knight
Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic photographs exposing the soul-crushing nature of childhoods lost to labor. In the modern-day search for cheap labor, sometimes to replace migrant workers, many states want to roll back the child labor laws that Hine’s photographs helped to get passed.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Christopher Knight
At some point in the mid-1960s, artist Don Bachardy began to make a regular practice of having the sitter for a portrait-drawing sign and date the sheet of paper, just as the artist did, at the end of a rigorous, multihour session. The dual signature routine continued for more than six decades as his career unfolded, until finally Bachardy largely retired his pencil, pen and brush in 2022. The practice is revealing.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Christopher Knight
Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that caused great consternation when first shown at an annual purchase competition at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, south of San Diego, where it won the $1,900 first prize. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than $17,000 today — not an insignificant chunk of change for a ‘60s art contest.
Our critics pick spring's most anticipated L.A. arts, theater, classical music, pop and comedy shows
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latimes.com | Christopher Knight |Mark Swed |Charles McNulty |Mikael Wood |August Brown |Nate Jackson
Broadway shows, world-class art and concerts that crisscross the musical spectrum descend on L.A. this spring. Whatever your jam, be it painting, photography or sculpture, Beyoncé, Boulez or AC/DC, “Hamlet,” Ibsen, stand-up or show tunes, our critics have a recommendation for you. So pick up your phone (or pencil and planner) and start adding events to your calendar for the must-experience performing and visual arts events of the season. April 5-Aug.
Our critics pick spring's most anticipated L.A. arts, theater, classical music, pop and comedy shows
1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Christopher Knight |Mark Swed |Charles McNulty |Mikael Wood |August Brown |Nate Jackson
Broadway shows, world-class art and concerts that crisscross the musical spectrum descend on L.A. this spring. Whatever your jam, be it painting, photography or sculpture, Beyoncé, Boulez or AC/DC, "Hamlet," Ibsen, stand-up or show tunes, our critics have a recommendation for you. So pick up your phone (or pencil and planner) and start adding events to your calendar for the must-experience performing and visual arts events of the season. VISUAL ARTSApril 5-Aug.
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