L.A. International Biennial Moves Into
Second Week
Mirror staff
Wherever you go in the Los Angeles nation these days, you
will be hard put to avoid the L.A. International Biennial, which celebrates art globally
and locally. l Exhibits of works by artists from nearly 30 countries opened last week in
galleries in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Venice, Santa Monica and on La Brea and
Melrose Avenues and Beverly and Wilshire Boulevards in Los Angeles.
Exhibit receptions will be held on Friday, July 23, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
the West Hollywood, La Brea, Beverly, Melrose, Wilshire and downtown galleries. On
Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Venice and Bergamot
Station galleries have scheduled exhibit receptions. In all, more than 60 area galleries
are participating in the Biennial.
Related exhibitions and events are being staged at all the museums and arts
institutions in Los Angeles, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the Miracle
Mile in midtown Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, at both its downtown
locations—on Grand Avenue and the Geffen Contemporary on Central Avenue, the Getty
Center in Brentwood, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood, the Santa Monica Museum in
Bergamot Station, the 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica, the MAK Center at the
Schindler House on Kings Road in West Hollywood, Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, Watts
Tower Arts Center and William Grant Still Art Center.
Tonight, July 21, 7 to 9 p.m., an exhibition, “Life/Boat” will open
at the MAK Center.
Friday, July 23, Paul Foss will lecture on “L.A.’s Place in the
International Art World” at the Santa Monica Museum at 6 p.m.
Sunday, The 1999 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, juried by Adriano Pedrosa, Sao Paulo,
Brazil, will open at Barnsdall, Watts Tower and the Still Art Center, noon to 6 p.m.
Co-chairmen of the 1999 Biennial are Robert Berman, Robert Berman Gallery,
and William Turner, William Turner Gallery, both in Bergamot Station. Primary sponsors are
Absolut and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
For specific gallery listings, see Seven Days, pages 12 and 13 |