Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews John Baldessari's retrospective in artnet Magazine.

Access the article through the MLG website's Library or click here to read it on artnet.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce that "Sediment," the current exhibition of Baldessari's new paintings, will be extended through 31 July 2010.

Christopher Knight reviews John Baldessari's retrospective in Monday's Los Angeles Times.

Access the review in print through the MLG online library or click here to read the review on the Los Angeles Times website.

John Baldessari's retrospective opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art tomorrow, 27 June. Having originated at the Tate Modern, London and traveled to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the exhibition will run through 12 September in Los Angeles before traveling to its final destination, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Including work that will not be on view at the retrospective's other venues, LACMA will host the largest incarnation of "Pure Beauty."

For more information on "John Baldessari: Pure Beauty," click here to visit LACMA's website.

David Pagel reviews John Baldessari's "Sediment," an exhibition of new paintings. The exhibition is on view through 10 July 2010.

Access the review through the MLG online library or click here to read the review on the Los Angeles Times website.

The Spring/Summer issues of NERO includes a wonderful project titled "Negative Space (STScIPRC2005-29)" by Mungo Thomson.

Click here to visit the magazine's website for a downloadable pdf. Go to page 52 to view Thomson's project.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by John Baldessari, on view from 22 May through 10 July 2010.

Please join us at a reception for the artist on Saturday, 22 May from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.

Jeffrey Vallance's "Relics and Reliquaries" is reviewed in this month's Art in America by Eleanor Heartney.

.Click here to read the review in the MLG online library

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp profiles Roy Dowell in this month's ARTnews.

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Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce an installation of artist editions, on view from 17 April through 15 May 2010.

An opening for the public will be held from 3-5pm on Saturday, 17 April.

New work by Mungo Thomson is featured in his current solo exhibition at Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida. On view through 15 May 2010, Thomson's silkscreens invert photographs of starscapes taken by amateur astronomers and turn them into glow-in-the-dark prints whose negative space glows, rather than the stars themselves.

Click here to access further information at Gavlak Gallery's website.

"New Year 7: Mungo Thomson," will be on view at Western Bridge in Seattle from April 8th through the 17th. The installation will feature a new video, in which Thomson has animated every weekly cover of Time magazine since the first issue in 1923. Each cover occupies a single video frame, meaning a year passes in less than two seconds.

Click here to access further information at Western Bridge's website.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce that our current installation "John Baldessari: Blue Line (Holbein)" will now run through 10 April 2010. The press release is available in our Current Exhibitions section. David Pagel's Los Angeles Times review of the installation can be accessed through our online Library.

Allen Ruppersberg's "You and Me or the Art of Give and Take," Santa Monica Museum of Art, is reviewed by Catherine Taft is this month's Artforum. Taft concludes that while "the milieu of Conceptual art may be getting on in years, Ruppersberg is keeping the faith, maintaining its weight, humor, and vitality."

Please click here to access this article through the MLG online library.

See Line gallery's exhibition "From My Universe: Objects of Desire Part II" will close 25 February. The show includes Youngblood's arresting photographs as well as work by many other notable artists.

"Among the myriad of experiences within each individual universe, there is a place for the natural human phenomenon of desire. This ineffable emotion has manifested itself in a number of ways, including their materialization in objects. These objects of desire, as subjective as their origins may be, are a physical representation of an often-incommunicable experience, which translates these subjective sentiments into broadly understandable terms. Where words fail to express, objects perform the task of communicating these desires that represent this lusty emotion figuratively, symbolically, and even literally, offering insight into the minds of the individuals who desire them."
(excerpted from See Line's press release)

Click here to visit See Line's website for more information.

David Pagel reviews Baldessari's current exhibition "Blue Line (Holbein)" in today's Los Angeles Times, calling the it "one of the most moving shows of the season."

Click here to read the review in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library.

Jancar Jones Gallery will exhibit 300 ink drawings by William Leavitt related to a play titled "Pyramid Lens Delta" by the artist. The script will also be on view. Opening Friday, 19 February, 6-9, the show will be on view through 20 March.

For more information, click here to visit the Jancar Jones Gallery's website.

"DISQUIETED," running 20 February-16 May at the Portland Art Museum, will include work by John Baldessari and Robert Longo.

As Bruce Guenther, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, writes: "For many, today’s world is marked by anxiety and doubt precipitated by events beyond our control. This unease is a natural response to a tumultuous and troubling decade filled with natural disasters, war, global terrorism, and worldwide financial collapse.In DISQUIETED, a roster of renowned contemporary artists explore our social condition and respond to the most compelling issues of the day, challenging our preconceptions and exposing our vulnerability in turbulent times."

For more information, click here to visit the Portland Art Museum's website.

Work by Jeffrey Vallance will be included in "No Laughing Matter: Art and Humor in Souther California (a Modest Sampling)," opening February 24th, 7-10pm. The exhibition will run through April 15th and will also include work by Doug Harvey and William Wegman.

Click here to visit the Los Angeles Valley College website for details.

Greene Naftali will mount an exhibition of work by Allen Ruppersberg March 5th-April 3rd.

Click here to visit Greene Naftali's website..

A selection of Brenna Youngblood's striking photographs will be included in an extension of "From My Universe: Objects of Desire" at See Line Gallery (Suite B380), Pacific Design Center to run 26 January-5 February. The opening is set for 30 January, 4-7pm.

Click here to visit See Line's website for more information.

Jeffrey Vallance "Relics and Reliquaries" will open at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY this Saturday, January 9.

For more information on this exhibition, click here to visit the gallery's website.

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. will open an exhibition of new collages by Roy Dowell on Thursday, January 14.

For more information on this exhibition, please click here to visit the gallery's website.

We are very pleased to announce that exhibitions of work by John Baldessari, Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg have all made this year's Best of 2009 issue. Daniel Birnbaum chose Baldessari's retrospective as his #1 pick, and Anne Ellegood included exhibitions of work by van Elk, Leavitt, and Ruppersberg at Margo Leavin Gallery and the Santa Monica Museum in her picks. Leavitt's installation at LAXART is also reviewed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, and as a contributing writer, Ruppersberg picks Walker Evans at the MET as the best exhibition of the year.

You can find these picks, reviews, and more in the MLG online library.

The work of Lynda Benglis is featured on the cover and in two articles by Martin Friedman and Julian Kreimer in this month's Art in America.

Click here to read both articles in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library.

William Leavitt and Allen Ruppersberg will discuss their artistic practices in 1970s Los Angeles, before MOCA's inception, with independent curator Carole Ann Klonarides. MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium, 19 November, 6:30pm.

Click here to find out more information on MOCA's November events.

Mungo Thomson continues his project "Negative Space," in which he inverts images from the Hubble Space Telescope. You can view it's latest manifestation on a billboard on S. La Cienega when driving or walking south between Venice and Washington throughout the month of November.

"The New Five Foot Shelf and Since When: Home Movies and Memoirs"

Allen Ruppersberg will speak at the Santa Monica Museum of Art on Friday, 13 November at 7:00 pm. He will discuss his paperback "The New Five Foot Shelf" and incorporate a 20-book giveaway.

Click here to read more at SMMOA's website.

Doug Harvey reviews our current exhibition, set to close this Saturday, of work by Roy Dowell and Jeffrey Vallance.

You may access this article through Margo Leavin Gallery's online library or click here to read it on LA Weekly.com.

Roy Dowell is profiled in the latest issue of art ltd. magazine.

Click here to read this article in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library.

This week's art:21 episode titled "Systems" will include John Baldessari, an artist who uses a decidedly systematic process to "assail conventional wisdom about art and meaning." The episode airs this Wednesday, 28 October at 10pm ET.

Click here to find out more about this episode of art:21.

Jeffrey Vallance's special project "Lapland Shaman Drum" is reviewed and posted as a PICK on Artslant.

Find this review in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library or click here to read the article on Artslant's website.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to host a reception, which is open to the public, for Roy Dowell and Jeffrey Vallance on 24 October, 4-6 pm.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews Ruppersberg's "You and Me or the Art of Give and Take" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Access this article through Margo Leavin Gallery's online library or click here to read it online at artnet.

Benjamin Weismann and Barbara Bloom offer insight into the 50-year career of John Baldessari.

Both articles are available in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library, or you may access them on Frieze's webiste by clicking here and then selecting the "Middle" tab.

At 2.30pm on October 15, the New York-based artist and curator Matthew Higgs will interview the artist John Baldessari as part of the Talks programme, asking a selection of questions proposed by the readers of Frieze magazine.

Visit Frieze's website for more details.

Robert Longo's retrospective, now on view at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, France, is reviewed by David Galloway in The New York Times.

This article is available through Margo Leavin Gallery's online library, or you may click here to read the review on The New York Times' website.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce that the exhibition "Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg" will be extended through 3 October 2009.

Allen Ruppersberg's "You and Me or the Art of Give and Take" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is reviewed by Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight.

This article is available in Margo Leavin Gallery's online library, or you may click here to read the review on the Los Angeles Times' Culture Monster blog.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews "Nine Lives" at the Hammer Museum and praises Vallance as a truly visionary artist.

Access this article in its entirety through Margo Leavin Gallery's online library.

Thursday, 24 September at 6:30 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Theater 3

"This conversation examines the international networks that developed among conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Three such artists--Ger van Elk, Allen Ruppersberg, and Lawrence Weiner--focus the discussion on their respective cities of Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and New York, each of which served as a major center of artistic production at the time."

Read more at MoMA's website.

Thursday, 24 September at 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Leo S. Bing Theater

"Join LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan for a conversation with renowned contemporary artist John Baldessari. Govan and Baldessari will talk about the artist's collaborations with LACMA, including his acclaimed design for the Magritte and Contemporary Art installation, LACMA's new logo, the large-scale banners seen along Wilshire Boulevard, and next summer's retrospective of his work. This popular series often sells out early so be sure to reserve your free tickets soon."

You can find further information on LACMA's website.

Pure Beauty, a major retrospective of Baldessari’s work, is set to open at the Tate Modern on 13 October 2009 and run through 10 January 2010. It will then travel to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 11 February-25 April; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 27 June-12 September; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17 October-9 January 2011. An exhibition catalogue, written by the Tate’s Jessica Morgan and LACMA’s Leslie Jones, will include more than 400 color illustrations and 11 essays.

Please visit the Tate Modern's website for more details.

Opening at the Santa Monica Museum of Art on Friday, 11 September, 7-9 pm, Allen Ruppersberg's "You and Me or The Art of Give and Take" will include two new, large-scale installations as well as a selection of past works and films from the artist's personal archives. A catalogue with texts by Greil Marcus and Connie Lewallen and an archive of essays previously written about the artist will accompany the exhibition, which will run 12 September-19 December 2009.

Read more about the exhibition on the Santa Monica Museum of Art's website.

An new installation by William Leavitt opens at LA><ART 12 September and runs through 31 October 2009.

Visit LA><ART's website for upcoming exhibition information.

In & Out of Amsterdam, which brings together work by ten American and European artists, consists largely of a collection gifted to the museum in 2007 by Art & Project founders Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn. The gift includes, in part, five screenprints by Ger van Elk; several drawings, aquatints, and a photographic work by William Leavitt; a number of photographic and text works by Allen Ruppersberg; and a print by John Baldessari. In & Out of Amsterdam, running 19 July-5 October 2009, exhibits a selection of this gift as well as other work by van Elk, Leavitt and Ruppersberg. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by the exhibition’s organizer Christophe Cherix as well as Rini Dippel, Chirstian Rattemeyer and Phillip Van den Bossche and an illustrated checklist of the exhibition and gift.

Read more about In & Out of Amsterdam at MoMA’s website.

Margo Leavin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Robert Longo: Retrospective" at Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain in Nice, France. The exhibition will run from 27 June through 29 November 2009.

Visit MAMAC's website.

"Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Jutta Koether" opened at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on 20 June. The exhibition will remain on view through 4 October 2009.

Visit Van Abbemuseum's website.

Margo Leavin Gallery at Art 40 Basel, 10-14 June, 2009.

Visit Art 40 Basel online catalogue.

On 6 June 2009 John Baldessari will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 53rd Venice Biennale.