Esoteric Survey

 The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ( MCASD ) La Jolla has reopened after a major renovation and expansion by New York firm, Selldorf Architects . The gallery space was quadrupled from 10,000 to 40,000 square feet. It also adds one more name to the MCASD architect list. More on that later.  A Yoyoi Kusama pumpkin was added to the museum's collection.  It plays nicely off the Andy Goldsworthy egg outside. Sol Lewitt MCASD has one of the best collections of light and space works. Larry Bell John McCraken, Donald Judd and Robert Mangold Most of the galleries are filled with MCASD's own collection.  The exception is Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s The gallery spaces have been expanded and also include some impressive ceiling heights.  More Niki Niki de Saint Phalle, “Tir de Jasper Johns,” 1961 Speaking of Jasper Johns, here is his "Light Bulb I," 1958 Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha Local boy, John Baldessari And his buddy, Richard Allen Morris And his buddy, Tom ...

A Robert Irwin groupie poses with the artist after his talk last night at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center at SDSU. She's really an art professor at SDSU, but there was a line of fans waiting to get their pictures taken with Irwin.   Poster for Ferus Gallery's The Studs exhibition, Los Angeles, 1964. The photo on the right is  Billy Al Bengston,  Allen Lynch, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John Altoon, Ed Kienholz, and Ed Moses, Los Angeles, 1958 Some things never change. At 85, Robert Irwin is still a stud (see photo above). Image: East of Borneo Untitled,  1961 Irwin's talk focused on his artistic journey of reduction, beginning with his abstract expressionist phase.  The end product would be to get to the point of "pure energy". Image: Christie's  Untitled,  1964 The reduction progresses. Image: Christie's  Untitled,  1966. O il, dots on canvas with bowed wood frame Now...