walter van beirendonck, ensemble, fall/winter 2000-1
jeremy scott with adidas, ensemble, fall/winter 2013-14
Orange County Museum of Art April is busting out all over at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA)! Three unique exhibits are slated to open this Spring and will runthrough until early July: First up isWe Were Here: Absence of the Figure, which highlights the museum’s most recent acquisitions to their permanent collection. The exhibit “explores the persistence of the human presence in place and time through contemporary interpretations of landscape, object and environment. The second to open is Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty and features the lush paintings, photographs and videos of an artist whose works “vividly manifest our culture’s complex and contradictory emotions around the feminine body and beauty.” Finally, also opening in April, is the museum’s third in a video art series titledThe Pacific Project: Yuki Kiharaand showcases the interdisciplinary work of this New Zealand video artist, in her U.S. debut. For more information, go to
ocma.net.
johnson hartig for libertine, emsemble, fall/winter 2009-10
Body Consciousness: The idea of molding the body to idealize
a figure is not something exclusive to the female form. Men have used undergarments to conceal, manipulate or reveal the male figure in its best possible light. As explained by curatorial staff at LACMA, “Historically men have turned to clothing devices such as stockings with padded calves, waist- cinching underpants and body-shaping tailored jackets or corsets to achieve an ideal male silhouette. Molding the garment with tailoring or padding has been used for nearly two centuries. In the early 19th century, a jacket’s broad shoulders, expansive chest and wide skirts created an illusion of a narrow “wasp waist.” An ideology and value, which can certainly be found in the most current fashions—or perhaps under them—in much of menswear today.
The Splendid Man: Excess is the word for this portion of the exhibition. 18th Century men expressed this concept by the use of vividly colored fabrics, precious metals used in the heavy embroidered detailing, which was frequently highlighted with fur, gemstones, sequins and metallic lace. Florals, generally relegated to the feminine, returned as a symbol of the contemporary, elegant male as seen in designs such as Frida Giannini’s Gucci ensemble or Helmut Lang’s floral trousers.
For tickets and more information, go to
lacma.org. vivienne westwood, ensemble, spring/summer 2014 APRIL 2016 | RAGE monthly 31
Balboa Park This is the place to be in San Diego if you want to not only enjoy the grandeur of the city’s 100-year- old park, but take in its many museums, the focal point of the city and park’s
collection.The San Diego Museum of Art features a nationally- renown, permanent collection of Spanish and Italian old masters, paintings of South Asia and 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures. Current major exhibitions include: German Expressionism, Art of East Asia, artists Harry Sternberg, Pan Gongkai and Sebastião Salgado, as well asArt of the Open Airon the Plaza de
Panama.The San Diego Art Institute is the park’s premier organization showcasing artists from the Southern California/Baja Norte region. Along with many one-night only events offered each month, their current collection from curator-in-residence, Amanda Cachia isSweet Gongs Vibrating: a multimedia, multisensory exhibition that “breaks with the ocularcentric by embracing myriad modes of perception.”The Mingei International Museum is “dedicated to art of the people (mingei) from all eras and cultures of the world.”The Timken Museum of Arthouses the world-class Putnam Foundation Collection of European old master paintings, American paintings and Russian icons, including; Rembrandt, Rubens, Fragonard and Bierstadt. The Museum of Photographic Arts is one of the few in the country solely dedicated to the photographic arts. With more than 7,000 images amassed so far, including new artist’s work, their permanent collection represents the entire history of the art form. For more information on all these selected museums, or the many others that reside in Balboa Park, go to balboapark. org/in-the-park/museums.
Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego With two locations, one in Downtown San Diego’s historic Sante Fe Depot and the other in the heart of La Jolla, MCASD is dedicated to “the exploration and presentation of the art of our time, presenting works across all media created since 1950.” Current La Jolla exhibitions includeÁlvaro Blancarte: Marking the Present andEd Ruscha Then & Now: Paintings from the 1960s and 2000s; downtown San Diego features work ranging from large-scale architectural installations and sculptures, to works on paper and video from artistDo Ho Suh. For more information, go to
mcasd.org.
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