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by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Nov. 12, 2009

While much well-deserved attention is being paid to Georgia O’Keeffe at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, another pioneering American modern is getting the full treatment at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. "Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield," Oct. 4, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010, is a comprehensive and fascinating exhibition that includes 80 watercolors, oils and drawings as well as doodles, wallpaper designs and journals.

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Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Archives

Nov. 9, 2009	MAKING "HEAT WAVES" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp An interview with artist Robert Gober, curator of a new Charles Burchfield show.

July 9, 2009	COLD WAR CULTURES by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Larry Johnson at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

May 19, 2009	AN ALEXIS SMITH REVIVAL by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Word play and narrative in works by the Los Angeles artist.

Feb. 25, 2009	COLD WAR CULTURES by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp From LACMA, a wide-ranging survey of post-war German art in "Art of Two Germanys"

Dec. 12, 2008	PALE FIRE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp New sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and George Stoll.

Nov. 19, 2008	DRUNKEN MASTER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp German artist Martin Kippenberger made mockery his method.

Oct. 22, 2008	CERAMIC HISTORY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Ken Price talks about his long escape from "art craft hell."

Aug. 4, 2008	SKYBOXES by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Halfway between the prairie and the Jetsons with the architecture of John Lautner.

July 21, 2008	BITING AND BRUISED by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The painting of Marlene Dumas.

May 16, 2008	HAPPENING NOW by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Sotheby’s contemporary does a record-setting $362 million.

May 8, 2008	DIAMOND IN THE DESERT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.

Apr. 14, 2008	VIDEO RAVE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Surveying "California Video" at the Getty Museum.

Feb. 13, 2008	Alas and Alack at LACMA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The elephant in the room at LACMA’s new Broad Contemporary Art Museum.

Jan. 18, 2008	DANGEROUS BEAUTY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Graciela Iturbide and the astonishment of Mexico.

Nov. 9, 2007	© ART by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Takashi Murakami’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

Aug. 8, 2007	FINALLY, SOMEBODY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Rediscovering the eccentric (and influential) abstractions of Mary Heilmann.

July 26, 2007	LEFT COAST by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Ross, Renée Petropoulos and "L.A. Object."

May 30, 2007	PHILLIPS HEAD by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Phillips’ postmodern vanitas paintings feature nude women and Nazis.

May 23, 2007	THAT’S THE SPIRIT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Marnie Weber provides a feminized variant of testosterone-driven West Coast installation art.

May 21, 2007	ART HOUSE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp ArchitectureForSale.com pioneers a new market in houses by top architects.

Mar. 23, 2007	PUSSY POWER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Feb. 28, 2007	THE LONG VIEW by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Art history catches up to Vija Celmins.

Dec. 6, 2006	EVERYTHING FITS by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp John Baldessari installs "Magritte and Contemporary Art" at LACMA.

Nov. 29, 2006	SOLAR BUZZ by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Actor and artist Robert Dean Stockwell talks about his art and his life.

June 27, 2006	PRAGUE SUMMER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Tina B. offers a different kind of European art festival.

Apr. 19, 2006	MARFA ON MY MIND by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A visit to Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation art museum in Marfa, Texas.

Apr. 13, 2006	DEADPAN MAGIC by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Visual wit in the collages and paintings of Roy Dowell. Gallery, more.

Nov. 29, 2005	VANISHING by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp New exhibitions by Ed Ruscha, Julius Schulman and Tim Street-Porter.

Oct. 21, 2005	THE ART TRIP by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Curator Paul Schimmel’s "Ecstasy" brings contemporary art back to where it belongs.

Sept. 16, 2005	Court Gestures by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Contemporary art comes to a 12th-century stone fortress in the English countryside.

Sept. 6, 2005	Dirty Little Pots by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Roger Herman puts sexy spin on his ceramics.

June 14, 2005	PATHS OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Surveys of work by Paul Strand and Frederick Sommer at the Getty.

May 18, 2005	INTERIOR WEATHER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Olafur Eliasson tests the darkness in Pasadena.

March 16, 2005	HOT SET by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp George Herms and Walter Hopps talking in Los Angeles.

Dec. 15, 2004	THE TRISTAN PROJECT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s "A Knock at the Door"

Feb. 11, 2004	THE O'KEEFFE SAGA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Letters between Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot.

Jan. 20, 2003	YOUTH HAMMER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The Hammer Museum supports up-and-coming L.A. artists.

Oct. 12, 2001	CHERUBIC MINIMALIST by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Sol LeWitt shines in Southern California.

Oct. 10, 2001	VIVA LAS VEGAS! by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The Guggenheim Museum opens two new branches in Sin City.

July 16, 2001	IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Dave Hickey redeems cosmopolitanism at Site Santa Fe.

Mar. 29, 2001	READING RUPPERSBERG by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The novel that writes itself comes of age.

Mar. 21, 2001	DRAWING THE UNIVERSE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Russell Crotty maps the globe of heaven.

Mar. 8, 2001	COLLECTING BEAUTY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Christie's auctions the exotic high-and-low holdings of L.A. decorator Tony Duquette.

Mar. 6, 2001	ARCHITECT OF CALIFORNIA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp How R.M. Schindler invented the classic California house.

Jan. 18, 2001	SUPERFLAT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Anime comes of age at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Dec. 19, 2000	THE GRAND PERSPECTIVE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The photography of Sheila Metzner.

Nov. 14, 2000	THE MECHANICAL ID by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The culturally perverse art of Paul McCarthy.

Nov. 3, 2000	THE NEW LATIN COOL by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Salomon Huerta turns his brush from heads to houses.

Oct. 10, 2000	HERMAN MONSTER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp L.A. artist Roger Herman lives life large.

Sept. 27, 2000	THE TERRIBLE TRIALS OF MRS. T by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Konstantin Kakanis takes on the contemporary art world.

Sept. 9, 2000	BODY BEAUTIFUL by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Celebrity photographer Pat York finds inspiration in the strangest places.

July 12, 2000	CONTRARY COLOR by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The sultry abstractions of Las Vegas artist Yek.

May 31, 2000	GHOST ARCHITECTURE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The uncanny photos of James Casebere.

Apr. 27, 2000	MINIMALIST FANTASIA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The idiosyncratic, oversized sculpture of Robert Therrien.

Mar. 28, 2000	LEARNING TO DRAW by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp British painter Leon Kossoff looks to Nicolas Poussin.