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Larry Johnson
Untitled (Movie Stars on Clouds) (detail)
1982/84
private collection

DARK STAR
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

July 9, 2009

The week that the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles opened its survey of 60 photographs by Larry Johnson, the newspapers were saturated with celebrity death: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. All were icons who died amid revelations of bankruptcy, booze and drugs. The wall-to-wall media coverage of heir deaths was a fitting accompaniment to the preoccupations of Johnson’s art.

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Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Archives

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.