Beyond Rebels site launch by GCAC Writer/Critic-in-Residence

Beyond Rebels is a cultural history project by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, artist-in-residence at Grand Central Art Center (GCAC).  Her new website, BeyondRebels.com, is meant to expand upon the narrative of her popular book, Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s.  In interviews, articles, and photographs, she will continue to explore issues of postwar modern and contemporary art in Southern California.  Her first blog concerns the brief and tumultuous history of art museums in the Southern California area with the first in-depth interview with L.A. County Museum of Art director Michael Govan, who discusses the Peter Zumthor design of the new structure.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a writer and critic with a concentration on modern and contemporary art. Since her beginning as art critic for the L.A. Weekly in 1982, her writing has been inspired by a desire to study, verify and expand the many unexplored or misunderstood aspects of history and culture in Southern California and the West.

She is the author of many catalogues and books: Rebels in Paradise: Los Angeles and the 1960s (2011), Sensual Mechanical: The Art of Craig Kauffman (2013), Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered (2000) and Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe (2004), considered the definitive biography to date of the artist. Since 1980, she has been written for a large number of publications, most frequently for the L.A Times, Artnews, Artnet, Architectural Digest and Wallpaper*.

In addition to her work as a writer, she has hosted radio shows on art for Artscene, KUSC and KCRW, where she was a weekly critic from 2011 to 2019. As West Coast curator for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution from 2013 to 2016, she conducted dozens of oral histories and collected the primary papers of dozens of prominent people in the California art scene. In addition, she was chair of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Otis College of Art and Design from 1986 to 1995.

site is scheduled to go live on Tuesday, December 3rd:
BeyondRebels.com