Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969 - 1972 Revisted, will be closing this week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

This controversial piece has drummed up all sorts of opinions in the art world, including Holly Myer’s review in the LA Times, Edward Goldman’s “Be Warned: This Art Makes You Want To Throw Up” & William Pounstone’s “Who’s Afraid of ‘Five Car Stud’”.

On the occasion of this historical exhibition, a beautiful catalogue has been published, which is now available for purchase from the LACMA Shop -

Continuing onward, Five Car Stud will travel to the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark 6 July 2012 - 21 October 2012.

We are also pleased to announce Kienholz Before LACMA, a forthcoming exhibition at L.A. Louver, opening 24 January 2012. Produced in collaboration with Maurice Tuchman, Kienholz Before LACMA features works produced between 1957 - 1964.

“In these works from 1957-1964, we can see how Ed evolves from making work in two dimensions, to three; from abstraction to figuration; from the use of language stanzas as in poetry, to narrative storytelling as in journalistic prose… This exhibition sets out to explore the formal development of Ed Kienholz’s work in the studio through this carefully selected group of paintings, constructions and sculpture. The ‘primordial sources’ of Kienholz’s making are all here: the painting gesture and the employment of resin, found objects, taxidermy, light, and figuration…” - Peter Goulds

Learn more on Five Car Stud at http://www.lalouver.com/html/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=669  and mark your calendar for Kienholz Before LACMA.