Press — Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

The Washington Post (by Sebastian Smee | December 11, 2023) This once-in-a-generation Rothko exhibition is spellbinding.

Mark Rothko Exhibition Trailer (Fondation Louis Vuitton | October, 2023)

Judith Benhamou Reports (Interview of Christopher Rothko on Mark Rothko | October, 2023)

CULTURED Magazine (Legendary Los Angeles collector Billie Milam Weisman offers an inside look at the eclectic works that decorate her home. | July, 24 2023)

Cultured Magazine (by Larry Bell and Billie Milam Weisman | July 24, 2023) Artist Larry Bell Doesn't Trust Art Collectors—Except Billie Milam Weisman The legendary Los Angeles artist talks with collector Billie Milam Weisman about navigating the city that defined their careers.

(by Mat Gleason | October 8, 2022 ) When asked, I tell people, mostly visitors to LA, that the Norton Simon Museum has by far the best collection in Southern California if not the West Coast. But I now must qualify this. If you just want to see twentieth century art, there is nothing that rivals the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation…

(by Sarah Mosqueda | June 28, 2022) Laguna Art Museum’s latest exhibit puts art in black and white Black and white are often defined as complete opposites. When a subject is deemed black and white, it is a euphemism for simple, clear cut and uncomplicated. But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

(by Georgina Adam | February 11, 2022) Billie Milam Weisman could be seen as the keeper of the flame. She is director of the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, set up by her late husband, which houses a remarkable and extensive collection of 20th-century art…

The Legendary Estates Of Beverly Hills Carolwood Drive – Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Reading Eagle (by Ron Schira | December 17, 2017) “Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” viewing through Jan. 14 at the Reading Public Museum, is a presentation of nearly 70 works dedicated to the history of popular culture through the arts. Included in this touring exhibition is a variety of media dating from the movement’s debut in the 1950s through the present.

Hyperallergic (by Scout MacEachron | December 4, 2015) Made in California is a selection of works from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. If you saw Inherent Vice, this is the exhibition version, metaphorically speaking (and unrelated to Thomas Pynchon). The show includes over 100 pieces inspired by Southern California’s breezy, always sunny 1960s art movement the Cool School. A loosely defined group of forward-thinking artists, the Cool School emerged in the late ‘50s and marked the rise of LA’s contemporary art scene. A walk through Made in California, and one feels instantly a bit more LA. Works by Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari are amongst the show’s more prominent pieces.

(by Sarah Cascone | December 2, 2015) “Originally, I was a mover of art,” said Moishe Mana, “but today art is moving me. I’m committed to it, and I love it.” So said the Mana Contemporary founder at an impromptu speech during a dinner celebrating the art center’s new Miami exhibitions

Artnet News | October 20, 2015

(by Kristen Peterson | Wed, Jan 29, 2014) A particularly amazing scene unfolded this week at UNLV’s Barrick Museum, where noted art conservator and curator Billie Milam Weisman worked alongside Jerry Schefcik and Aurore Giguet and an assortment of handlers to remove a giant, vigorous and densely textured abstract painting by Ali Smith...

(by Jill Thayer, Ph.D. | June 11, 2012 | for ARTVOICES Magazine, June/July issue) A number of years ago, I had the privilege to work with curator Billie Milam Weisman during my master’s thesis in presenting the exhibition Made in California: Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

The Art Economist (By Drew Hammond | 2011)

Art Ltd. Magazine (By George Melrod | Sept/Oct 2009)

Spoonbridge And Cherry - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis - Gift of Frederick R. Weisman in honor of his parents, William and Mary Weisman, 1988 © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen