Licketh The Rainbow at JAUS Rainbows sometimes make me cringe—not that I am inherently opposed to their beauty and deeper metaphoric meaning, but in the wrong hands, they can fall so easily into triteness. Tricky little things those rainbows can be, however the...
Month: November 2013
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“Sponsored Video” Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2013-2014 mentors are chosen
Leading artists from around the world gathered in Venice in October, not for the celebrated biennale, but for a project with even loftier ambitions—the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Launched in 2002 and renewed every two years, the Rolex initiative pairs...
Our Guide to Art Basel Miami
Next week an explosion of art, champagne, and parties descends upon South Florida in the annual blowout that is Art Basel Miami Beach. With all of the events, exhibits and parties at Basel Miami this year, it's hard to decide what to hit and what to miss. So here's...
Newsha Tavakolian
Since she began her career as a photojournalist at the age of 16, Newsha Tavakolian has been capturing the essence of the modern-day Iranian experience through poignant photographs that challenge Western perceptions of the women of the Islamic Republic, while alluding...
Michael Landy
Michael Landy is hardly the kind of artist you would expect to see named artist in residence at London’s National Gallery. For one thing, he’s a charter member of the Young British Artists made famous by Damien Hirst’s legendary "Freeze" exhibition. Known for their...
High Desert Test Sites 2013
I didn’t know what to expect on my first visit to High Desert Test Sites, a series of art installations and performances out in the desert organized by artist Andrea Zittel, Aurora Tang and their team. The most ambitious edition yet, HDTS 2013 featured some 60...
Zackary Drucker, Manuel Vason
at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Zackary Drucker & Manuel Vason at Luis De Jesus Gallery Performance/video artist Zackary Drucker and London-based photographer Manuel Vason have teamed up to create a series of self-reflexive and sometimes enigmatic images shot in Milan in 2010 during one of Drucker’s...
5Pointz Pilgrims: One Last Visit to the Doomed Graffiti Mecca
New York Observer “I’ve been coming here for years. It’s always been a great place where people will get together for art and peace and positive vibes,” said Rhonda Elhosseiny, gazing up at one of the exuberantly graffitied walls of 5Pointz, the Long Island City...
Brooklyn Banksy for Sale in Miami www.telegraph.co.uk/ A broken heart and a graffiti-covered car door will be the first two pieces from street artist Banksy's New York series to go up for public sale next month in Miami. The sale by an artist whose pieces have gone...
‘Monuments Men’ veteran predicts more Nazi-seized art will surface
Reuters When news of a hidden trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich came to light this month, an 87-year-old man in a quiet retirement community in New Jersey straightened a copy of a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on his wall, completely unsurprised. The picture is a...
Kim Rugg
at Mark Moore Gallery
Kim Rugg at Mark Moore Gallery Kim Rugg dismantles and reassembles things—mostly words and images, including newspaper articles, magazines, cereal boxes, stamp and now maps. “Rendering their original content meaningless,” Rugg teases out new and sometimes...
Miguel Osuna at Garboushian Gallery
From Miguel Osuna. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 11/19/2013 (12 items) Miguel Osuna in front of one of his paintings Miguel Osuna Evan Senn Brianna Karrasch, Jason Robinson Herair Garboushian, Michael Arata Abel Alejandre, Herair Garboushian Susan Feldman Tucker Liz...
Martin Mull
at Samuel Freeman
Martin Mull, “State of the Union,” 2013. Oil on linen, 50 x 60in Martin Mull at Samuel Freeman Accurately representing the human experience in this day and age presents unusual complications—mainly because the business of being alive today is painful on a collective...
Eric Nash: Western Noir
“Western Noir,” an exhibition featuring Eric Nash's newest paintings are currently on view at Skidmore Contemporary Art at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. At first glance, his work brings to mind “Old Hollywood” featuring a youthful, yet noir-infused Los Angeles:...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Readers, Cold trickling creeks, running rivers and green woods were my surroundings growing up. That’s where we played as children and partied as teenagers. When I moved to Southern California, the unchanging climate and landscape were a bit unsettling—they still...
FILM: Scott Stark’s Promethean Sparks
In Scott Stark’s The Realist—fresh off premieres at the Toronto and New York film festivals, and screening later this month as part of a REDCAT nano-retrospective of Stark’s three-plus decades of tenacious experimentalism—a gaga pair of drop-dead gorgeous...
Sundry and Complicated
LA’s rise as a major architectural center, chronicled by the Getty Research Institute in Pacific Standard Time’s ongoing and extensive set of shows, is difficult to reconstruct despite the copious evidence. The architectural history of Los Angeles is multifaceted and...
UNDER THE RADAR: Prosthetic Enthusiasms and perverse harnessings
In retrospect, Machine Project—the Echo Park storefront operating for the last decade as a rapid-fire curatorial clearinghouse for founder/director Mark Allen’s tireless curiosity—would seem to have been one of the most influential artistic endeavors of the new...
