Jacci Den Hartog
Rosamund Felsen Gallery
Even mountains deserved to be loved. I don’t mean literally of course, but metaphorically the mountain represents a force to be reckoned with, and hopefully,…
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Kochi Muziris Biennale
"Whorled Explorations" in Malabar Coast of Kerala, South India
The second edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale held on the Malabar Coast of Kerala, South India, kicked off with great fanfare. Thunderous music at…
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Benoît Maire at Kiria Koula Gallery
San Francisco
In his first solo show in the U.S., French artist Benoît Maire includes a video presented on a MacBook showing an image of another MacBook…
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Anish Kapoor
Regen Projects
Anish Kapoor is a master in “organic monumentality.” Working with literal organic matter including pigments and earth as well as nonorganic substances including resins and…
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Follow My Gurney—My Week After A Fashion: February 17-21, 2015
What I’m seeing, reading, hearing—or just putting up with.
Every once in a while (on those rare occasions when we’re away from our favorite gun clubs, firing ranges and ammunition shops), I’ll run into…
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Jason Yates
c.nichols project
Jason Yates is preternaturally disposed to emulate, extrapolate and thoroughly and passionately investigate anything that relates to pop culture, therein creating his newest foray into…
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Sundance: Part 3
From the Inside Looking Inside
Time was running out for me and I had to experience some of the goggle hype at the New Frontier installation space. It’s a kind…
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Plainly To Propound
Gavlak Gallery
Poet Wallace Stevens, in his seminal poem “Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction,” eschews a literal interpretation of anything, vying instead for a Greenbergian-like approach to…
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Sundance: Part 2
From the Inside Looking Inside
I’m unclear what happened next but I do know after not getting into some parties (BET) and getting into others we ended up at the…
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Between Earth and Sky: Anish Kapoor
Regen Projects, through March 7, 2015
There’s always a bit of suspense walking into an exhibition of Anish Kapoor’s work. At this point in the artist’s career, we may have certain…
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Festival of (In)appropriation #7
UNDER THE RADAR BY DOUG HARVEY
As I may have mentioned before, collage—in spite of lip service to artists from Picasso/Braque to Hannah Hoch to Rauschenberg to Elliott Hundley—remains under-acknowledged as…
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We all know about the parasitic commerciality at Sundance. The festival desperately clinging to their long forgotten outsider status: the overpriced condos, the jello shot…
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Keith Haring’s Political Line
Taming the Beast
Offering a more complete picture of the artist than the one beloved in popular imagination, “Keith Haring: The Political Line,” at the de Young in…
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Flea Circus of Books: Printed Matter’s L.A. Art Book Fair
[The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Little Tokyo – closed]
There may have been a ‘great thing’ or two (literally) amongst the millions of pages on display at the Geffen; but good luck finding them. …
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