ALL GROWN-UP: Made in L.A.
Made in L.A. Reflects Breadth and Maturity
Climate experts have yet to advance their science to a point where we might seriously contemplate climate management, but if they ever do, they might…
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Phyllis Diller’s Greatest Work of Art: Herself
Anything for a Laugh
I always thought that Phyllis Diller’s public/comic persona (the hair, the toothy smile, the A-line dresses and feathery accessories, gloves, booties, cigarette and holder) was…
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Silly Putty – The Selling of Jeff Koons
Feeding the Bubble Juggernaut
One thing that came across in Jeff Koons’ recent Broad-sponsored (“Un-Private”) conversation with John Waters was a sense of the satisfaction Koons took from his…
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To Protect & Serve: Philippe Vergne
New director Philippe Vergne relies on conversations and trust
The word he kept returning to was “conversation,” which, under less pressing circumstances, might have described our interview, except that Philippe Vergne, MOCA’s new director,…
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B. Wurtz
Richard Telles Fine Art / Los Angeles
Even more than, say, Richard Tuttle, to whom he might (uneasily) be compared—B. Wurtz tests a viewer’s relationship to objects and construction of their meaning,…
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Profile: Marisol Rendón
The Toxic Elixir of Hope
As I meandered through Marisol Rendón’s installation, “So, Dragons Do Exist?” at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles gallery last summer (this was before I had…
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An Evening with Jeff Koons and John Waters
The Dark Side of A Shiny Dog
[Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, February 24, 2013] ‘The best defense,’ as the old saying in legal and sporting circles goes, ‘is a good offense.’ John…
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Exile off the Strip: Dave Hickey
Dave Hickey at Grand Central Market, downtown Los Angeles, January 29, 2014
So like a few of you (not many more—which was wise—you really didn’t miss anything), I went down to the Grand Central Market at 3rd and Broadway downtown…
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Opera for the Masses
Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities
There’s something suggestive of time travel as well as terrestrial travel in The Industry and LA Dance Project’s production of Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities—adapted from…
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Farrah Karapetian
Between a Rock and Ice
It’s been a productive year for Farrah Karapetian, a participant in “The Black Mirror” group show at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery, L.A. Louver’s 2013 “Rogue…
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Iva Gueorguieva
ACME. / Los Angeles
The title of Iva Gueorguieva’s show “Spill/Frame” seemed almost a naked admission of its strategies and ambition with a concomitant risk of crashing, careening failure….
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DESTINY TRUMPS DESTINATION
The Shifting Geography of LA Art Commerce
La Cienega Boulevard, as it traverses Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Los Angeles, appears not to have changed much over the last few decades, until…
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Florian Morlat
Cherry and Martin / Los Angeles
There are two clues Florian Morlat is up to something different with his show(s) at Cherry and Martin, which held court there for two months….
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Hooking up with Margie Schnibbe
LA STUDIO VISIT
Margie Schnibbe has a jungle thing going on in the front reception area of her house, as it seems to be filling with artsy-crafty sculptures…
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Catherine Opie
Regen Projects / Los Angeles
Catherine Opie enunciates the intentions and ideas behind her current body of 2012-2013 works with the first two images the viewer encounters—one a portrait, the…
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THERE IS SOMETHING VERY REASSURING—;for someone whose attention, unless riveted by something truly compelling, tends to wander—about being told by her interviewee, “I pride myself…
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