We Don’t Need No Stinking Wall
Mexican Artists Answer Trump
If there is anybody more unpopular in Mexico at the moment than President Enrique Peña Nieto, it is, of course, Donald J. Trump. After a…
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Ana Teresa Fernandez Paints it Away
Border Dissolve
Five years ago, San Francisco–based painter, sculptor and performance artist Ana Teresa Fernández woke from a long night’s sleep with a sudden inspiration: She would…
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Women on the Verge of a Cultural Breakthrough
Collective Hysteria
Kim Abeles’ studio doesn’t have enough chairs, so we have to sit in the adjacent gallery space at the front entrance of the building. Even…
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Nan Goldin, to borrow a phrase from her friend and fellow-artist David Wojnarowicz, has always lived and worked “close to the knives.” Her most recent…
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The Water Bar is Open
Pouring H2O in the service of enlightenment
A lot has changed over the last two years in the world of water. The high level of lead found in children living in Flint,…
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Tony Conrad is one of the unlikeliest figures to be the subject of the kind of late-career historical recontextualization that authenticity-starved hipster youth have made…
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Toba Khedoori: Making it your Own
Museum Guard Provides Insight at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“She’s famous for her use of negative space.” The security guard’s soft voice wafted over to me from the corner of the gallery. I stood…
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Leo Garcia: My Alien Abduction
Highways Performance Space Gallery
Every now and then an artist pops above the horizon line with a private cosmology like the late Mati Klarwein whose Aleph Sanctuary in the…
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Zona Maco Art Fair Report
Latin American window from Mexico City
As every year, since 2004, Zona Maco, one of the most important Latin American art fairs, was carried last week in Mexico City with the…
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Hudson Marquez, alumni of the art group Ant Farm and creator of The Cadillac Ranch, wants to make your sex life better—and it’s not by…
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Exploring the Queer Self
“How Do I Look" at Da Vinci Art Alliance
As of late, queer art exhibitions have been popping up all over America. One such art show is “How Do I Look?: Shifting Representations in…
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Stella Still Intriguing
Frank Stella at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. —Donald Judd, Specific Objects 1965 When…
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Molly Jo Shea: Driven By Fear
Performances that Make you Laugh and Feel
Los Angeles performance artist Molly Jo Shea knows that you’ve got some genuine feelings, you’re just scared to reveal them. If you attend one of…
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Osceola Refetoff: A Room with a View
Fresh Eyes on the Desert
An austere flat horizon is blanketed by intensely blue sky and bracketed by the remnants of an orange window frame, its rectilinear quiet slyly evoking…
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BEST IN SHOW 2016
LA's Top Ten Shows
“My name is called Disturbance,” as Mick Jagger sang in “Street Fighting Man,” and as 2016 careened into 2017, many of us wondered where exactly…
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Melanie Pullen: Pictures of Passion
The Photographer Talks About Insomnia, Ace Gallery and her Soda Pop Boys
Melanie Pullen invites me into her sunny apartment as she cleans up from a party the night before, “This is why I left New York!”…
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