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The Power of Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Proverbial Portraiture by Kate Caruso When I talk with Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, his smiling face lights up the video conference window as he speaks of joy. He hopes to bring joy to the subjects of his portraits, and to those that...

March/April 2020

March/April 2020

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John Baldessari (1931–2020)

An Appreciation

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The other day Larry Johnson had an idea. He thought we should organize something for John. His plan was to have an artist thing. Dealers… Read More

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Studio Visit with Lisa Diane Wedgeworth

CELESTIAL GEOMETRIES

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Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is one of LA’s talented mid-career artists whose work steadily and forcefully moves to the foreground of our consciousness with its thoughtful… Read More

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Life in the Cracked Lane

Under the Radar

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Before a few weeks ago, as far as I know, I had never had direct communication with anyone who’d even heard of The Rev. Dr. Fred Lane… Read More

September/October 2019

September/October 2019

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Creative Inferno: Mr. Chow

Restaurateur/Artist Mr. Chow Sets Off Smoke Alarms

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Before I interview Mr. Chow, he sets my copy of his book on fire. After smashing large Sharpies onto a blank page of the book… Read More

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California Dreaming: Go West Gallerists

Go West Gallerists

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The Los Angeles art world is far from monolithic, but if there’s one thing you are certain to overhear at every gathering, it’s an expression… Read More

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Mindful Parking: 5 Car Garage

5 Car Garage Has Spots for Spatial and the Spiritual

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5 Car Garage is located in an alleyway in a residential neighborhood in Santa Monica. While it is not far from Bergamot Station, visitors to… Read More

July/August 2019

July/August 2019

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APOCALYPSE NOW: Venice Biennale 

Venice Biennale Reckons with Troubled Times

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The malaise of our times is encapsulated and iterated over and over in this year’s Venice Biennale—whether racial conflict, gender redefinition, women’s rights, immigration, environmental… Read More 

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Mexico City: Bursting with Vitality 

Mexico City’s sprawling and dizzying art scene

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On a narrow one-way street in San Miguel Chapultepec, it’s impossible to miss the disparate wood-paneled exterior of Kurimanzutto. Surrounded by modernist apartment buildings in… Read More 

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David Hammons 

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

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David Hammons, an infamously reclusive yet pervasive figure, is undoubtedly a pioneer and solidified staple of the art world. His thought-provoking work permeates the visual… Read More 

May/June 2019

May/June 2019

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American Monument 

Remembering As a Form of Resistance

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The University Art Museum (UAM) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) recently hosted artist lauren woods’ (lower case intentional, per the artist) project, American… Read More 

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Food Justice For All! 

The Right to Eat Healthy In Los Angeles

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In 1969, the Black Panther Party began its Free Breakfast for Children Program in Oakland, CA, providing healthy meals to hungry school kids in disenfranchized… Read More 

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Blurring the Border 

Crafts Cross Lines in Time and Space

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In concurrent exhibitions at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles–based artists Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza resist political declarations of border wall funding emergencies that reflect converging… Read More 

 

March/April 2019

March/April 2019

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Acts of Selfhood: Female Performance Artists 

Los Angeles Performance Artists Explore Identity

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If the art world is a microcosm of our society at large, then the performance stage presents a unique opportunity for artists to write or… Read More 

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Zoe Leonard’s Politics and Photos 

Winners (i.e. Women) Take All

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Right from the start, “Zoe Leonard: Survey,” a career-spanning exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, establishes the artist’s role as an… Read More 

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Disgusting Feminist: Alicia McDaid 

Instagram Artist Likes it Her Way

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I rarely get out to galleries these days and often resort to Instagram for my visual fix. Like the internet itself, it’s a seemingly endless… Read More 

January/February 2019

January/February 2019

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After The Price of Everything

Or, Why the Art Market Bubble Doesn’t Matter

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As we raked through ashes in California, reminded that we had already entered an anthro-obscene geological epoch, the most “important” of the Fall 2018 art… Read More

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Wild Ride: Richard Prince

Michael Govan’s Fascination with Rogue “Cowboy Artist Richard Prince

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Last year, even as LACMA Director Michael Govan was in the midst of storing the collection off site so that demolition of older buildings could… Read More

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The View From Jeffrey Deitch’s Hill

Something’s Happening Here

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“People I have great admiration for, people in my own circle, they just keep coming to Los Angeles. All the key people, and they just… Read More

 

November/December 2018

November/December 2018

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BEYOND MOOD: Yunhee Min 

Paintings Plunge into Subjective Color

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Yunhee Min’s work at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects last summer follows an earlier body of work similar in style, “Movements” at her New York… Read More 

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Finger Paint: Vera Arutyunyan 

The Raw Exuberance

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Vera Arutyunyan coats her canvases with pigment and passion. For much of her 25-year artistic career, the Armenian-born artist’s bold abstract oil paintings have been… Read More 

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The Haunted Objects of Ariana Papademetropoulos 

Portals to Parallel Realms

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On an old oak-lined Pasadena avenue, I’m standing before an imposing wrought-iron gate to a stately Tudor mansion. In dappled afternoon sunlight twinkling beneath breezy… Read More 

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