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RECONNOITER
Dr. Lourdes I. Ramos was recently appointed as President and CEO of the Museum of Latin American Art in May. Previously, she served as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico for 12 years. She is the first Latina to hold the position...
KENNY SCHARF
"Kenny Scharf: Blox and Bax" at Honor Fraser gallery in Culver City this past spring. This was Scharf's fifth exhibition with Honor Fraser, featuring back-by-popular-demand performance artist and BFF Ann Magnuson. The crowd was abuzz, art stars aligned, vivid colors...
MOCA GALA 2017
The Netherlands
Holland has an illustrious past and rich history in art, from golden age painters Rembrandt and Vermeer through modernist legends van Gogh, Mondrian and the de Stijl group, Cobra Dutch artists and expatriate Willem de Kooning, to enigmatic Conceptualist Bas Jan Ader,...
Conceptual Museum: Cesar Cornejo
Cesar Cornejo sees artists as outsiders. They confront things that other people won’t—or can’t—see, the Peruvian-born artist told me in an interview in May, three days after the opening of “Building As Ever,” OCMA’s 2017 California-Pacific Triennial. His site-specific...
South of the Border Down Tijuana Way
Tijuana’s most famous contribution to art is the painting of zonkeys: combining donkeys with zebras so the pale Equus would stand out in black-and-white photographs. This is a paraphrased version of what I’m told when I mention I’m heading to Baja for cultural...
Off the Beaten Path in Barcelona
I landed in Barcelona a little sweaty, slightly hung over, and very much lost. Much to my surprise, the discount tickets I purchased for $350 round-trip included three meals, unlimited snacks, and all-you-can-drink beverages (including alcohol). By the end of the...
Living Larger: Lauren Greenfield
In the earliest days of his unlikely, unfortunate campaign for president, billionaire Donald Trump declared in 2015: “Sadly, the American dream is dead,” adding special emphasis on the last word, delivering the bad news like a judge slamming down a gavel. As in many...
Summer of Love Redux
When I moved to San Francisco to begin college nearly a decade ago, the refrain from Scott McKenzie’s 1967 hippie anthem “San Francisco” rang through my ears, beckoning me to the city by the bay with dreams of “flowers in my hair,” but I quickly learned that much had...
Reykjavík in LA
The Reykjavík Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall presents an opportunity to experience a site-specific installation by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir and a film by fellow Icelander Xárene Eskandar. The Festival brings up a larger question of cultural...
DEAD OR ALIVE: Romare Bearden
Peter Saul: Fake News with Lolita Cros
New York, New York, June 27th, 2017: Hôtel Americano’s Salon Americano featured renowned artist, widely referred to as one of the “father’s of pop art” Peter Saul and curator Lolita Cros. The conversation, titled Peter Saul: Fake News, touched on how the artist draws...
Now More Than Always
When Hannah Black wrote in her open letter to the Whitney Biennial curators “it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time,” she did more than bolster a national debate...
Very Appropriate
Warhol Icon Happening
It feels like last summer was a long time ago. What with a year filled with electoral rage politics, acquitted police shootings of black people, the withdrawal from the Paris Accord, the Wall, the reintroduction of the Mexico City Policy, the U.S. Departments of...
USC Pacific Asia Museum Gala
USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM HONORS CHINESE ART COLLECTORS DR. TEI-FU CHEN & DR.OI-LIN CHENAND FASHION DESIGNER TADASHI SHOJI AT ANNUAL GALA. Gala included a live DJ performance by Gingee and a four-song set by indie music artists Run River North. [gallery...
Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space
There’s a scene in Paul Greengrass’s 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum when former CIA operative Jason Bourne/Matt Damon kills a Moroccan man named “Desh” using a book, what appear to be shampoo bottles, and a towel. The death match goes down in a Tangier apartment, and...
Pussy Riot Goes Hawaiian, Part 2
Click Here for Part 1. Art Star and painter Masami Teraoka conceived of a collaboration with Russian performance collective Pussy Riot. These words document their performance in Hawaii. THE NINTH WAVE The marketing of The Tempest was limited to an events...
Pussy Riot Goes Hawaiian
Artist Masami Teraoka said, “Let’s make art!” and they did. Pure art rumbles, bubbles and springs forth, like the eruption of a magnificent geyser. As the plume spray drifts and evaporates in the wind, the beauty of the gesture is the impermanent purpose. A...
Fabien Castanier: LA Intersections
An "intersection" of LA artists, including Artillery Columnist Zak Smith. Come to this Artillery sponsored lively panel discussion led by Zak this Saturday, June 3, from 4-6pm.