T’was the 16th of December, and all over Los AngelesEvery creature was stressed, including the angels. Wrapped like burritos in coats, scarves and hats,We swarmed Barnsdall Art Park like grumpy old bats.Isolating ourselves in the auditorium, two-by-two,We awaited...
Doug Aitken sings the earth and cosmos electric in a mid-career retrospective that could be a Pick of the Year exhibition. The Geffen space, which has never looked better, was entirely made over for the show – an immersive odyssey to mirror Aitken’s own process with...
“Nkame,” the Belkis Ayón retrospective at the Fowler Museum, comprised of 43 collography prints, is about the Abakuá, an all-male secret society in Havana, formed by a group of slaves from southern Nigeria. However, there is another layer in Ayón’s body of work.The...
There’s a new smell in town, and the best way to find the source is by following your nose down Grand Avenue to MOCA. Yeah, I thought it was coming from the room of stale, day-old Rothkos too, but it doesn’t take long to figure out that the odor comes from the R.M....
The crowd inside Klowden Mann in Culver City last Saturday was more intriguing than the art that brought them there. One weekend after Art Basel, three weeks until Christmas, and 10 days into December, we felt the effects of the weekend’s predicament for art openings:...
Matthew Rosenquist knows his way around the block. I mean that in every sense. He’s acutely attuned to a certain street culture and attitude in common circulation both in L.A. and elsewhere – a suburbanized (and slightly desperate) vernacular observed not only in...
Currently on display at Culver City’s Anat Ebgi gallery are the familiar, yet intriguing color field paintings of Texas-born, New York-based mixed-media artist Ethan Cook. Taking inspiration from abstract painters such as Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin, here Cook delves...
It was my third day in Miami on my second annual Art Week pilgrimage. I was in the South Tent of Pulse Art Fair with my #squad, chatting in the De Buck Gallery booth with a woman named Mavis Gragg whom I’d met the evening before. We had just listened to a gallery rep...
In Maria Lassnig’s career, we trace a continuously evolving negotiation between the conscious self and the alternately concrete and conceptualized other. The body of Lassnig’s work – evolving over the course of her long career from her first expressionist essays into...
Simone Leigh’s small but impactful show of new work at the Hammer Museum probes the construction of the black female subject within the historical context of the African diaspora. Her aesthetic influences are culled from traditional African and Caribbean visual art...
Artist Keith Walsh is interviewed by Mat Gleason, discussing his art, an art that stands at the crossroads of aesthetics and activism.
Starring: Jacqueline Novak, Max Wittert, Julio Torres, Eric Schwartau, Steven Phillips-Horst, Jacob Berezin, camera by Daniel Rampulla, sound by Spencer Plassman, edited by Steven Phillips-Horst, featuring music by Physical Therapy.Talk Hole is Steven Phillips-Horst...
R. H. Quaytman’s Morning: Chapter 30 has an assertive, unrelenting horizontal presence, but it really represents a kind of constellation – coextensive with the larger universe of associations that populate Quaytman’s entire body of work. That constellation may be...
This was not the first time LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) has hosted an intriguing overnight event in their gallery. But this time, LACE’s partnership with dublab, LA’s super fresh, freeform online radio station, brought the event to new levels of...
Paul Sietsema's works have an aesthetic and intellectual dimensionality and the path through his exhibition is an invitation to put together the pieces of a sophisticated puzzle that juxtaposes the digital and the handmade with a semi-nostalgic nod toward objects from...
Saturday night was a scream at Human Condition’s Almost Closing Party in the abandoned Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center. Once an institution for the ill, the hospital is now an amusement park for sick-minded citizens, such as ourselves. We explored five...
Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren’s And/Or show at the University Art Museum, Cal State University Long Beach channels us toward Keats’ notion of negative capability, or a fertile surrender to paradox and uncertainty, by way of two colliding currents. One induces...
Marilyn Monroe died over 54 years ago, but the culture vultures are still circling her crypt, eyeing the last unturned scraps of her life and career for commercial pickings. But, as the bits of relevant material lessen to nothingness, what is left really, to take from...
Subscribe to our weekly Gallery Rounds Newsletter for new Reviews, Art opps, Art Events, & More every week!