Attending openings every weekend in LA can begin to feel a little monotonous. The same hip circles, lots of 2D art, a glass of wine here, a few fake smiles there, rinse repeat. That is until one Saturday night when you find yourself innocently walking into Culver City...
Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson's collaboration yields surprising relationships among artworks, viewers, and surrounding architecture.Each artist's celebrated inventiveness is amply represented. Collaged from dyed velvet, Apfelbaum's Blue Joni (2016) and Brown Sugar...
Ross Lipman, the legendary film restorationist responsible for preserving the cinematic legacies of Bruce Conner, Kenneth Anger, John Cassavetes, and a cluster of forgotten American neorealist gems including Killer of Sheep and The Exiles, has turned his attention to...
These notes are for Marilyn. “Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs....”William Shakespeare, Richard II, III:2I woke up this morning thinking about death – my own and others’ (including a friend who may be...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
Robert Frank's timeless photographs capture the quintessential human experience, specifically living and working in the city and street culture. This exhibition sponsored by UCLA's Art History Department, gives us a deeper, more profound understanding of Frank's...
Marie Bovo’s formally complex, visually gratifying and meditative photographs invite prolonged looking. What is captured in the viewfinder and the subsequent print is a mere ghost of her true subject, and this mediation or distance interposed between photographer and...
If walking into the crypt-like rotunda of Soka University’s Founders Hall is a bit chilling, entering the world of Natasha and Anushe Shoro is a return to nature. Within the glistening, well-lit space of the Founders Hall Art Gallery, this mother-daughter exhibition...
It feels cliche to talk about the weather in a city where it’s always sunny and weather virtually does not exist, but my God it was such a beautiful night in LA on Saturday that the thought of being inside a stuffy gallery seemed criminal. To remedy that notion we...
Western Project, formerly a brick-and-mortar gallery in Culver City, now puts on pop-up shows in and around Los Angeles. Their most recent migrated to Jaus Gallery, and the results are a grouping of playful, colorful abstractions that aim to please. Beverly Fishman's...
Jesse Mockrin’s recent collection of works are an exercise in aesthetics. Reminiscent of old-master painting techniques (also familiar turf to painter John Currin), the figurative works display Mockrin’s technical skill with soft edges of fingertips and whimsical...
A surreal dreamscape exists inside Ariana Papademetropoulos’ mind. In the current paradoxical time of digital vintage filters on technological apps, Papademetropoulos’ work is a picturesque merger of past and present, with large-scale colorful oil paintings created...
Last week we found ourselves navigating the rainy streets of Hong Kong’s Mid-levels on a Wednesday night en route to Emergency Party hosted by ArtReviewAsia, FlashArt and Leap. We were in town for Hong Kong Art Basel and the promise of a boychild performance was...
Lester Monzon's second solo exhibition with Mark Moore Gallery is titled "SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM," which translates to "If you want peace, prepare for war," and reads as an enigma wrapped within an enigma as these loosely rendered gestural works are also...
When art is construed to be some thing that translates the tension between its physical and visual manifestation and the more complex thinking and barely articulable feeling-processes of the artist, then the sculptural work of Rebecca Ripple should be described as...
Photo-sculptor Jeremy Kidd stares down the clash of the natural with the aerodynamic lines of technology in his bracing installation at the Museum of Art and History at Lancaster. Kidd’s “The Interrupted Landscape” is one of several solo exhibitions currently at MOAH...
In 1985, an anonymous group of women artists interested in exposing gender inequality in the art world formed the Guerrilla Girls, a collective whose members wore guerrilla masks to art events, gave lectures and created posters, ads and stickers to publicize their...
Why is there never nothing to do in the Los Angeles art world? We were hoping for a quiet weekend, but there were just too many openings to avoid them all. We decided to park our vehicle on Highland Avenue and take it from there. First stop was Diane...
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