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Between Shadow and Illumination – Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
Fresh (if that’s the word for it) from the carbon cycle conundrums posed by the FotoFest 2016 Biennial in Houston, I faced the ambivalence of ‘homecoming’ between LACMA and the Getty Museum, returning to, if not the ‘haunts’ of my mole-dark youth, certainly a few of...
Destroy All Punk
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corré, has issued a press release stating his plans to burn his £5 million punk memorabilia collection in Camden on 26 November, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of punk. The designer said; “When the Queen gives a...
SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of the ’80s in Today’s Contemporary Art
It’s not every day that a public university art museum, outside the Hammer Museum, features an amazing show with cutting-edge artists. So when I saw the "Second Wave" exhibition at UC Riverside where I attend graduate school, I just had to chat with UCR ARTSblock...
Stephanie Pryor and David McDonald
Stephanie Pryor's work continues to evolve and resonate in both the abstract and narrative realm. This most recent suite of paintings are exquisitely lush and suggest more complex narrative relationships as in “Crow Jane,” where a series of small crow heads punctuate...
CB1 Gallery: Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism
The aggressively mimetic realism that crowds this exhibition, curated by one of the gallery’s artists, is exceedingly white. Nearly every work is completed on white paper and color is employed by only four of the fourteen artists included. This makes the exhibition...
Marc Selwyn Fine Art: Channing Hansen
In Channing Hansen's solo gallery debut, which consists of nine large knitted works and one salon-style grid of smaller pieces, traditional stretcher bars are visible behind the gauzy woven materials. For these undeniably engaging works, Hansen acquires, dyes, and...
There Goes the Neighborhood: Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s Grand Opening
On the corner of East 3rd and South Garey lies a blurry line between museum and gallery better known as Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the newest art empire to touch down in Los Angeles. The entire Arts District was overflowing with people and Porsches on Sunday...
SCOTT HOVE : CAKE LAND
Scott Hove's installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even...
“Everything is connected….” – Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet –
AWOL is in Houston this evening – with official leave this time (at least in theory, still leaving no accounting for her invisibility the last two or three weeks in Los Angeles) – at the 2016 FotoFest Biennial. The theme of this year’s Biennial is Changing...
Roberts & Tilton: Evan Trine
Evan Trine's digitally generated photographic works are distillations—works that abstractly reference their sources. Trine sifts through trending online news feeds, reducing or compressing into a single element the images and headlines he finds. The colored grids and...
@leiminspace: Nihura Montiel
Nihura Montiel’s current solo show, “New Paintings,” now on view at @leiminspace in Chinatown delights in mimicking the various plush terrycloths and fabrics that function as fetish objects in her critique of misunderstood femininity. Her paintings of Cinderella,...
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Black Mountain College was for a short time a hotbed of collaboration and inspiration among the very best and most gifted artists and poets of the 20th Century. "Leap Before You Look" at the Hammer Museum gives us an unerring glimpse into the world of artists whose...
This Is Disruption: A Brief History of Drag
If the thought of attending any kind of opening party inside a quiet public library sounds odd to you, that's because it is. And it was. Until the Queens arrived. The drinks were poured and DJ Ambrosia Salad blasted "Funky Town" through her speakers to the obvious...
Barbara Hepworth & Henry Moore
Jeremy Deller Serves up a Nude Iggy Pop for the New York Academy of Art
Iggy Pop served as the nude model in a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The session was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by British artist Jeremy Deller. The resulting drawings, created by 21 artists ranging in age from 19 to 80, will...
Stefan Simchowitz in the Why Art? DIEM Panel
DIEM: Talks Design symposium on November 13, 2015, curated by Mallery Roberts Morgan with KCRW's Frances Anderton.New York, Paris, London, LA, Berlin, Hong Kong... in major capitals the big story is art. Why? Is it pure commerce, a new form of spirituality or a branch...
Louie C.K.: The Art Gallery Scene
Our favourite art moment scene from season 4 of Louie featuring Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon.
