Our favourite art moment scene from season 4 of Louie featuring Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon.
Louie C.K.: The Art Gallery Scene
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Jake Ziemann
Jake Ziemann's elegantly understated sculptural works on view at Shulamit Nazarian are as delightfully witty as they are beautifully constructed. Ceramics is witnessing a renaissance lately, particularly in Los Angeles, and it is a real pleasure to come across an...
Various Small Fires: Amy Yao
There are 15 pieces in Yao's show “Bay of Smokes,” but one work transcends its counterparts so glowingly that it's hard not to long for a one-work show. Or at least with a caveat: one work per room. The piece in question, called Doppelgängers (all works 2016), is a...
Jason Vass: Mark Dutcher
With his new solo show, “Time Machine” at Jason Vass, Mark Dutcher seeks to convey through his paintings various subjective and illusory experiences, starting with a moment of supreme clarity he felt as he stood before the Susan Rothenberg painting Blue Bars at LACMA...
CLAUDIA PARDUCCI : The Space Between Us
In The Space Between Us Parducci investigates images of disaster sites. This imagery signifies a continued investigation of prior concerns as Parducci has long been interested in the desperation that is born of catastrophe and violence. Her 2007-2011 “Survival...
That’s Entertainment: Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis at Gagosian
Arriving at the 2016 edition of Gagosian's pre-Oscar show felt like arriving at LA’s hottest nightclub with an eclectic line that stretched down the block and around the corner complete with hungry paparazzi waiting at the entrance. Inside the gallery was an...
Cy Twombly; a selection of works on paper, 1957-1984
Cy Twombly’s suite of stunningly chaotic and gorgeously rendered free-form drawings at c.nichols project would stop any viewer dead in their tracks. These are ferociously contemporary works that are mandatory viewing for anyone interested in modern art in any...
Meliksetian | Briggs: Meg Cranston
Bubblegum colors and an interest in the mundane are threads that unite the seemingly unrelated pieces in “Pizza, Bagpipe, Carburetor” by Meg Cranston. The show’s conceptual gambit—subject matter selected by Cranston using an internet-hosted random noun generator, an I...
MAK Center: Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm’s "One Minute Sculptures" at The MAK Center is crammed with critically disruptive content, though at first glance there’s not much to look at. In a literalized enactment of the Duchampian observation that “the viewer completes the art,” visitors to Wurm’s...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Readers You’ve heard the one about how sculpture is something you bump into when backing up to look at a painting. An old boyfriend who was a sculptor told me that joke.He also told me the story about how Louise Bourgeois was at a high power dinner with an...
The Thing
The “death of painting” is frequently traced to the work and writing of Donald Judd. In 1965's “Specific Objects,” the same essay in which Judd outlined painting’s limitations—above all, its inherent illusionism—he even more forcefully predicted the death of...
FILM: Troublemakers
Land Art, also known as Earth Art, emerged in the period that was, with hindsight, clearly one of the most radical, innovative, experimental and groundbreaking periods in the history of art. The genre is part of a much wider trend that falls under the umbrella of...
Mud Gets Off the Ground
Ceramics is again making a major splash in the world of fine arts. Way back in the 1950s Peter Voulkos pushed ceramics into that realm, with his Abstract Expressionist pieces of cut and contorted clay slabs, followed by the works of his students (among them, John...
Fueled by Youth
The sculptures of Sergio Garcia contain an otherworldly essence. Like relics from an alternate dimension created by Salvador Dali, Henry Darger and Kaz Oshiro, Garcia’s surreal concoctions teeter on the brink of absurdity and play with the experience of living and...
Alternate Empires
As a student, seeking respite from the relatively hidebound painting department, I often retreated to the sculpture studios. There, the critical gaze of teachers seemed less intense; sculpture students did as they pleased. Around that time about a decade ago, I took...
ART BRIEF
Stefan Simchowitz is a controversial figure in the art world. He doesn’t own an art gallery yet maintains a large network of art collectors. He eloquently expounds upon art theory but is not associated with an art institution. He provides advice and monetary support...
UNDER THE RADAR
We are in the midst of the information age, with archives and libraries overflowing, and records piling up like plastic in the ocean. How does personal value translate to cultural value, or is it the same thing? Who decides what is worth preserving? How should...
PUBLIC DISPLAY
Where cities are being built up and money spent, local legislation has often passed a percent-for-art program; alternately, cities look to create stable partnerships between the public and private sectors, so some of that money is made available for public art, too....
