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John Currin
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Between Distance, Denial and Disappearance
It’s a commonplace of the current cultural moment that we have trouble tearing ourselves away from our screens. (Some of us anyway; and for some of us that screen is basically an extension of our desk.) But actually I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. ...
A Guide to Paris Photo LA, 2015
An interview with Paris Photo LA’s new director, Florence Bourgeois, and the new artistic director, Christoph Wiesner, was the first thing on my agenda for the fair this year. I wanted to get from Bourgeois and Wiesner a sense of what changes or innovations they hope...
Altered States
Altered States at Patrick Painter represents yet another collective representation of irrational modes of being where sometimes the simplest gesture is the most oddly satisfying. Comprised of Justin Bower, Martin Kippenberger, Rinus Van De Velde, Valie Export and Mike...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Dumps Gagosian Gallery
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is leaving Gagosian Gallery, which has represented Rauschenberg since the artist's death in 2008. The foundation has dropped the gallery in favor of Pace (New York, London, Hong Kong, and Beijing), which represented Rauschenberg near...
Space Invasion Pop-UP
"Artillery Event in Downtown Chinatown, April 11, 2015" From Space Invasion. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/24/2015 (30 items) Christopher Mercier Steven Wolkoff Maria McAlpine, Stuart Downey, Valerie Broussard, Melissa Karlin Leigh Wendy Susan Lasch Krevitt,...
Promise of New Life at Bates Motel
French artist Vincent Lamouroux has recently taken over Silver Lake’s Sunset Pacific Motel. Prohibitively known by locals as the “Bates Motel,” the condemned structure at Sunset and Bates has been transformed by Lamouroux into a temporal art intervention that will...
Girl/AWOL, Interrupted – the continuing controversies; the classics revisited (1)
We don’t call it ‘AWOL’ for nothing, you know. So while you (and my editors) were all HOWLing for my updates last week – and oh yes, we did have a few – the local art world news was eclipsed by the Los Angeles Review of Books’ publication of Joseph Giovannini’s...
Fred Tomaselli: The Times
The daily newspaper is not quite a thing of the past. For some, it still arrives in printed form each morning at the front door. But the combination of "breaking news" stories and the Internet often makes this printed document obsolete: the web brings current news to...
Enrique Martinez Celaya
Enrique Martinez Celaya is a visionary in the very best sense of the word. I would even go so far as to say his recent exhibition, “Lone Star” at LA Louver is a fierce evocation of humanity, despite the fact the show is mostly populated with birds, both painted and...
Tam Van Tran
Tam Van Tran’s newest exhibition "Exodus" at Susanne Vielmetter represents a meditation on duality wherein forces in nature collide with our own human frailties. These paintings accelerate our sensibilities as colors push forward and break apart, yet it is the tension...
Chitra Ganesh “Eyes of Time”
Chitra Ganesh’s site-specific mural Eyes of Time at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of the Brooklyn Museum recalls the Kitsch Movement of the ’90s. As the child of Indian immigrants living in New York, Ganesh’s art responds to the dearth of her...
Trio: Kathleen Johnson, Laura London, Lisa Rosel
Trio at c. nichols project is a visual exploration into harmony wherein three unique photo-based artists explore their individual visions while also maintaining a harmonious unity amongst each other. Kathleen Johnson’s beautifully mysterious landscapes allude to the...
Howl-ing Through the Years – Howl: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
I might have called it Sit Through This (which, I assure the reader, would have encompassed the best the show had to offer). The 60th Anniversary Celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (not the 50th, mind you; the 50th + 10), took place last night at the fabulous Ace...
Mernet Larsen
Thank God for Mernet Larsen, making art for decades because her life depends on it! Her recent show at Various Small Fires attests to a fiercely independent and imaginative spirit, one that is not swayed by the newest fashion or art world fickleness. She is the “real...
‘That Transparency Thing’ – Blob to Blot, Part II – A Debate Over the New LACMA
[Part I of this post appeared yesterday, following the preceding evening’s Third Los Angeles forum at Occidental College. I continue where I left off – as LACMA’s Director, Michael Govan left the stage to the evening’s host, the forum’s principal organizer, and Los...
Officials probe worker’s death at Gagosian’s $70 million NYC mansion
Page Six An employee of Koenig Iron Works died following a fall at Larry Gagosian’s UES mansion while completing a gut renovation. . . . READ MORE
From Blob to Blot – A Debate Over the New LACMA
And so the Govan/Zumthor/LACMA PR juggernaut thunders on, steamrolling over those skeptical eyes looking over their shoulders from near and far, critics and other local scolds (and possibly its immediate neighbors), to say nothing of its own Board of Trustees, the...
