Lita Albuquerque transformed the Orange County community of Laguna Beach in November for the Laguna Art Museum’s (LAM) second annual Art + Nature. This multidisciplinary event/happening/festival showcased Albuquerque, who is known for her ethereal works of art,...
“This Kind of Face,” Siri Kaur’s exhibition at the Cohen Gallery, reveals both the artifice inherent in the medium of photography and its ability to capture truth, however elusive and subjective it might be. Kaur’s photographic subjects are professional impersonators...
Sayre Gomez’s solo offering at François Ghebaly Gallery, “I’m Different,” trumpets its title’s adolescent battle cry across two galleries of new work. Speakers disguised as Froot Loop-hued boulders pipe in the Top 40 from every corner of “The Hypnotic Presence of...
Factories are not settings that usually inspire meditative or poetic work, but for artist Surabhi Saraf, the connection makes perfect sense. Saraf, who was born in Indore, India, grew up playing around the machinery and workers at her parents’ pharmaceutical factory....
London is one of the world’s leading centers for contemporary art and also has a history that reaches back beyond Roman times. It’s a place of contradictions, home to great financial and cultural institutions, fine universities and wonderful buildings, as well as to a...
It seems the art critics think Andy Warhol’s Shadows painting (1978-79) at MOCA is the worst he has ever done—meaningless disco junk! One has to ask, if it is so terrible why would such a smart artist need 102 canvases to complete the series? Warhol himself called the...
If you follow current art world news, no doubt you’ve noticed the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation popping up more frequently. Two of their initiatives, the Emerging Curator Competition and the Artist as Activist grant program opened for submissions in September and...
Art Basel is a world unto itself; as the 13th year of the art fair rolled through Miami in early December to strong sales, completing a re-bound from the 2008 market drop, its massive influx of cash, glamour, international speculators and celebrity have triumphantly...
There has long been a history of poets and painters collaborating, and in many instances, as was the case with poet Robert Duncan and Jess, sharing their lives together. Michael Duncan’s recent curatorial efforts on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art have...
Dan McCleary has long been a favorite artist of mine. My father even owns one of his drawings! His recent exhibition at Craig Krull features a series of paintings that employ masterful painting strategies like the Golden Mean while also imbuing his images with...
It was not by accident that the ‘hub’ of the 2014 FotoFocus biennial in Cincinnati was given over to Instagram, augmented by satellite displays throughout the city, including Cincinnati’s Memorial Hall and the hotel where I stayed during my visit there. (The actual...
The hoopla at Art Basel Miami is winding down. Whew. What a week of VIP this, VIP that, gale force rain and untold millions of dollars of museum quality art being sold from inside tents. If you tire of the big mama fair, there are others to discover, depending on your...
It has not escaped me that the order of these posts keeps keeps getting juggled as one thing or another interrupts the chronological flow. (Or perhaps it’s the ‘controversial’ flow—as controversy is what frequently drives this conversation forward.) But occasionally...
Remember Wood Shop? Well, Matt Rosenquist certainly does. And he has created an incredibly appealing, often humorous group of sculptures at the Glike Gallery in Culver City. With titles like Suburban Punk Rock Girl (2014), these works are rough around the edges for...
I will not lie, Jim Hodges is one of my favorite artists, and the reasons why are innumerable. Like the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote, allow me to “count the ways.” His recent retrospective at the Hammer Museum, entitled "Give More Than You Take"...
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Don Vito Corleone to Johnny Fontane, The Godfather (Paramount, 1972) written by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, from the novel by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. As visitors to this blog are aware,...
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch seem to have channeled the Bauhaus’ Oskar Schlemmer—not an easy task, but one certainly worth considering. Working in the vein of sculptural theater, Fitch and Trecartin have created a strangely alluring alternate universe using “a...
Pitzer College's exhibition, "Racial Imaginary," the visual art component of a larger project that includes a book of essays, musings and poems, demonstrates the fecundity of race and identity for artists of all media and aesthetic proclivities. The featured artists...
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