New York Post Art star Jeff Koons triumphantly opened a massive retrospective at the Whitney this week, the museum’s last before it moves downtown.But less than 10 blocks away, he’s undertaking another huge project that’s been years in the making: combining two Upper...
Wall Street JournalThe Los Angeles-basedGrammy Museum is beginning to raise money for a traveling EDM exhibit that it plans to curate in partnership with art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, the former head of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where he curated a sweeping...
Our eyes are drawn to remnants and remains in recent years – the ancient, outmoded, rejected, the discarded; remnants of the industrial 19th century, the post-industrial 20th, even the proto-digital cyber age that preceded the present within the millennial memory...
John TottenhamJohn Tottenham, who regularly graces Artillery’s pages with his near orgasmic wit and verbal subterfuge, is a fantastic artist, though in typical self-deprecating style, he might in fact tell you otherwise. “The Indifferent Sublime” is, well, truly...
If you have not seen Ryan Trecartin’s videos, imagine flipping at break-neck speed through 500 channels of reality TV contestants in garish makeup reading random fragments of text from the Internet out loud. More readily, you could also just go check them out on Vimeo...
One thing that came across in Jeff Koons’ recent Broad-sponsored (“Un-Private”) conversation with John Waters was a sense of the satisfaction Koons took from his work as a bond salesman and commodities trader on Wall Street. His fascination with commercial exchange...
Curbed LAEveryone knows by now that rents across Los Angeles are shooting up wildly, but the story with the nonprofit Santa Monica Museum of Art at Bergamot Art Stationis something else altogether:. . . READ MORE
And the vampire pendulum swings back to another extreme: vile, wretched, diseased and genocidal. The FX channel is due to air The Strain this July based on a trilogy written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan: The Strain (2009), The Fall (2010), and Night Eternal...
Koi No Yokan IIImagine meeting someone, and knowing that you will one day fall madly in love with that person, and you have mastered the Japanese concept of Koi No Yokan. Love is not immediately activated, as in the American sense of “love at first sight,” but becomes...
“The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988” at MoMA showcases more than 300 pieces by the groundbreaking Brazilian artist Lygia Clark whose ultimate emphasis was on the sensorial experience of art. Altering the viewer’s perception and experience of her objects permeates...
The GuardianA photograph in a Guardian article about Soho photographer John Deakin has been revealed as a picture of artist Francis Bacon in drag. However, there is still a cleavage issue ….. . . READ MORE
Celebrity can be problematic. In fact, celebrity is one of the most poisonous influences on individual and collective human psychology at work in contemporary society, undermining the concept of individual creative autonomy as it unilaterally erases millennia-old...
Luke ButlerI can see Luke Butler hanging out with Montgomery Clift and Liz Taylor, sipping daiquiris by the lake-house with not a care in the world, but then all great movies must come to “an end.” Butler specializes in these two powerfully evocative little words...
As regular visitors to awol are familiar with by now, I tend to veer off the track a bit, linger a bit too long over this curiosity or that novelty (hopefully without pushing you all into a full-blown meditation – I assume you have your own facilitators for that), or...
Materially Defined All art has corporeal form, and must be “made” of something, and in the case of “Materially Defined,” at CMay Gallery, the literal materials themselves dictate the greater metaphorical meaning of the individual works in the exhibition. Macha...
Rachel Kastor: Ambitious ImplementsRachel Kaster creates startlingly effective visual conversations between seemingly disparate objects including glass, found wood and bronze. Many of Kastor’s visual relationships depend on tangible visceral associations; glass is so...
Jim Jarmusch’s recent release, Only Lovers Left Alive, is not a successful film in the conventional sense; yet I wonder now whether I should cherish it all the more for that very reason. I think my chief complaint about it is that it’s not a successful script – which...
I am so glad I made sure to see the just-visiting Jackson Pollock painting at the Getty before it leaves this weekend—I did procrastinate a little. The painting, Mural (1943) has been at the Getty for an extended facelift. It’s now beautifully restored and has been on...
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