The Los Angeles Museum of Art is a DIY structure approximately 100 square-feet situated in the corner of a paved yard in Eagle Rock. Founded and run by the artist Alice Könitz, LAMOA continues in the long line of LA-based artist-run spaces that crop up regularly but...
Death becomes her, there really is no better way to describe Andra Ursuta’s first solo show in the US. Ursuta’s work has been dark, conceptual, sexually-charged and fueled by a death obsession; now fear is the impetus for creating a fictional graveyard in the Hammer...
While painters are often primarily concerned with light effects and the visual, Berkeley-based Judith Belzer’s work also resonates with a haptic sense. Her imagery is felt in the body, in the hands and feet. Recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Belzer explores...
“Rainbow Girls” at Cheim & Read continues Ghada Amer’s inventive strategy of using thread as paint, and needle as paintbrush, but with a marked difference. Bold embroidered stenciled text covers her canvas. Women’s rights and Amer’s stance are as forthright as her...
The overt theme of “Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950,” curated by Terry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, is the presence of destructive force(s) in art since World War II—a trajectory of investigation whose origins in the war (especially its nuclear finale...
John MillsJohn Mills’ recent exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery is compositionally complex and visually challenging. As the title suggests, High On Signs represents the artist’s love affair with line and shape and more importantly perhaps, the iconographic...
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 began early, while still a boy, selling items door to door. He has been fascinated with selling – and what sells – ever since. Critics tend to place undue emphasis on his appropriation of kitsch as subject and substance of his art, sidestepping the more fundamental aspect of the work which is the sell itself: the implicit promise of a chimerical trust, even ‘transcendence’ – something seemingly tangible yet intangible, entirely fungible yet unique to each purchaser.
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...
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