Hollywood ReporterVergne is the second Dia head to helm a major Los Angeles institution --Michael Govan, current head of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is a Dia directorial alum as well. . . . READ MORE
ReutersCooper Union will officially start charging its undergraduates tuition, after the Board of Trustees rejected a 54-page report compiled by a Working Group of alumni, staff, students and trustees that outlined a plan to keep the school free.. . . . READ MORE
Joshua Aster: Innerverse at Edward Cella Gallery The title of Joshua Aster’s elegant and masterful show, Innerverse, at Edward Cella Gallery expresses both the complexity and lyricism that is at the heart of Aster’s artistic practice. These paintings, all oil on...
B.A.T. (Bon à Tirer | Good to Go) at Offramp Gallery Offramp Gallery delivers another strongly engaging and most definitely feminist tour de force that showcases prints by women artists and El Nopal press. The lineup includes artists like Carolyn Castano and Linda...
New York TimesLarry Clark’s lurid portraits of teenage sex, violence and drug taking hang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Now, Mr. Clark, as a kind of thank you to the fans who have made...
Billboard Madonna has tapped Katy Perry as guest curator for Art for Freedom, her online public art project that encourages artists to submit videos, music, poetry and photographs to express their take on freedom. . . . READ MORE
Dear Readers,My mother always told me, “It’s a man’s world.” I vividly remember her saying that to me when I was crying in my bedroom after my boyfriend stood me up. Mom consoled me with those words, while patting my head and wiping away my tears. She also told me...
James Welling’s “Flowers” (2004–11) suggest backlit tree branches in bloom against a blank sky. A pure white light appears to pass through these elegant arrangements of shadowy stem, leaf and petal shapes, and in the process is refracted, as if by a prism, into...
Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Through photographic works, videos, installations, performance and writing, she has become known for critically engaging the tropes of art history and modernism, with a particular eye toward resurfacing...
Painted on a small particle board, screwed to a brick wall, above and behind which Berlin’s U-Bahn (here elevated) rumbles to and from its terminus, a figure of indeterminate sex holds a power drill to its head, the bit twirling out the opposite temple in a splash of...
Summer of 1965. The artist’s mother, Resia (also an artist), stands between her two daughters wearing a sleeveless shift with a bold daisy pattern. The horizon line of the Atlantic connects the heads of the three women, who pose, smiling and relaxed, in front of a...
I was sitting in my car when I heard that Lou Reed had died. The announcer went on to say that although Reed was not as famous as the Beatles or the Eagles, blah, blah—I almost rear end the car in front of me. Not as famous as the milquetoast-I-Wanna-Hold-Your-Hand...
Surveying advanced art from Mexico City during the last quarter century, “México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990” includes the work of 22 artists, mostly in their 30s and 40s, and one collective. The fact that several artists are not native Mexicans demonstrates...
There’s a scene early on in the film The Night of the Iguana (1964) where Richard Burton, playing a jaded ex-priest-turned-tour-guide in Mexico, asks the bus driver to stop on a bridge. The passengers—a group of American matrons—are puzzled. “What are we stopping...
“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures,” at New York’s New Museum is the artist’s first major exhibition in the U.S. in over 25 years. A legendary provocateur, Burden has challenged traditional concepts of art through his galvanizing performance pieces and later...
In 1968, Beatle Paul McCartney approached Richard Hamilton, inventor of Pop Art, to design the cover for the follow-up LP to the game-changing Sgt. Pepper album of the previous year. Hamilton came up with a typically droll and elegant solution by taking the opposite...
With all of the recent excitement about the NSA it seemed like a good time to feature the work of The Surveillance Camera Players. Since 1996 this group has been staging plays for security cameras. Their productions have included Waiting for Godot, 1984 and Ubu Roi....
Forty years after his death, Henry Darger remains one of America’s most polarizing artists. Given that he died unknown and virtually friendless, it is a testament to the power of his work that people are still arguing over what it all means. The very reason we know he...
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