Miyoshi Barosh: Feel Better at Luis De Jesus Imagine a bunch of felines on acid, driving through downtown Los Angeles in a supped up Caddy sipping martinis, purring to Lady GaGa and you’ve acquired just a taste of Miyoshi Barosh’s fantastical and scathing...
“Racist Chair” outrage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The GuardianRussian socialite, Dasha Zhukova, sparks outrage with 'racist chair' photograph where she is pictured sitting on a contorted, near-naked mannequin of a black woman. . . READ MORE
Adventures in art-market commodification, enhanced hammer edition
Reuters: FELIX SALMON“Business art” has arguably come to be the dominant form of art in our time. Today, this juggernaut of commodity-based art drives not only the way art is made, but also the way it’s promoted, marketed, sold, and, ultimately, understood both by...
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program application deadline set for March 31
Well known by artists as the "Gift of Time", the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide gifted studio based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for a whole year....
Elaine Wynn revealed as buyer of world’s most expensive painting
AFA NewsThis past November, Francis Bacon’s triptych ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ sold for $142 million at Christie’s in New York, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Rumors swirled after the buyer’s name was not immediately revealed, with...
Philippe Vergne named MOCA Director
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
Shoulda Coulda Woulda! Cooper Union Free Pass Over
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
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.
at Offramp Gallery
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...
Larry Clark Sells Snapshots for $100 Each
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...
Katy Perry to Guest Curate Madonna’s Art for Freedom Project
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

Editor’s Letter
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...

Tripping the Light Fantastic
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...

Super Inequality
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...

Field Report: Berlin
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...

Notes from Underground
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...

RETROSPECT: Lou Reed
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...

México Inside Out
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...