All indications are that Edmund de Waal is a polymath and a scholar. Deferring his place at Cambridge, he apprenticed himself for two years to study ceramics, then graduated with first class honors. In the ’90s he wrote a searching study on Bernard Leach, a prominent...
Someone keeps making an appearance in Eugene J. Martin’s work, and I have no idea who, but I still recognize an old friend. He might be just passing through, with not much in the way of legs on those big orange feet supporting a boxy red body. He might be the...
If sex has been around in art for so long, then why do O’Keeffe’s vulvalistic flowers generate so much special negative attention, as in the phrase, “Yeah, she’s good but I don’t like her—too obvious, too sexual.”? Is this because her sensually-charged paintings of...
London has an ancient history. Londinium was established on the current site of the City of London around 43 AD and served as a major commercial center for the Roman Empire. Since then it’s grown like layers of alluvial rock to create a complex palimpsest that from...
Steampunk is a recent Populist art movement that glorifies unique, handmade objects and fashion from the Brass Age, an era lasting from the first large scale manufacture of nautical brass around 1830 until the mid 1920s, when automobiles no longer used brass fittings....
I spend a lot of time finding ways to make paintings that (I always hope miraculously) look like they aren’t paintings. And then I get what I wish for and they get mistaken in print for collages or computer things or photos of people by journalists who didn’t read the...
“Insights into Architecture,” inspired by architectural photographer Ezra Stoller (1915–2004), who is known for chronicling modernist architecture from the late 1930s to the 1970s was on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum from May 25 to October 6. To comment on...
In a world where art is purchased to display as trophies, it can be hard to remember what a real art patron looks like. While researching my new favorite television station, I stumbled onto somebody who might qualify as the best art patron ever. The station is Classic...
Richard Tuttle said “There are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can’t get a real experience from the world.” David McDonald, whose most recent curatorial effort is...
The recent retrospective of photographer, performance artist and counterculture British punk icon, Linder, at Blum & Poe is a rigorous if somewhat hysterically provocative critique on gender roles, specifically the commoditization of female sexuality. Spanning...
Screenings of Bruce Baillie’s visionary short films are uncommon in the movie capital of the world, to say nothing of the known—or at least the non-academic—universe. A full-blown public retrospective of his work, then, stretched over three nights at REDCAT and the...
The inaugural show at the newly opened Moskowitz Gallery on La Brea Avenue brings together the work of four young and talented artists: Alexa Guargilia, Mitch Weiss, Bill Maass and Adam Moskowitz. Although all four bring distinct technical approaches, distinct visual...
The Palatine Hill, and the Roman Forum beneath it, is a marvelous place to visit if just for the archeology and history. Now a viewer can see how contemporary artists interact with these ruins on a large scale. The exhibition “Post Classici,” curated by Vincenzo...
Gregory Michael Hernandez makes maps, composite environments, deliberate negotiations into our collective humanity as a means of locating what appears to be a seemingly and endlessly metaphoric universe. Los Angeles figures prominently here as surrogate muse; the...
The annual CalArts-sponsored RADAR L.A. festival of contemporary theater had serious offerings this year of works outside the cultural references of the English-language. Some presentations were more successful than others, based purely on the dynamics and politics of...
The traveling art bash “Station to Station” concluded its nationwide tour in Oakland last week and it just goes to show: There’s nothing like a road trip fueled by a cool million in corporate donations for having a good time.
The inside of Steven Hull’s brain could be likened to a flowering tree in constant bloom. His newest effort, “Balcony” is an exploration into the various ways that meaning is extrapolated from any artwork, or for that matter any “thing” in the living known world....
Every now and again an artist comes along for whom the process of making art is both revolutionary and reverential. Mark Dutcher’s first solo show in almost five years, entitled "Transfer" is a visually transformative experience punctuated throughout as testaments of...
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