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Tulsa Kinney
DON BACHARDY at The Huntington

DON BACHARDY
at The Huntington

The wall text for “Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits”—an exhibition at The Huntington featuring over 100 drawings and paintings—asserts that Bachardy persisted in creating portraits during a time when art was more experimental and less representational. I felt that...

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JORDAN ROUNTREE at Baert Gallery

JORDAN ROUNTREE
at Baert Gallery

When we are small, adulthood comes to us in impressions: a staticky scene from a horror film, an overheard whisper. As adults, we see childhood memories through a similar film. “I Hear a New World” seamlessly weaves together these visions of curiosity and nostalgia....

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The Street Photographer and the Taliban

The Street Photographer and the Taliban

The term “street photographer” comes with a certain set of associations: Street photographers work in public, snapping candid photos of commuters or loiterers at telling moments. They take photographs of strangers in the crowd from the perspective of a stranger...

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For My Jaded Angels

For My Jaded Angels

The first draft of this article was entirely different. It was a polemic. A scorched-earth condemnation of art. Ten thousand words. The next wave in a storied line of seismic criticism. As such, I titled it Towards a Number Laocoön (“number” as in more numb, not...

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The Tote Bagger’s Guide to the Los Angeles Art Book Fair

The Tote Bagger’s Guide to the Los Angeles Art Book Fair

Our reporter on the ground works her way through this year’s labyrinthine fair with the help of its most visible symbol: The tote bag. The Printed Matter Art Book Fair goes high and low, and tote bags are its connective tissue. The fair provides a platform for...

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DUELLING REVIEW: Viola Frey at The Pit

DUELLING REVIEW: Viola Frey
at The Pit

When The Pit announced a show by the late ceramicist Viola Frey, it piqued my editorial interest. I myself first became aware of Frey when I began taking ceramics courses with other sculptors, who would often speak of her as a totemic influence on their practice and...

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ARTIST TAKEOVER Ramekon O'Arwisters

ARTIST TAKEOVER
Ramekon O'Arwisters

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ESIRI ERHERIENE-ESSI at Night Gallery

ESIRI ERHERIENE-ESSI
at Night Gallery

There is a moment in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass when the Unicorn says to Alice: "Well, now that we have seen each other…if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.” The private question of whether one sees themselves reflected in the art that is...

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THE MOMMY LEAKS THE FLOOR at New Theater Hollywood

THE MOMMY LEAKS THE FLOOR
at New Theater Hollywood

One of the performers—if “performer” is the right word—in The Mommy Leaks the Floor, a new work by Asher Hartman staged at New Theater Hollywood (May 16–25), is Pablo, a real-life infant, born earlier this year. Throughout the play, cradled in his mother’s arms on the...

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JASON FOX at David Kordansky Gallery

JASON FOX
at David Kordansky Gallery

The flattening of high and lowbrow imagery is certainly not new, indeed the painter Jason Fox has been mining this territory since the early 1990s. In his current show at David Kordansky Gallery, “Why Are You Sitting in the Dark?,” Fox refines his enigmatic...

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CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN at Lisson Gallery

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
at Lisson Gallery

This, remarkably enough, is Carolee Schneemann’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, six years after her passing. Schneemann may be late, but her show isn’t. It may indeed be a case of too little; the sparse hanging (8 wallworks and an installation) barely hints at...

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THE JERRY MAHONEY SUCCESS SEMINAR Sophie Becker and Henry Gunderson

THE JERRY MAHONEY SUCCESS SEMINAR
Sophie Becker and Henry Gunderson

The central question of all ventriloquism is: Who is in charge? We know the puppet is not alive, but a good ventriloquist can move the puppet’s body so naturally and throw their voice so convincingly as to make the audience doubt their first instinct. However, the...

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CHRISTINE SUN KIM at François Ghebaly

CHRISTINE SUN KIM
at François Ghebaly

Christine Sun Kim’s work leaves little room for misinterpretation. Clarity, for Kim, is a reality of survival. “American Sigh Language,” the artist’s recent solo exhibition at François Ghebaly, makes it clear: for Kim and other Deaf individuals, intelligibility serves...

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GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE at The Getty Museum

GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE
at The Getty Museum

Impressionism, with its kitsch trinkets and gift shop ephemera, lives in a realm of surfaces. I’m not alone in thinking this—most of us know Monet through wall calendars, not the Musée. The prevalence of these reproductions make the originals, when seen, difficult to...

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VICTOR ESTRADA at As Is

VICTOR ESTRADA
at As Is

Victor Estrada’s new exhibition appears as an inadvertent, if timely, response to current social upheavals and the militarized chaos that has seized the region. The action-adventure video game, Assassin’s Creed, is an oblique, unlikely inspiration for the show’s...

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MAGNUS PETERSON HORNER at Gaylord Fine Arts

MAGNUS PETERSON HORNER
at Gaylord Fine Arts

On the top floor of The Gaylord Apartments, a spare selection of seven new paintings by Magnus Peterson Horner tingles the optic and haptic senses, even when they’re barely paintings, even when they’re barely there at all. Horner paints people as if sensed through...

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IN SEARCH OF A CITY — (print exclusive)

IN SEARCH OF A CITY — (print exclusive)

Last year, I went through a phase of reading early aviation memoirs. The book that started me on this kick was Beryl Markham’s West with the Night, in which the British-Kenyan aviatrix writes about flying over the Sahara in the early 1900s, delivering supplies between...

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WHERE ARTISTS HANG OUT

WHERE ARTISTS HANG OUT

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