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M. Charlene Stevens
Julia Weist at Moskowitz Bayse

Julia Weist
at Moskowitz Bayse

Julia Weist’s “Private Eye” is like a neo-noir where the investigator investigates themselves and invites us along. The work traffics in suburban paranoia: messages on vanity plates and yard signs asking us to believe. Today, the taboo of surveillance has faded, and...

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Matthew Brannon at David Kordansky Gallery

Matthew Brannon
at David Kordansky Gallery

Through images of Satan and Darth Vader, and references to the politics of the 1970s, Matthew Brannon will unexpectedly break your heart. His show at David Kordansky Gallery mirrors the sensation of biting the pit at the center of a peach: a bitter core beyond what...

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Haena Yoo at Murmurs Gallery

Haena Yoo
at Murmurs Gallery

Brushing my hair as a girl, I remember my hand growing heavier with each stroke as I entertained the wicked urge to unearth every girlish tendril in one fell swoop. The manic, menacing quality of Yoo's strange architecture reminds me of these early manifestations of...

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Gabriel Madan
at Gattopardo

The slapdash brushwork of Gabriel Madan’s work suggests a personal but ultimately fleeting investment in his subjects. The style and content are both Pop but not too Pop - an oddball mix of semi-famous celebrities and obscure kitsch. By loosely hand-painting...

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Austin Lee at Jeffrey Deitch

Austin Lee
at Jeffrey Deitch

Some shows suck, and some shows barely avoid sucking. Austin Lee seems capable of great things while failing by a long mile. The paintings depict brightly hued, crying, Gumby-like cartoon figures. They are clearly intended to be emotive but fail to elicit emotion; the...

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Betye Saar a Roberts Projects

Betye Saar
a Roberts Projects

Mojotech is Betye Saar's abbreviation for the "magic of technology" and the title of her large-scale installation from 1987 on view at Roberts Projects. Standing at the horizon of Saar's trailing altarpiece, I'm reminded of the language of trees and how they...

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Brett Ginsburg at Matthew Brown

Brett Ginsburg
at Matthew Brown

This show feels like something that I would have walked in and out of quickly about twenty years ago. The paintings—hazy process-based geometric abstractions—artfully avoid the conventions of painting without actually saying anything. The pink prints look like...

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Piper Bangs at Megan Mulrooney Gallery

Piper Bangs
at Megan Mulrooney Gallery

Juicy larvae play amongst feral grasses. Slugs laze on velvety pillows of tufted lichen. Cornucopias of ripened fruits germinate in tendrilled verdant habitats. I can’t help but delight in Piper Bangs’ paintings, resonating with my love of dirt and belief in the magic...

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ABOLITION IN ACTION Crenshaw Dairy Mart Cares About People

ABOLITION IN ACTION
Crenshaw Dairy Mart Cares About People

The artist-of-color-led arts organization and collective in Inglewood, Crenshaw Dairy Mart (CDM), is continuing a legacy of Black-led art spaces in South Los Angeles. Co-founded by multi-hyphenate artists Patrisse Cullors, alexandre ali reza dorriz and noé olivas, it...

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HEAVY WATER Rethinking the LA River for Future Generations

HEAVY WATER
Rethinking the LA River for Future Generations

The Los Angeles River is a permanent topic of fascination for artists in this city. In order to establish the city, bureaucrats and businessmen fought to colonize this humble waterway. They tore it away from Indigenous people, encased it in concrete, then rerouted it...

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NATURE’S WAY Lucia Monge Collaborates with Her Environment

NATURE’S WAY
Lucia Monge Collaborates with Her Environment

As a kid, Lucia Monge often gazed at birds through her grandfather’s binoculars, taking in the wonders of nature at an early age. Sometimes the birds looked so extraordinary and colorful that she pondered: Could they be real? Or were they something from a fairy tale?...

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THE STARS ARE ALIGNED Lita Albuquerque on Observational Astronomy

THE STARS ARE ALIGNED
Lita Albuquerque on Observational Astronomy

A matriarch of the Land Art movement that is closely associated with the American Southwest, Lita Albuquerque has engaged with the surface of Earth from the South Pole to Saudi Arabia, Peru to Paris. But she has always given special attention to the music of the...

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SENSE OF WONDER Innovation in the Islamic World

SENSE OF WONDER
Innovation in the Islamic World

Centuries before Leonardo da Vinci lived and worked in Italy, a Persian astronomer, physician, geographer and writer was conducting research into the nature of the cosmos and man’s place in it. Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) wrote and illustrated The Wonders of...

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DEATH OF A STAR Directed by Jasmine Johnson New Theater Hollywood

DEATH OF A STAR
Directed by Jasmine Johnson New Theater Hollywood

The tedium of a particular self-consciousness ascribed to Generation Z was on full display in The Death of a Star, a performance and self-proclaimed “reality show,” directed by Jasmine Johnson, which had a sold-out four-day run at New Theater Hollywood (NTH) this...

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SHOPTALK: LA ART NEWS Olympics Paris 2024: Art, Fashion & Camp

SHOPTALK: LA ART NEWS
Olympics Paris 2024: Art, Fashion & Camp

Here’s something different: I am going to talk about the Olympics that were opening in Paris as I wrote this column. Especially exciting were the athletes floating down the Seine in a series of boats—so improbable, but so original, and so picturesque against the...

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PEER REVIEW Kelly Wall on Ellen Schafer

PEER REVIEW
Kelly Wall on Ellen Schafer

Known for her life-sized stained-glass sculptures of intertwined lawn chairs, Kelly Wall uses sculpture and time to explore perspective in different ways, turning familiar objects into something uncanny and almost disorienting. In her recent outdoor show at Various...

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THE DIGITAL Form and Function May Still Have a Chance

THE DIGITAL
Form and Function May Still Have a Chance

There are few places on this earth where I have stood and felt humbled, in awe of the grandeur of human achievement, where art and architecture intentionally merge with consideration of form and function—and where sexy-ass aesthetics rule the day. These sites are what...

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BUNKER VISION The Outsider Cosmonaut

BUNKER VISION
The Outsider Cosmonaut

One of the places where art and science can interact as a powerful force is in outsider art. This is especially true when the outsider’s goal is motivated by a belief that what they are doing is scientific. Self-educated artists are often likely to follow their own...

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