Jim Shaw
Blum & Poe; Marciano Art Foundation
In his short video Tales from the Wig Museum (2017), on view at Blum & Poe gallery, Jim Shaw appropriates the style of the opening…
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Edgar Arceneaux
Susanne Vielmetter
There are a number of emotional responses to walking through a graveyard: firstly, satisfaction that one is walking at all and not an insensate resident;…
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Naida Osline
Riverside Art Museum
Culled from five different series of Naida Osline’s photographic work since 2007, “Florescence” examines an arc of her practice that is focused on taxonomies of…
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Paul McCarthy
Hauser & Wirth LA
Roughly four years ago, Paul McCarthy opened the sprawling installation “WS” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, platforming (and rupturing) the domestic fantasy…
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Constance Mallinson
Jason Vass
Generally, rubbish is quickly dispatched and secreted from public consciousness—or at least ignored. Constance Mallinson, however, revels in discards’ improbable pulchritude while questioning society’s prodigious…
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Peter Alexander & Jan Maarten Voskuil
Peter Blake Gallery
Peter Alexander’s true subject has always been light—both in his earlier, luminescent cast-resin sculptures, which he abandoned for several decades for health reasons, and in…
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Meg Cranston
Meliksetian Briggs
Monet’s haystacks, Baldessari’s discs, Warhol’s everything—there are a number of artists who have worked in series specifically plotted as “the same picture in different colors”…
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Ben Jackel
L.A. Louver
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection of Arms and Armor is one of the most encyclopedic in the world. Not only does it house…
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Christian Maychack
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
In Kafka’s “The Cares of a Family Man,” we meet a small, strange creature lurking on the narrator’s stairway and in his foyer. No animal,…
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Nirveda Alleck and Eric Van Hove
Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
Curated by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, and inspired by Anthony Kwame Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), the loosely Africa-centric, two-artist exhibition at…
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2017 California-Pacific Triennial
Orange County Museum of Art / Newport Beach, CA
“Building As Ever,” the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, investigates the economic, political and social forces that affect the built…
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
California African American Museum / Los Angeles
The figures are in motion, contorted, double-jointedly bending over themselves—so confused with playing multiple roles that a single, consistent identity becomes, at best, elusive and…
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Star Montana
The Main Museum / Los Angeles
In exquisite large-scale photographs, figures of hope, variously tinged with the pain of day-to-day reality, exude optimism, gazing upward and confidently looking straight at the…
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Women of Abstract Expressionism
Palm Springs Museum of Art
Abstract Expressionist painting remains one of the most pivotal and enigmatic art movements of the 20th century. Its continued influence on current abstract painting can…
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Chris Antemann
Crocker Art Museum / Sacramento, CA
The term forbidden fruit nowadays refers to mere guilty pleasures, but it once designated the fatal, tragic fruit of knowledge—knowledge of sex, or course, being…
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Richard Deacon
San Diego Museum of Art
Forty-three works in an expansive range of media highlight Richard Deacon’s versatility in a broad yet uneven survey of the British sculptor’s art from 1979–2016…
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