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Fruity Exotic DTLA Mural
Katherine Bernhardt’s quirky public mural is currently covering the exterior walls of Venus Over Los Angeles gallery in the Arts District of Downtown LA just in time for the mid-summer heat wave.Giant free-floating cigarettes, slices of watermelon, cantaloupe, papaya,...
Former MIT lecturer who robbed a bank in the name of art pleads guilty to burglary
Washington Post In the rarefied world inhabited by performance artists, gallery owners and MFA candidates, there is something called “non-collectible art.” Making this art doesn’t produce something that someone can buy and take home, like Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona...
Dismantling Art School
The Artist as Debtor The role of educational institutions in shaping and defining artists is being questioned and critiqued by the very professors, students and alumni who make up these institutions. One of these critiques, the nationwide movement to organize and...
Genocide Centennial
Today is the last day to witness iwitness—a large scale public art installation made up of asymmetrical cubic photographs on display in downtown LA's Grand Park by artists Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian. It immediately recalls graffiti artist JR’s black-and-white...
A Few Good Reasons to Drop Out of Art School
The New Yorker Nestled among the exhibition reviews and auction reports in contemporary-art journalism last week were scattered items about the Roski School of Art and Design, at the University of Southern California. On Friday, the first-year students in the school’s...
Best in Show: Frieze Fair
For this year’s Frieze Art Fair at Randall’s Island in New York City, I tried to avoid the usual fair fatigue one can experience at a show of this magnitude and went on a scavenger hunt for the best painting I could find. Location was sometimes important, as...
Nostalgia at Paris Photo LA
“Nostalgia,” the successful, albeit subconscious underlying theme of this year’s Paris Photo LA art fair has, by now, turned upon itself. The memory of the event may be faded, but there are a few talents and galleries that proved they will have a bright future. Paris...
ON OUR COVER
A Guide to Paris Photo LA, 2015
An interview with Paris Photo LA’s new director, Florence Bourgeois, and the new artistic director, Christoph Wiesner, was the first thing on my agenda for the fair this year. I wanted to get from Bourgeois and Wiesner a sense of what changes or innovations they hope...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Dumps Gagosian Gallery
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is leaving Gagosian Gallery, which has represented Rauschenberg since the artist's death in 2008. The foundation has dropped the gallery in favor of Pace (New York, London, Hong Kong, and Beijing), which represented Rauschenberg near...
Officials probe worker’s death at Gagosian’s $70 million NYC mansion
Page Six An employee of Koenig Iron Works died following a fall at Larry Gagosian’s UES mansion while completing a gut renovation. . . . READ MORE
Brenna Youngblood
Revealing a neglected and deliciously beautiful world from which we get only a handful of 72” x 60” snapshots—monochromatic yet stippled with smears, cracks and drips—Brenna Youngblood’s eight massive canvases, all mixed media, narrate a fall from grace. Titles...
Sundance: Part 3
Time was running out for me and I had to experience some of the goggle hype at the New Frontier installation space. It’s a kind of expanded cinema meets art, meets doc, meets VR, meets Connect sort of space. A person could really spend three full days experiencing the...
Sundance: Part 2
I’m unclear what happened next but I do know after not getting into some parties (BET) and getting into others we ended up at the Celebration of Music in Film, highlighting the festival’s opening night film What Happened, Miss Simone? Performing at the event was...
Sundance: From the Inside Looking In
We all know about the parasitic commerciality at Sundance. The festival desperately clinging to their long forgotten outsider status: the overpriced condos, the jello shot luge, the metal business cards and models that have lost their shoes. We’ve all heard the story...
The Permeability of the (Art) World
Art Basel is a world unto itself; as the 13th year of the art fair rolled through Miami in early December to strong sales, completing a re-bound from the 2008 market drop, its massive influx of cash, glamour, international speculators and celebrity have triumphantly...
Miami Abuzz
The hoopla at Art Basel Miami is winding down. Whew. What a week of VIP this, VIP that, gale force rain and untold millions of dollars of museum quality art being sold from inside tents. If you tire of the big mama fair, there are others to discover, depending on your...
