Giorgio de Finis is currently the artistic director of MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome) where he has organized the sprawling MACRO Asilo project. He has opened up this institution to a citywide influx of creative energies, involving hundreds of artists,...
Randy Polumbo graces the cover of our July/August 2019 issue. Polumbo's art is featured in our hotel art story by contributor Genie Davis on page 42 in our print edition and on our website.
Irene Tsatsos is the director of exhibition programs and chief curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. Sandra de la Loza’s current beautiful photographic exhibition “Mi Casa Es Su Casa” seems highly prescient. How did it come about, and how do you feel...
Coachella 2019 has come and gone, leaving literal dust in its wake. This was the 20th year of Coachella festival, and it shared a particularly strong art program with its visitors. Large art installations are an integral element of the festival, providing shade, joy,...
In Part One of this article, gallerist Charlie James, collector Tom Peters, arts advisor Michelle Isenberg, art writer Shana Nys Dambrot, insurer William Fleischer and book designer Roy Brooks discuss art books and all their glory. Click Here. Yah, sure. Everybody...
Yah, sure. Everybody loves an art book. But why? When a fine art book is published, the action generates a series of exponential benefits that ripple across the art world. Here, we present ten art world leaders, specialists in their roles, to detail the intricacies of...
The Joshua Treenial returns this weekend, April 12-14, with a new slate of artists who look at the desert -- its people, its environment, and its off-the-grid spirit in “Paradise::Parallax.” One never knows what to expect at this home-grown desert art expo – anything...
America Martin, the young Colombian-American artist known for her bold use of color and line in primitive, abstracted images of humans, is gaining recognition with growing momentum. With commanding forms that call to mind Picasso’s portraits and Basquiat’s energetic...
When we withdraw from other people out of choice, we call the result privacy. When someone forces us into seclusion, it’s kidnapping. The artist Carolina Maki Kitagawa’s new show at Eastside International Los Angeles, “Story’s End No. 1 // Continúa El Cuento Nº....
The Armory Show is 25 years old and bears little resemblance to the original Gramercy International Art Fair founded by New York Gallerists Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris. Held in the Gramercy Park Hotel the show was intimate, funky and fun....
“Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings,” is a deeply satisfying survey exhibition of the photographer’s work which has traveled from the National Gallery of Art in Washington to the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) and is currently at LA’s Getty Museum. While attending the...
Diane Williams graces the cover of our March/April 2019 issue. Williams is interviewed by contributor Betty Ann Brown on page 40 in our print edition and on our website.
Desert X is back. Its inaugural year in 2017 saw 200,000 visitors from around the world flocking to see exciting, site-specific temporary art installations in the California desert. It was a beautiful thing – no walls, no cost, no barriers keeping anyone from...
Art Basel Miami is the art-world’s Super Bowl. With art, travel, parties and the beach, it was the perfect way to end 2018. At the end of a tiring but invigorating day of viewing art, you might have found yourself walking barefoot along a white-sand beach with a new...
Stacen Berg, senior director at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, joined the gallery in 2011. Founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, the gallery now boasts branches in multiple cities, including London, Hong Kong and New York. When...
Christopher Russell graces the cover of our January/February 2019 issue. Russell is one of the top shows of 2018, selected by Staff Writer Ezrha Jean Black on page 30 in our print edition and on our website.
Van Gogh’s Mulberry Tree (1889) was a key work in my conversion to appreciating the pleasures of modern art. When I first saw it as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley in the 1970s, it was still in the collection of the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San...
Yunhee Min is our cover artist in our November/December 2018 issue on Painting. Min is interviewed by Christopher Michno on page 26 in our print edition and on our website.
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