Nicole Eisenman's two New York shows are featured and reviewed by contributor Stephen Maine.
Upending Absurdity
When the Long Beach City College Art Gallery invited Cheri Gaulke to show “Peep Totter Fly” alongside Michael Arata’s “Texas Style Beauty Contest—Miss M,” she initially recoiled. “I wasn’t quite sure where he was coming from,” she remarked in regard to Arata’s...
Julian Schnabel returns to Pace Gallery
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel is returning to Arne Glimcher’s Pace after 13 years with the Gagosian Gallery. Pace had repped Schnabel from 1984 to 2003.Schnabel said “I wanted to have a more human relationship with the person . . . representing my work.”...
Frieze Fair Highlights 2016
With a high of only 50 degrees and a slow misting rain, this year’s Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island could have been renamed Freeze, but that didn’t seem to stop the throngs of attendees on preview day. For this melting pot of a fair, half the galleries in...
A Hot Hollywood at LACE’s Benefit Art Auction
“Ditch the jacket. It’s always hot in there.”I disregard the warning. Hollywood is hushed, cool, with the usual spattering of sleaze and stale piss.A doorman swings open the glass doors to the baking hot Benefit Art Auction at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions....
KEN GONZALES-DAY
1 Unknown, Bust of Kakaley, Isabelle, Salomon Islands (MNHN-HA-872), National Museum of Natural History, Paris 2 Emile-André Leroy, Young Haitian, Museum of the 30s, Boulogne-Billancourt. 3 Unknown, Bust of a Young Man, Arigi Dunka, Born on the White Nile...
Chris Killip
From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working-class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy industry. His subjects include the declining coal mining and shipbuilding cities of Tyneside,...
Sant Khalsa
Sant Khalsa isn’t reticent about her artistic influences. In artist statements, she points to the photographs of Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, and the Bechers as impactful on her own practice of photographing landscapes of the Southwest, particularly those of Southern...
Aaron Fowler
Every surface, each object of Aaron Fowler’s thirteen assemblage paintings in “Blessings On Blessings,” has been contemplated, touched and worked to build layers of meaning and matter that cohere and disrupt. Dimensionality—of ideas, materials, possible readings—is...
Christopher Richmond
Christopher Richmond’s “Double Fantasy,” a pairing of his videos Panthalassa (2015) and Rendezvous (2016) in his solo debut at Moskowitz Bayse, like much video work, challenges the audience, understandably not wanting to be easy or mere “entertainment.” Brimming with...
Linda Arreola
Linda Arreola’s debut as an artist was as a sculptor and installation artist. She’s also an architect; and her show, “Architect of the Abstract,” a survey of work curated by William Moreno from 2005 to 2016, is very much the work of an architect who has crossed over...
Aimée García
Like many Cuban artists, Aimée García has learned how to avoid censorship while still communicating her message and ideas. In García’s current body of work titled “Suprematist Speech,” she combines self portraiture with appropriated fragments from the government...
Richie Moment included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
The panel of guest selectors comprising Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza has chosen 46 artists for the annual open submission exhibition, New Contemporaries. has announce This year's selected artists for the 2016 exhibition will open the show as part of the...
Ace Gallery Taken Over by Bankruptcy Court
Los Angeles–based Ace Gallery was taken over by a bankruptcy trustee after founder Douglas Chrismas defaulted on a $17.5 million court-ordered payment in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Ace consists of two gallery spaces located in LA and Beverly Hills and an estimated...
LACMA /// Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015
This video follows Clarissa Esguerra, Assistant Curator, and Melinda Kerstein, Mount Maker in the Department of Costume & Textiles, while they get a mannequin dressed and ready for the exhibition "Reigning Men". The ensemble shown here features a a silk...
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Announces 2016 Artist Project Grants
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
Destroy All Punk
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corré, has issued a press release stating his plans to burn his £5 million punk memorabilia collection in Camden on 26 November, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of punk. The designer said; “When the Queen gives a...
SCOTT HOVE : CAKE LAND
Scott Hove's installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even...