…Through a critical examination of natural materials and topographies encountered on research trips to Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and across Iceland and the Arctic, Wang reduces her visual language to…
GALLERY ROUNDS: Alice Wang
OUTSIDE LA: Margot Samel New York “Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you”
…just sleep. “Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you” runs through July 26, 2024 Margot Samel 295 Church Street New York, NY 10013 info@margotsamel.com…
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GALLERY ROUNDS: Bruce Richards Sea View
For naïve or semi-initiated Los Angeles art-goers such as myself, a visit to “Soundings,” Sea View’s summer exhibition, might elicit two questions. Who is Bruce Richards? And why does the…
PICK OF THE WEEK: “Bruts” David Kordansky Gallery
…ancient being and Bill Traylor’s acutely simple and lyrical drawings to Isa Genken’s trouble-free assemblage mannequins, the works span vastly different periods and mediums. My favorite thing about artist-curated exhibitions…
Opera as Double Fugue: The Comet / Poppea "Double Consciousness" and historical counterpoint
…in the wake of a comet’s freakish brush with some part of New York. From a vault that might have become a tomb, he has found his way to the…
REMARKS ON COLOR: Clinton’s Rhinophyma Red July's Hue
…of great (or at least red) things to come! And man has that nose stood witness to some of the greatest moments in history, and some less illustrious too—from Rhodes…
World in Ashes Constantin Werner Solo Exhibition Wonzimer Gallery 341-B S Avenue 17 Los Angeles 90031 / wonzimerinfo@gmail.com Opening: 7pm- 10pm/Saturday, July 20th, 2024 Dates of Show: July 20th –July 27th 2024 – 1
From the Editor July/Aug Volume 18, issue 6
…websites, watching films, and reading about foreign places. Our Summer Travels issue offers just that. New York contributor Sarah Sargent focuses on the positive in this year’s Whitney Biennial, an…
NO REALER THAN OTHER THINGS Focusing on the Positive at This Year's Whitney Biennial
…from Los Angeles because their roots didn’t have enough room to thrive. To examine “privilege and solidarity,” Aparicio has packed his amber with documents generated by white allies working in…
(BITTER) SWEET VIRGINIA Navigating Monuments in the Cradle of the Confederacy
In March, an invitation to view ceramic work by New York–based artist Patrice Renee Washington brought me to Richmond, Virginia, for the very first time. A midsize Southern city often…
LESSONS TO BE UNLEARNED The 60th Venice Biennale is Less Art World and More Real World
…on Archie Moore, the first Indigenous artist presenting for Australia. His work, Kith and Kin (2024), is a monumental research-based installation—a genealogical mapping of 10,000 years of the artist’s ancestry….
CALIFORNIA GOLD Hilbert Museum Expands its Space and Collection
…portraying sunbathers, birds and sailboats, beckons visitors to the newly expanded 22,000-square-foot museum. While the Hilbert Museum has many art pieces on display and in its collection, museum co-founder Mark…
BUNKER VISION Roger Corman 1926–2024
When Roger Corman recently shuffled off this mortal coil, the reactions on social media were emotional and varied. As the obituaries appeared, it seemed that everybody had a unique story…
ART BRIEF The Role of an Art Advisor, Part 2
…may pay me an introductory commission, a fee based upon the sales. I’m very transparent with my collectors that I’m not going to take that introductory commission if I’m charging…
THE DIGITAL Frank Stella: A Story of Reinvention
…of the newer works of Frank Stella. For an artist that has efficaciously existed for over 60 years in the art world—newer is slightly relative. These were not minimalist paintings…