Articles
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER
ARTIST TAKEOVER: DEIRDRE O’DWYER & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG
COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive) Jessica Fredericks & Andrew Freiser
Tell us about yourself: We see ourselves as both gallerists and collectors. Since opening Fredericks & Freiser in 1996, we’ve spent nearly thirty years championing and collecting idiosyncratic, psychologically charged work. Our personal collection has been built slowly and with real intention, reflecting a long-term commitment to building depth within a core group of artists. Q&A: Q:...
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Carolina Fontoura Alzaga
Tell us about yourself I explore reclaiming personal and collective agency in a world that erodes it, often through sculpture and light. Lately, I’vebeen returning to painting and collage and trying ceramics to loosenconstraints and follow what emerges—from reclaimeddesire to intuitions still forming. Top 3 songs? “Azotea”—Luisa Almaguer, “Funnel of Love”—Wanda Jackson, "New...
ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD
Reviews
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER at Regen Projects
R. CRUMB at David Zwirner
R. Crumb’s “tales” (even filtered through psychedelics and cannabinoids) weren’t always so paranoid—though they were frequently calamitous. The street-hip graphic domain Crumb freely improvised during the 1960s and 1970s across densely cross-hatched black-andwhite...
MOSIE ROMNEY at Sebastian Gladstone
I felt dizzy at mosie romney’s show “every Spiral has its law” at Sebastian Gladstone. I could chalk it up to external factors (fatigue, harsh gallery lighting), but I suspect that the work itself was the incubator of disorientation. My previous visits to the space,...
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & PHILIP GUSTON at Skirball Cultural Center
Entrusted to the sprawling Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood by New York’s Jewish Museum, “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” presents a handful of Philip Guston’s depictions of cowled Ku Klux Klan figures, alongside Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ambitious, mixed media...
MONUMENTS at MOCA Geffen & The Brick
150 years after the Civil War, it seems American art institutions are finally ready to discuss Confederate statuary. Seizing this opportunity, curator Hamza Walker (along with co-curators Bennett Simpson and Kara Walker) has gone to unusual lengths in his sprawling...