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Miami Art Week Report: Day 2 Elevate Española highlights the importance of public art, and the fairs begin

Miami Art Week Report: Day 2
Elevate Española highlights the importance of public art, and the fairs begin

After a weekend filled with art and philanthropy in Palm Beach, we’re officially ready for the parties, fairs, and people-watching of Miami Art Week. Yesterday, Untitled Art and the New Art Dealers Alliance fairs opened to VIPs, and the heavy-hitting Art Basel Miami...

Miami Art Week Report: Day 1 New Wave Art Wknd Takes Over Palm Beach

Miami Art Week Report: Day 1
New Wave Art Wknd Takes Over Palm Beach

Miami Art Week is back, which means the crowds are on the way to enjoy the beach, the sun, the stunning hotels, and the most coveted art the market has to offer. For those of us visiting from New York, the warm weather couldn’t have come at a better time. Throughout...

REMARKS ON COLOR: Mamie’s Baby Blues December's Hue

REMARKS ON COLOR: Mamie’s Baby Blues
December's Hue

They say, “The eyes have it,” and what the “it” is exactly in this sentiment is debatable, yet no one can argue that Mamie Eisenhower’s baby blues rivaled the Atlantic and set more than a few hearts ablaze. The blue of her eyes was practically iconic and the tell-tale...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Phranc Craig Krull Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Phranc
Craig Krull Gallery

“Phranc: The Butch Closet” at the Craig Krull Gallery is a joyous celebration of a Los Angeles icon. The ambitious exhibit, which includes work and documentation from the past forty years, illuminates how Phranc and her music—she identifies herself as the...

OUTSIDE LA: Atlanta Art Week

OUTSIDE LA: Atlanta Art Week

When Donovan Johnson and his new partnership cohort stepped in to renovate and relaunch the once-venerable Bill Lowe Gallery—transforming it into the buzzy and ambitious Johnson Lowe Gallery of today—it signaled more than a changing of the guard at one of Atlanta’s...

Mary Woronov: A Survey West Hollywood

Mary Woronov: A Survey
West Hollywood

Mary Woronov, Chelsea Girl, writer, actress and painter, is currently displaying her luscious punk-rock paintings in a Pop-up exhibition at an old Land Rover/Jaguar dealership in West Hollywood. This is a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary survey of her unique...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Isabel Nuño de Buen Chris Sharp Gallery

PICK OF THE WEEK: Isabel Nuño de Buen
Chris Sharp Gallery

Persuaded by her alchemist rhapsody and teetery yet unshakeable assertion, Isabel Nuño de Buen’s exhibition, “Now and Away” at Chris Sharp Gallery instills in me a yearning for more. Her intricately crafted wall sculptures, characterized by their personable scale and...

GALLERY ROUNDS: “DEL CIELO” ROSEGALLERY

GALLERY ROUNDS: “DEL CIELO”
ROSEGALLERY

Birds in the trees: all is right in the world unless it’s three in the morning and their birdsong is interrupting your sleep. Birds on a telephone wire: a testament to adaptation in one’s habitat; I hope it doesn’t ruin your connectivity. Birds on the beach: better...

FILM: Welcome Space Brothers Los Angeles Theatre

FILM: Welcome Space Brothers
Los Angeles Theatre

It’s weird how the treasure trove of Outsider Video Art that was Public Access Television has only started to seep into mainstream consciousness as it has disappeared—the amateur programming itself, as well as its very context and infrastructure, rendered infinitely...

PUBLISHER’S EYE: Gillian Wearing Regen Projects

PUBLISHER’S EYE: Gillian Wearing
Regen Projects

Including photography, painting and video, Gillian Wearing’s show, titled “reflections,” rethinks portraiture and perception, as the artist is well known to do, with many of the works directly referencing artists from the past and their compositions. In a striking...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Simphiwe Ndzube BLUM

PICK OF THE WEEK: Simphiwe Ndzube
BLUM

“Have I ever felt strange suddenly being myself?” I thought after leaving Simphiwe Ndzube’s exhibition, “Chorus” at BLUM. If I integrate all the parts of myself into the world I believe in and want to see the most, maybe I too will find ordinary enchantment. Perhaps I...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Terri Friedman Shoshana Wayne Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Terri Friedman
Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Terri Friedman’s wonderful woven tapestries are on display in “tomorrow is just a thought,” the artist’s solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Friedman has been creating her "yarn paintings"—applying formal principals of color, shape, and texture to her...

Poncili Creación: No limits, no bounds—only possibilities Hauser & Wirth

Poncili Creación: No limits, no bounds—only possibilities
Hauser & Wirth

Poncili Creación is in LA, preparing to take us by storm with the glory of trash at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. In advance of their November 11 performance, Our Name is Moving, I took part in their creative workshop POSSIBILITIES OF MATTER and sat with them for an...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Julian Charrière Sean Kelly, Los Angeles

GALLERY ROUNDS: Julian Charrière
Sean Kelly, Los Angeles

Julian Charrière is a Berlin-based artist whose work often focuses on nature, ecology and the changing climate. For his first Los Angeles exhibit at Sean Kelly, “Buried Sunshine”, Charrière was drawn to the subject of oil and researched the history and photographed...

From the Editor November/December 2023; Volume 18, issue 2

From the Editor
November/December 2023; Volume 18, issue 2

Dear Reader, This issue is a fave of mine. I’ve always loved crafts, especially as a youngster. I taught myself how to sew and embroider, and I made a hooked-rug wall-hanging in my high school art class. I was by far the youngest member of a quilting bee. I even...

WOVEN VISIONS Diedrick Brackens Explores Identity with Innovative Technique and Unusual Tenderness

WOVEN VISIONS
Diedrick Brackens Explores Identity with Innovative Technique and Unusual Tenderness

Even with the growing inclusion of textile art in textbooks, surveys and biennials, one doesn’t normally think of weaving as a cutting-edge contemporary art medium. Diedrick Brackens is out to change that. A breakout star of the 2018 Hammer “Made in L.A.” biennial,...

EDGES AND PLURALITIES Melissa Joseph Brings Craft Into the Future

EDGES AND PLURALITIES
Melissa Joseph Brings Craft Into the Future

For Melissa Joseph, all things relate to edges. Her practice exists on several of them: painting, felting, craft, utility, art … the list continues. She works in a unique dry-felting medium to create imagery based on her own photography and that of her family. While...

NEEDLEWORK IN THE SERVICE OF SUBVERSION "Iron Halo" by Sal Salandra

NEEDLEWORK IN THE SERVICE OF SUBVERSION
"Iron Halo" by Sal Salandra

For the past few weeks, Iron Halo, a catalog of Sal Salandra’s art, has occupied my coffee table, stopping everyone who sees it in their tracks. The cover is a detail from a work called Human Ashtray: an ultramarine background surrounds a bearded man wearing a dog...

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