The path through this darkened labyrinth is reminiscent of the Haunted House; the viewer is made to follow a path through concocted fear toward anticipated relief. Chiron, Adelita Husni-Bey’s immersive environment, however, refuses to allow the visitor to leave so...
Having been a curator of photography in a museum myself, I know that when a new department head is appointed at an institution with a long-standing collection, he or she has to make a statement with an exhibition exploring that collection in a way no one has before....
In thinking about the exhibition El Sueño Americano | The American Dream and Tom Kiefer's presentation of photographs of objects border patrol agents seized from migrants at the U.S. Mexico border in Arizona, it is difficult not to wonder about the formal presentation...
Farrah Karapetian's current show, "The Photograph is Always Now," is a touching rumination on the loss of her father, who died of cancer last year. Furthering her ongoing exploration of photography's potential for semi-fictionally recasting bygones into the present,...
Several weeks of cold rain and angry trade winds broke. At last, the balmy warm weather had been restored to the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The glorious outdoors beckoned, but many chose to fill the Doris Duke Theater of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Art star Mark...
A few weekends ago, Frieze LA (Feb. 14–16) led the LA Art Marathon, and I put on my walking shoes to get to three of them. Frieze itself was again in the white tent set up at Paramount Studios, this time with 75 galleries, plus 16 Projects in the Backlot. Even...
This post-Frieze weekend we were tired. It was raining, which all locals will know is a very valid reason to cancel all plans and have a date with your couch. Despite this rare but welcome excuse, the attendance at Ochi Projects’ group exhibition "Doesn’t Whine By...
Female Sensibility shows a lot of sense. Featuring works by LA-based artist Kirsten Stoltmann and NY-based Jennifer Sullivan, the exhibition highlights the difficulties of existing within gendered expectations and constraints, especially as a ‘woman artist.’ Though...
Entering Nonaka-Hill feels like stepping outdoors into a Japanese rock garden. Plant matter and sculptures populate a white-pebble substrate. Evoking sky or water, deep blue walls contribute to a sensation of tranquility. The parking lot outside seems a world away....
This was the weekend. Art fair weekend. We took in five art fairs this Presidents Day weekend, each with its own flavor. At Frieze Los Angeles on Friday, we took in an astonishing collection of works in the gallery tent. From Alison Saar to James Turrell and Anish...
Over the 25 years of the LA Art Show, Executive Director Kim Martindale has seen fairs come and go in Los Angeles, lost in the quicksand of art market trends. The past two years, however, have seen several new fairs establish themselves in LA – from small satellite...
Perceive Me, a group show curated and conceived by Kristine Schomaker is both a brave and beautiful exhibition. An artist herself, Schomaker served as a model for these works as well, with the result potent and moving. Her concept was to invite artists to create nude...
The first rule of going to a Paul McCarthy opening at the Hammer is not to go hungry—art lovers shall not live on breadsticks alone. Visibly disappointed, Artillery writer Ezrha Jean Black arrived right at the moment the food was being whisked away while...
"Photography is dead," Christopher Russell declares in the statement for his current show, arguing that with the ease and popularity of digital manipulation, "there is no longer a belief that the captured image is anything more than a record of personalized fictions."...
More than a re-imagining of the Michael Jackson story, Julien Nitzberg’s play, For the Love of a Glove, serves as a point of departure for a wildly surreal take on an already bizarre life, from the troubled entertainer’s repressed childhood in Gary, Indiana, to the...
At the Wende Museum, "The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain" spotlights 33 artists that lived in Eastern Bloc countries during Soviet rule. This provocatively themed survey includes familiar names such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Geta...
If you’ve ever visited “The Bean” in Chicago and thought, this is cool, but I just wish I could somehow go inside it, then Anish Kapoor’s new installation at Regen Projects is the show for you. Made of the same high-polished, flawless, undulating stainless steel, a...
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