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Excavating Natural History Mark Dion Explores the Sticky Wonders and Legacy of the La Brea Tar Pits

Excavating Natural History
Mark Dion Explores the Sticky Wonders and Legacy of the La Brea Tar Pits

As an urban kid growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, I adored the American Museum of Natural History. The low-lit museum seemed like a palace of wonders to me. In its inner chambers the glowing dioramas of exotic animals in their native habitats appeared like...

Linda Vallejo A New Exhibition at parrasch heijnen Showcases Five Decades of the Artist’s Work

Linda Vallejo
A New Exhibition at parrasch heijnen Showcases Five Decades of the Artist’s Work

Linda Vallejo’s career-spanning exhibition at parrasch heijen is a homecoming of sorts. The gallery is ensconced in the center of Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights district, where she was born, and a stone’s throw from the iconic Sears Building — an area where Vallejo spent...

The Appropriated Strike Back Is the Idea of What and Who Is Appropriatable Changing?

The Appropriated Strike Back
Is the Idea of What and Who Is Appropriatable Changing?

While many of the contemporary art world’s basic assumptions have been challenged in recent years, one that has remained remarkably constant since at least the 1960s is the collective verdict on appropriation: It’s fine! Andy did it, so it must be—and too many...

BUNKER VISION Beyond Hollywood

BUNKER VISION
Beyond Hollywood

One of the most reported trends in the migration from LA to more affordable places involves people who work in Hollywood. While a certain number of these stories focus on moving to places that give tax breaks to film productions, the human-interest beat focuses its...

SHOP TALK: LA ART NEWS Fall in Los Angeles

SHOP TALK: LA ART NEWS
Fall in Los Angeles

Fall is finally here, after a heat-addled summer in SoCal. I hope we don’t have any more of those 100-degree temps, because some of us don’t have central air, and it was brutal throughout August and September. On those hottest days I told myself, autumn is coming....

POEMS "Fame" and "In Our Shadow"

POEMS
"Fame" and "In Our Shadow"

Fame There are some people who can barely be tolerated in person but are beloved as fictional characters. One reads about them in a book or watches them on a screen, and one feels special because one recognizes their beauty. But when one meets them in person, one...

ASK BABS

ASK BABS

Dear Babs: I’m an artist who uses industrial materials like spray paint, epoxy and fiberglass in my oil paintings. I use a respirator and my studio has decent ventilation, but I know it’s not the best. Recently, my doctor raised concerns about potential long-term...

Larry Johnson/curated by Larry Johnson at Reena Spaulings/ O-Town House

Larry Johnson/curated by Larry Johnson
at Reena Spaulings/ O-Town House

In two exhibitions spanning galleries some twenty-minutes apart depending on traffic, Larry Johnson presents his own work alongside that of two other gay artists of a certain age and a certain generation, who lived through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and early...

Aria Dean at Château Shatto

Aria Dean
at Château Shatto

In her still-young career, Aria Dean has shown a remarkable knack for giving the institution exactly what it wants: shrewd work that stings the nerve of the moment without quite stabbing it. In activating the virtual as a conduit for Black radical thought, Dean’s...

Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art at Wonzimer Gallery

Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art
at Wonzimer Gallery

This show at Wonzimer Gallery, organized by contributing artist Marcie Begleiter, is inspired by the Voynich Manuscript, a work that constitutes a parallel exhibition to the show she curated. The Voynich is a mysterious codex from around the year 1410 by an unknown...

Duncan Hannah at The Journal Gallery

Duncan Hannah
at The Journal Gallery

In the early years of cinema, actors were treated as crew members working the conveyor belt of industrialized studio systems. But by the silent-film era of the 1910s, the star system had begun to take hold, with close-ups articulating a visual language of desire...

The Harrison Studio [Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison] Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth Water, Interface or Annual Hog Pasture Mix (1970-71) at Various Small Fires

The Harrison Studio [Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison]
Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth Water, Interface or Annual Hog Pasture Mix (1970-71) at Various Small Fires

Organized in concert with the Getty’s PST ART initiative, this re-mounting of Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water Interface or Annual Hog Pasture Mix (1970–71) — in keeping with the entirety of the Harrison collective’s output — is less about a “collision” (per PST’s...

Cai Guo-Qiang and cAI™ at the Los Angeles Coliseum

Cai Guo-Qiang and cAI™
at the Los Angeles Coliseum

At dusk on September fifteenth, nearly 5,000 spectators gathered on the field of the Los Angeles Coliseum to view WE ARE: EXPLOSION EVENT FOR PST ART, a monumental daytime fireworks display by Cai Guo-Qiang* and his custom artificial intelligence model cAI™....

Nate Lowman at David Zwirner

Nate Lowman
at David Zwirner

I’ll admit that before attending a press walkthrough for Nate Lowman’s “Parking” at David Zwirner a few weeks ago, I wasn’t familiar with Lowman’s oeuvre. The paintings first appeared to me thumbnail-size, attached to my iPhone invitation. I noted glowing, riparian...

Seeing Detroit Through Fresh Eyes Taylor Renee Aldridge Returns to her Hometown to Head Modern Ancient Brown Foundation

Seeing Detroit Through Fresh Eyes
Taylor Renee Aldridge Returns to her Hometown to Head Modern Ancient Brown Foundation

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Detroit for the first time in my life. What a magnificently diverse city bustling with bars and restaurants on every corner in the downtown area, with one of the top encyclopedic art museums in the nation where the socialist...

Lotus L. Kang at Commonwealth and Council

Lotus L. Kang
at Commonwealth and Council

To experience lack is to be reminded of the boundaries of the self, of others. Lacking realizes the unassailable distance between you and everything you don’t and won’t ever have. Therein to lack enlivens desire, or does desire require a lack of something? Kang’s...

Eugenia P. Butler at The Box

Eugenia P. Butler
at The Box

Butler’s threadbare saffron works-on-silk line the perimeter of the back gallery, floating forward and back, filling and falling as if breathing. Suspended by invisible supports and backlit, the delicate veils with their enigmatic marks and hand-drawn symbols...

Shirazeh Houshiary at Lisson Gallery

Shirazeh Houshiary
at Lisson Gallery

Houshiary's mesmeric abstract canvases depose our human perception of scope and scale, engaging the macro and microscopic; they connect a single breath to the breadth of the sea, carbon's molecular structure to the structural integrity of a star. The intricate pencil...

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