The Summer I Couldn’t Sleep Yew trees branched into my veins. Needles pricked my hands my wrists— needles punctured my chest, a harbor for a man-made conduit. Nothing stemmed my desire for you. Nothing stopped the waking hours filled with longing for— I am expected...
Tell us about yourself: I’ve been collecting for more than forty years. During that time, I’ve advised collectors on building collections and helped revive interest in several important artists’ estates. Right now, I’m helping a gallery in Hangzhou, China get started....
Question: "We all know that using ChatGPT as a therapist is a bad idea. but can you explain in a clinical way why it's bad? I would like something that I can just send my friends when they tell me they're using it this way?" Answer: Well, let us begin by stating...
1. Top 3 songs “Crisi Metrepolitani” Giuni Russo “My Man’s Gone Now” Latonia Moore “Una Voce Poco Fa” Maria Callas 2. Top 3 dead artists Philip Guston Lee Bontecou Philadelphia Wireman 3. Most valuable lesson learned in art school? I think John Baldessari taught me...
In filmmaker Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), over the course of 76 minutes we hear acclaimed queer New York City photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recount the contents of his previous day on 18 December 1974 to writer and personal confidant Linda Rosenkrantz...
When Ewa Wojciak met Bruce Kalberg, she had just received her MFA and landed a job as the art director of the recently launched LA Weekly. Kalberg was working as a temporary assistant in the accounting office. Their first lunchbreak together, Kalberg told Wojciak he...
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker Through the pendulum swings of expansion-and-contraction in the global art market, I’ve noticed an uptick in the use of new-wave esoteric vernacular—typically a distinctly West Coast phenomenon—applied...
All of Marina Stern’s work is weighty. The objects in her intensely matte, sleek oil paintings and densely packed graphite drawings receive an egalitarian touch. In contrast to often airy and delicate subjects—paper, string, and flowers—Stern’s quality of paint is...
At first, the installation in London’s Whitechapel Gallery seems childish: flimsy cardboard walls covered in forests, foliage and animals, all painted with loose brushwork, like set design the adults painted for their kids’ school play. In Candice Lin’s world of...
The Smithsonian, the nation’s cultural voice established by Congress in 1846, is under attack. Financially seeded by Englishman James Smithson, who was ostensibly enamored by the great American Experiment, it has since morphed into the world's largest museum,...
The title of this exhibition, “Disappear Here,” is a reference to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Less Than Zero. It alludes to the reality of anonymity in a city in which fame and glamour are the reigning myths. However, the works on hand only reflect these themes in a...
At the center of “Dew Point,” the current exhibition at François Ghebaly, hangs artist Lily Clark’s Inyo (2025), a sculpture of much poetry and power. Clark suspends a large hunk of alabaster from the rafters where water drips from the rock, filling up a steel basin...
“Thus time goes by,” Robert Filliou writes at the end of Whispered Art History (1963), the short document in which he declares January 17th the official birthday of art. In Filliou’s telling, art begins not with genius or mastery but with an ordinary gesture made...
Few exhibitions make the gap between the United States and the rest of the world’s art capitals so blatant than “Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Pegged as the artist’s solo debut in the US, the exhibition...
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