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MOURNING SICKNESS A spate of Sad Girl art is on view in LA this spring—but is our interest in Sad Girls subversive or exploitative?

MOURNING SICKNESS
A spate of Sad Girl art is on view in LA this spring—but is our interest in Sad Girls subversive or exploitative?

Thérésa Tallien, the French Revolution’s ‘it’ girl, knew how to manipulate perception. Once an emblem of revolutionary glamour, she played the game until it turned against her. Even in captivity, awaiting execution, she refused to become a simple object of pity. The...

Alex Israel at Gagosian

Alex Israel
at Gagosian

To prepare for his current show “Noir” at Gagosian, Alex Israel claims to have walked about fifteen thousand steps per day around Los Angeles. This is highly unusual and, honestly, suspect. As the saying goes, no one walks in LA. Yet Israel insists on it and says that...

Jacqueline Humphries at Matthew Marks

Jacqueline Humphries
at Matthew Marks

We recognize the legacy Jacqueline Humphries is working from the moment we set foot in Matthew Marks’ two gallery spaces; yet something throws the viewer slightly off. It’s the echt gestural vocabulary of post-World War II art, but as if viewed through a scrim or...

Ramsey Alderson at Tiffany's

Ramsey Alderson
at Tiffany's

It’s a matter of complete coincidence that Ramsey Alderson’s show “d’Or” at Tiffany’s—an East Hollywood artist-run garage space programmed by Adam Verdugo—coincides with the 17th anniversary of the notorious Emos vs. Punks Fight held in Mexico City’s Glorieta de Los...

Gregg Bordowitz at The Brick

Gregg Bordowitz
at The Brick

I left Gregg Bordowitz’s recently-closed exhibition at The Brick, “This is Not a Love Song,” thinking the same thing as upon leaving The Brutalist: “I didn’t know it was going to be so Jewish.” In both, the artist’s Jewish identity weaves through a deep consideration...

David Hammons at Hauser & Wirth

David Hammons
at Hauser & Wirth

I went in blind to David Hammons’ Concerto in Black and Blue (on view for the first time since its 2002 debut)—both literally and figuratively. When I pushed back the heavy curtain shrouding the gallery, darkness swallowed me. I couldn’t pull out my phone to navigate...

XIAO HE at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary

XIAO HE
at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary

There is something a little chipper about the art world right now that belies the national mood. Palettes tend toward cheery hues and uncomplicated content. Not that there’s anything wrong with upbeat paintings, it just seems like there are other types of content...

CONVERSION at Cheremoya

CONVERSION
at Cheremoya

The title of the two-person show at Cheremoya, “Conversion,” has a twofold implication: religious and material transformation. Calla Donofrio’s desaturated paintings depict acts of (sometimes sexual) violence that have been censored by parts of the image being blacked...

ROBERT RUSSELL at Anat Ebgi

ROBERT RUSSELL
at Anat Ebgi

In Robert Russell’s solo show “Stateless Objects,” lush paintings of solitary vessels and kitchenware float like apparitions on the walls of Anat Ebgi. A mix of Judaica—challah platters, kiddush cups, and the like—alongside porcelain teacups produced in pre-Holocaust...

YORGOS LANTHIMOS at Webber Gallery

YORGOS LANTHIMOS
at Webber Gallery

The images in Yorgos Lanthimos’ first photography exhibition were captured while the filmmaker was shooting Kinds of Kindness (2024) and Poor Things (2023), but you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at them. Except for the actress Hunter Schafer in one stark...

TERESA MURTA at Nicodim

TERESA MURTA
at Nicodim

Teresa Murta’s hallucinatory fever dream of gestural abstraction is full of organic lines and undulating forms that made me feel like I was finding images in clouds that would begin to take a familiar form before disintegrating before my eyes. Is that a bouquet...

DL ALVAREZ at Guerrero Gallery

DL ALVAREZ
at Guerrero Gallery

Those of us who have dreamed—which I pray is everyone reading this—know how it goes: A cacophony of vignettes rattle through your unconscious, some a single flash, some endless, though in reality, they’re all only a few seconds in duration. No matter their...

JOE SOLA at La Loma Projects

JOE SOLA
at La Loma Projects

It seems heaven is butter scented. Or at least La Loma Projects is butter scented. And who knew the Pearly Gates were actually in Highland Park? Walking through those gallery doors, you’re hit with a bright light that really does feel like a scene out of a...

KYLE DUNN at Vielmetter

KYLE DUNN
at Vielmetter

Kyle Dunn celebrates the languid vibe of siesta culture through figurative and still-life pieces. The works on view use acrylic to replicate the luminosity of the Old Masters’ oils, giving Vermeer illuminated by the harsh New York summer sun. Siesta (2024)...

HAILEY HEATON at Authorized Dealer

HAILEY HEATON
at Authorized Dealer

Sontag famously wrote about the photograph as a means of securing ownership over an ethereal past. Her words come to mind as one moves through Hailey Heaton’s "Hissyfit," which reckons with the erosion of memory (and therefore history) through dementia. (The...

KELLY AKASHI at Lisson Gallery

KELLY AKASHI
at Lisson Gallery

Time is a common theme in Kelly Akashi’s work. Doilies inherited from her grandmother represent the past. The artist’s hands, cast in bronze, serve as timestamps for the present— lines and wrinkles marking specific moments. Cast bronze seed pods represent the...

Ramekon O’Arwisters at Craft Contemporary

Ramekon O’Arwisters
at Craft Contemporary

Textile art has not always been one of my favorite mediums, but Ramekon O’Arwisters' exhibit altered my thinking. At a time where being Black and Queer, and any semblance of DEI seems fraught - the artist has come out swinging. The thoughtfully curated show is...

FAIR AND SQUARE Post-Fair Brings Equitability to Santa Monica

FAIR AND SQUARE
Post-Fair Brings Equitability to Santa Monica

Last week, during Los Angeles Art Week, I saw James Franco everywhere. I saw James Franco at Felix at the Hollywood Roosevelt, where the David Hockney-painted pool was closed because a man had had a heart attack inside it the day before. I saw James Franco at...

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