1. What gallery you’ve recently been picked up by, even if it’s still “in the works”2. Mike Kelley3. Wherever you have recently vacationed. Bonus points if it’s somewhere in the south of France4. Transcending the art market5. Intersectionality6. Which famous (or...
The Day of Forevermore, Marnie Weber’s first feature film, is the culmination of the artist’s long career as a weaver of macabre and otherworldly scenarios through art, film and music. Over the last 25 years Weber has created her own distinctive realm of avant-garde...
Top Ten Unconventional Art Spaces1. KingswellThis skate shop in Los Feliz has had some surprisingly good art shows—most recently by the LA-based illustrator, Bonethrower. 2. The StandardThis downtown hotel is known to host performance and nontraditional art....
Fifty years ago—in May 1966—the Velvet Underground played their legendary West Coast debut at Hollywood nightclub The Trip as part of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. On the first night, the joint was packed with curiosity-seeking hipster celebrities; Cher...
In 2011, Peter Opheim abandoned abstraction and began sculpting small maquettes out of colored clay, which he’s continued to transform into monumental oil paintings that uncannily capture the sculptural quality of his small-scale models. Most of his initial pieces...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
In this unnerving performance video about child abuse, McCarthy, along with Mike Kelley, who co-stars, play a “father” and “son” respectively. As Kelley cowers nervously, McCarthy performs a series of penetrations on a variety of inanimate objects — violently stuffing...
For 11 years, Cliff Benjamin and Erin Kermanikian have co-owned Western Project in Culver City. Together they exhibit work that’s consistently challenging and boundary-breaking, representing artists like Tom of Finland (before he was MOCA-acceptable), Bob Flanagan and...
James Lingwood arrives at the Artangel office in a fluorescent yellow cycling jacket, having just ridden across London from another meeting. He looks like an accountant with his neat hair and glasses, though he studied history and art history at Oxford. His world...
Altered States at Patrick Painter represents yet another collective representation of irrational modes of being where sometimes the simplest gesture is the most oddly satisfying. Comprised of Justin Bower, Martin Kippenberger, Rinus Van De Velde, Valie Export and Mike...
What do Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Richard Prince and Jeff Koons have in common? If you answered all are old white-guy artists that make lots of money with their art, you would have answered correctly. But they have another thing in common. They are all NOT...
Ry Rocklen saved oyster shells, along with some rocks, then tried to unload them one day at a garage sale. “I didn’t sell a thing,“ he told me in an interview, about his boyhood collecting obsession. Decades later, he is still drawn to treasuring odd stuff: discarded...
Dear Readers,Lately I’ve been getting wistful for the past. It’s not that I want to go back, never to return. It’s more that I yearn for more simple and innocent times; I’m not sure I prefer wisdom to naiveté.It’s the direction art has been going that has made me...
The residential valley neighborhood wasn’t what I was expecting when I went to Chas Smith’s studio for our interview. Big shade trees lined the wide boulevards of modest houses and neat lawns. Smith has been Paul McCarthy’s main art assistant for over a decade, and...
I think it’s safe to say that LACMA is on something of ‘a roll,’ lately. The sheer critical mass of masterpiece art on view this summer, especially on the west side of the campus, seems almost enough to shift the center of gravity of metropolitan Los Angeles – or at...
Mike Kelley was a ruthless investigator, of everything from Mother Mary, to rainbow afro wigs to stuffed toys to the complex mechanism, which was his own mind. The works that comprise this retrospective are alternately humorous and aggressive, quietly lurking and...
One rainy afternoon, Edward Goldman’s parents popped into the winter palace of the Russian Czars, known today as the state Hermitage Museum of Russia, with their young son. The next time it rained, Edward asked to go again to the “place where naked men and women are...
Mike Kelley participated in our Guest Lecture series by providing this spread that he designed specifically for the centerfold of our March/April issue of 2009. John Waters is also the featured cover story in this very special issue.
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