Focus on the American West
SITE Santa Fe. New Perspectives on Art of the AmericasArianna Carossa | Dec 12, 2016
The SITE Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art is a special museum, in that it is a profoundly revolutionary element that subverts, without explicit declarations, non-expressed but constant rules that appear with such …
The environment as a stage: Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s experimentsAlessandra Saviotti | Mar 16, 2016
I usually go running at Stern Grove, a park very popular among San Francisco’s music lovers because of its yearly free music festival. Every time I pass by the natural amphitheater, I don’t feel I …
Movement Break: Adelita Husni-Bey investigates sport as a metaphor of life’s endless performanceAlessandra Saviotti | Feb 4, 2016
Do Epic Shit. This statement was written on a huge black advertising board in downtown San Francisco last February. At a first sight it made me smile, then it started to make me …
Joe Goode at the Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisMary Coyne | May 4, 2015
Joe Goode, who was born in Oklahoma City towards the end of the great depression has played a role in art history as a Los Angeles painter, adjacent to, but somewhat outside of the Ferus …
Vincent Lamouroux’s Projection: A call to notice yourself through a deep reflection of what we presently faceEmily Kramer | Apr 27, 2015
Coming upon Vincent Lamouroux’s white washed building is like finding the perfect black dress. It looks great during the day, accessorized by a casual blue sky and also transitions well to night, the …
Pierre Huyghe at LACMA: Unexpected Pleasures and DisappoinmentsOlivia Fales | Jan 16, 2015
To naysayers of contemporary art, Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective at LACMA is bound to be the last straw. To an open mind, it will have a positively jostling impact. Huyghe’s body of work is as contemporary …
Coco’s journey in Margaret Haines’ art filmRobin Newman | Oct 8, 2014
“The rings of Saturn start to look like one cosmic noose,” so proclaims Coco as she loops a nameplate necklace. Coco is the lead of Margaret V. Haines’ film Coco, which tells the story of …
Make Something of Yourself. Made in L.A. 2014Emily Kramer | Aug 13, 2014
“If you are committed to love, courage, magic, fearless adventuring into the unknown, and continuous expansion for all on this earth and beyond, please take a booklet.” The invitation from artist Jennifer Moon is written …
John Altoon: Little-known giant, now at LACMAOlivia Fales | Jul 7, 2014
The work of John Altoon is anything but innocuous, yet its playfulness can lead you to think otherwise. His paintings and works on paper burst with color; his ink drawings sizzle. Looking at Altoon’s work …
Contemporary glass at Craft in America CenterOlivia Fales | Jun 23, 2014
The popular notion of glass-as-ornament loses ground at the Craft in America Center, where their current exhibition of studio glass, Seeing Into It: Messages in Glass, is on view through the end of June. Featuring the work …
100 Strong: Connecting through the power of foodOlivia Fales | Jun 12, 2014
Artist and chef Maggie Lawson draws a clear distinction between ceremony and ritual. A ceremony is a way of formalizing an event in a community; a ritual can be inscribed within that ceremony, or it …
Secrets and Lies at MCASDEsther Lee | Apr 30, 2014
Secret and Lies is an exhibition on view now at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown that discusses the implicit lie of the art object and presents work that studies this phenomena. Straddling …
