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Jim Hodges, Walker Art Center Jim Hodges’ Give More Than You Take at the Walker is a Must See
Joel Hagen |

Before I go further, let’s get the recommendation out of the way. If you have a chance to see the Jim Hodges retrospective, “Give More Than You Take,” currently at the Walker Art Center, just …

Josh Begley, SFMoMA Symposium-fest at SFMoMA
Olivia Fales |

For a museum that’s closed for construction, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been very active. Their tagline says it all: “We’ve temporarily moved…everywhere.” One recent weekend SFMoMA was, indeed, all over San Francisco. …

Jiehao Su, Actual Size China’s land, sea, and sky. In Search Of Home by Jiehao Su at Actual Size LA
Olivia Fales |

It’s no accident that the Roman poet Ovid began the Metamorphoses, his epic poem of change and unrest, with the creation and arrangement of land, sea, and sky—artists of all stripes are drawn to transformations, …

Gisela Colon, Lancaster Museum of Art and History Colorimetry Uses Color as Instigator
Kimberly Nichols |

Four years ago, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) went through a major renovation with its groundbreaking new building alongside the hiring of Andi Campognone, noted Southern California curator and arts-professional, to manage …

Vivian Maier, Minneapolis Photo Center Out of the Shadows, I See Vultures. Vivian Maier’s Photography
Joel Hagen |

I’m 12 feet down the hallway of the Vivian Maier exhibit and I’m trying not to cry and I’m trying to figure out a reason. I walked in with a cursory sense of the photographer. …

Redfoxpress & Antic-Ham, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Books, books everywhere. LA Art Book Fair 2014
Olivia Fales |

You’d think a gathering of hip and beautiful people might verge on pretentious, but the LA Art Book Fair was a cliché-trumper. A colorful scene flooded the galleries of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with …

Jenny Odell, Intersection for the Arts. The world seen through the eye of Google Satellite: Infrastructure, an exhibition by Jenny Odell
Diana Gadaldi |

On February 5th, 2014, the Bay Area native artist Jenny Odell opened her latest solo exhibition at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) …

Karen Lofgren, High Desert Test Sites Karen Lofgren’s “Trajectory Object” Buried at High Desert Test Sites
Kimberly Nichols |

From 2010 through 2013, artist Karen Lofgren was mentally occupied by the nature of time and the idea that we, as human beings, take it for granted as relatively concrete. Within our life spans we …

Su-Chen Hung, East / West, 1984 / 1987. A conversation with Su-Chen Hung: resonances from the past and a look into her future projects
Diana Gadaldi |

My first meeting with visual artist Su-Chen Hung dates back to April 2013, when her latest solo exhibition Ants in the City opened at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located …

HomeLA, Eagle Rock There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s Take on Suburban Solace
Emily Kramer |

As private site-specific dance performances go, the ones produced by Rebecca Bruno’s HomeLA are pretty special. The last installment (in Highland Park) featured six pieces showed at both dawn and dusk of the same day, …

Hito Steyerl, Walker Art Center Mix 9 Artists and What Do You Get?
Joel Hagen |

One of the goals of a well-tuned barbershop quartet is the distinct “fifth voice,” which is an acoustic phenomenon found when four rich voices sing certain chords. The harmonics align just right to create a …

Benjamin Reiss, Actual Size Benjamin Reiss: Creating to Understand
Olivia Fales |

The human body is a complex machine- we know this. If a sculpture’s framework evokes the body, you can bet that it, too, is complex. Bejamin Reiss’s sculpture Automobile (2009-2012), a life-size tower of colorful …

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