Focus on the American West
The House That Agnès Built. Agnès Varda at LACMAEmily Kramer | Jan 2, 2014
If you recognize the house as a symbol of the self, then you’ll get the subtle joke of Agnès Varda’s film house installations, one of which is up at LACMA through June 22nd, 2014. The structure, …
Candice Breitz, The Woods, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los AngelesAstra Price | Dec 5, 2013
In traditional fairy tales, a character’s entry into the woods often acts as a point of loss and discovery. Hansel and Gretel lose their way, Little Red Riding Hood realizes that her Grandma is not …
Forrest Bess: Seeing Things InvisibleKimberly Nichols | Nov 27, 2013
Amongst a sea of plastic boobs, manicured humans, movie stars, gracious art donors and the crème de la crème of the Los Angeles art world scene at the recent annual Hammer Museum gala, I, with …
Room to Live: Contemporary, conceptual, CaliforniaCatherine Nueva España | Nov 25, 2013
California/Los Angeles occupies a definite place in my experience and imagination, having traveled there frequently for over a decade. It is both a place and a space for art and the creative process; a contradictory …
Carlo Zanni: The Sandman and other projects from Mars at Paul Young GalleryDiana Gadaldi | Nov 22, 2013
On November 14th, Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles hosted an exclusive one-day sale event featuring the work of some thirty new media artists from around the world. Because of the exceptional success of the initiative, …
Joel Shapiro at L.A. Louver Gallery, Los AngelesAsa Zabarsky | Nov 21, 2013
For an established sculptor to begin working in installation over the course the last decade could be dismissed as an obligatory gesture, an appeal to dominant trends in the art world. In the case of …
Tête à Tête: A Visual Conversation About FeminismAlex Moore | Oct 17, 2013
During September, RAID projects in Los Angeles hosted Tête à Tête, an exhibition that re-examined the 1969 feminist assertion that “the personal is political.” The show of work by all female-identified artists ranged from video to …
The California-Pacific Triennial at the OCMAEsther Lee | Oct 14, 2013
The California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art features 32 artists from 15 countries along the Pacific Ocean. Previously known as the California Biennial, which over the course of 25 years examined contemporary …
Lost in the Work: Drafting Universes by Sara SchnadtAlex Moore | Oct 3, 2013
On Sunday night, in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, a small group of believers gathered to witness the creation (and subsequent destruction) of the universe. After two cycles of the cosmos returning to …
Rock Garden Rocks My WorldJoel Hagen | Sep 25, 2013
Private symbols are always a tricky thing when dealing with art. Poet William Butler Yeats is perhaps best known for using private symbols in his work and still managing the incredible task of having the …
Interval/Habitat at Human Resources, Los AngelesAstra Price | Sep 9, 2013
Los Angeles has been a buzz with performance during the summer of 2013. Perform Chinatown and Confusion is Sex #3 were full of activity, providing an open space for finding small gems amongst a sea …
Beyond Belief at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San FranciscoLeslie Allen Spillane | Aug 28, 2013
With the closure of SFMOMA until 2016, their collection has expanded beyond the gallery and out into a variety of San Francisco venues and locations. Beyond Belief is their second off-site exhibition; a result of …
