Two Libraries: Recently Sorted Books is the latest in Ms. Katchadourian’s twenty-year project series, Sorted Books. “Once Upon a Time in Delaware/In Quest of the Perfect Book,” and “Family Gathering” are insightful, clever, and multi-layered. …

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 …

In Nice, thirty of Luc Tuymans’ oil paintings are exhibited side-by-side with notable and diverse pieces, including masks and carved heads from The Menil’s African and Native American collections and paintings from more contemporary collections …

A wonderful and occasionally startling profusion of blues—cobalt, translucent, marine, and of course, Middle—greets you at this ambitious and sprawling retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The curators Debra Burchett-Lere and Peter Selz, …

In this series of aerial photographs by Thomas Heinser, man-made interventions (highways, runways) cut through the open landscapes. Sometimes a natural intervention, such as water, cuts across, but the effect is no less jarring and …

This immersive and multi-layered new work by filmmaker Werner Herzog was created for the 2012 Whitney Biennal and is his first video art installation. As with Mr. Herzog’s other work, this has a strong musical …

During Diebenkorn’s Berkeley years, the Bay Area was the place for artistic discovery and social and political awakening. His contemporaries, which included the writers Joan Didion and Allen Ginsburg and the artists Jay DeFeo, David …

Ed Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, saw Los Angeles for the first time at 14, returned as a student, and today is still one of the best chroniclers of American/Los Angeles life. Much of …

The prolific Augustine Kofie’s work is wide-ranging, including murals, assemblage, film, public art, and watercolor, but this show focuses on a series of acrylic and ink works produced earlier this year. These works concerning “sound …

Migrating Identities features the work of eight artists who are currently based in the United States, but collectively have connections to such diverse countries as Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Peru, and the Philippines. …

Inside Out includes sixty works by twenty-three artists, including Teresa Margolles, Gabriel Orozco, Francis Alÿs, Damián Ortega, Melanie Smith, and Naomi Rincón-Gallardo. These artists, some native-born, others like Alÿs who migrated there, cover contemporary issues …