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There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s Take on Suburban SolaceEmily Kramer | Jan 14, 2014
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, …
Massimo Minini: Forty Years of Contemporary ArtEleonora Salvi | Jan 13, 2014
Bonaspetti and Minini agreed that the criterion for the works’ selection on show would been simply: “The unsold”. A curious license that made the exhibition at the Triennale in Milan dedicated to Massimo Minini, a …
Mix 9 Artists and What Do You Get?Joel Hagen | Jan 10, 2014
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 …
Michela Alessandrini | Jan 7, 2014
Peter Hutton does not like digital cameras but likes mint candies very much. American independent filmmaker Peter Hutton was born in Detroit in 1944. He has taught at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, and …
Benjamin Reiss: Creating to UnderstandOlivia Fales | Jan 3, 2014
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 …
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, …
Rituals of Rented Island at the Whitney Museum of American ArtRobin Newman | Dec 24, 2013
Rituals of Rented Island currently on view at The Whitney Museum is a groundbreaking reinvestigation of downtown New York art from 1970-1980. The exhibition returns to the beginnings of New York performance art in a …
Conversation with Babette Mangolte about her Whitney Museum show, and moreMary Coyne | Dec 20, 2013
Last month I was able to sit down with Babette Mangolte, the filmmaker and photographer whose work is currently featured in at the Whitney’s Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New …
The double life of P.V. – Paolo Ventura’s new work at Museo Palazzo dei PioVincenzo Estremo | Dec 17, 2013
In 1826 French inventor Nicéphore Niépce used a coating of bitumen to make the first permanent camera photograph, but a camera exposure lasting for hours or days was required. Only years later Louis Daguerre, French …
If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. Home Truths at the Photographers’ GallerySarah El-Taki | Dec 10, 2013
This week I went to see the new exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery, Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity. To my recollection I have never given birth or had children so I felt it would be …
Mingei: Are You Here? at Pace LondonSophie Mayer | Dec 6, 2013
Mingei: Are You Here? Is the current exhibition at Pace London, open till January 18th. Situated in trendy Soho (Lexington Street) this gallery space is on the first floor, you haveto be buzzed into the …
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 …
