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Marisa Merz at the Serpentine GalleryGowri Balasegaram | Oct 7, 2013
In tandem with the launch of its sister gallery, The Serpentine Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Marisa Merz’s work, spanning her 50 year career. Although Merz has had solo shows internationally and has participated …
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 …
Adrián Villar Rojas, Today We Reboot The Planet, Serpentine Sackler GalleryGowri Balasegaram | Oct 1, 2013
The inaugural exhibition at the newly launched Serpentine Sackler Gallery had much to live up to. Its elder sibling, The Serpentine Gallery, is a major destination for contemporary art and culture, having so well …
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 …
James Turrell: A Retrospective, LACMA, Los AngelesRobin Newman | Aug 6, 2013
The renowned artist James Turrell, who masterfully works with light and space, is currently being acclaimed with a large retrospective. Due to the room size scale of much of his work the exhibit is taking …
It’s New / It’s Now, but it’s not for meJoel Hagen | Aug 1, 2013
As someone who comes at the art scene from a lit background, I admit I have my preferences when it comes to picking events and shows to see. I’m much more apt to latch onto …
The Portrait Room. Portrait#3: Mladen MiljanovicMichela Alessandrini | Jul 31, 2013
Mladen Miljanovic has Daft Punk’s “Get lucky” as his mobile ringtone and loves to consider things from different points of view. Mladen is 32 years old and is representing Bosnia and Herzegovina at the …
The Portrait Room. Portrait#2: Yves AupetitallotMichela Alessandrini | Jul 19, 2013
Yves Aupetitallot has too many catalogues to unwrap, and clear ideas. Born in 1955, Yves Aupetitallot is the director of the MAGASIN-CNAC (Centre National d’Art Contemporain) of Grenoble, and not only. When I ask …
Leandro Erlich at The Barbican Gallery, LondonSiân Louise Spicer | Jul 17, 2013
If you want to defy the laws of physics, and walk up a brick wall, then this is the place. The new installation by Leandro Erlich at Dalston House (commissioned by Barbican Gallery) sees a …
Painting In Place, Los Angeles Nomadic DivisionRobin Newman | Jul 15, 2013
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is presenting Painting in Place, a group exhibition in downtown Los Angeles’s Farmers and Merchants Bank forging an unlikely gallery space. The exhibition, curated by LAND Director/Curator Shamim M. Momin, …
