Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles
Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation
Looking at Los Angeles
Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation
Erin Sweeny explores the lives and work of LA-based artists Devin Farrand and Ariel Herwitz, a couple investigating vastly different materials in their independent art practices.
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The Architect, the Artist, and the House That’s Become a Star
Looking at Los Angeles
The Architect, the Artist, and the House That’s Become a Star
Catherine Wagley visits the famous Sheats-Goldstein House and considers the pop culture present of this fifty-year-old residence by architect John Lautner.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara T. Smith: Cheek To Glass, Electric Impressions of the Material Body
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara T. Smith: Cheek To Glass, Electric Impressions of the Material Body
Danielle McCullough recounts the life of politically-engaged performer and “body artist” Barbara T. Smith.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Being Difficult
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Being Difficult
Llyn Foulkes “has never had nor seemed to want any conceptual smoothness.” Columnist Catherine Wagley on the maverick artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Danielle McCullough attends the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and is introduced to the Slavs and Tatars collective.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Columnist Danielle McCullough writes about the work of Los Angeles-based artist Heather Rasmussen and her ongoing interest in catastrophe.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Truth and Illusion, Pigeons and Freeways
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Truth and Illusion, Pigeons and Freeways
Catherine Wagley details an L.A. artist’s Quixotic efforts to hack freeway signs using homing pigeons. But was any of it for real?
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Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
New “Looking at Los Angeles” contributor Danielle McCullough surveys the independent film scene in Los Angeles.
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Looking at Los Angeles | I Already Know I Exist: Ken Price at LACMA
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | I Already Know I Exist: Ken Price at LACMA
Catherine Wagley considers the role that personal biography plays–or doesn’t–in LACMA’s newly-opened “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.”
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Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Lily Simonson reviews a group show featuring collage works by Art21 artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Mark Bradford, and Paul McCarthy.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
The writer and fashion icon Anna Piaggi, who died this week at 81, serves as a reminder that in art, as life, one-off gestures are often the most memorable ones.
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Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Lily Simonson talks to an LA artist whose recent video installation evokes the domestic tension of familial and romantic relationships.
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Looking at Los Angeles | The MOCA Debacle: What Does ‘Visually Stimulating’ Even Mean?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The MOCA Debacle: What Does ‘Visually Stimulating’ Even Mean?
Catherine Wagley on Paul Schimmel’s controversial departure from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
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Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Fresh off her solo exhibition in LA, Lily Simonson has the opportunity to paint a portrait of Joan Quinn, the legendary West Coast editor of Interview magazine.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Catherine Wagley muses on family, history, and the relation of both in artworks by Patricia Fernandez and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle in the Los Angeles Biennial.
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Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz is more than just the nude woman famously photographed playing chess with Duchamp; she is an influential writer whose books are now much-coveted items.
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Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
When the display of a luxury car leads Catherine Wagley to mistake a performance festival for a fundraiser, the slippery relations between art and commerce become clear.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
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Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Catherine Wagley reflects on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the infamously popular “Painter of Light” who pushed the idea of coziness to mind-numbing extremes.
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Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Catherine Wagley reviews the group show “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” on view now at LACMA.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Mike Kelley’s Elegance
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mike Kelley’s Elegance
Mike Kelley gained renown for his sprawling, mixed-media installations, but Catherine Wagley argues that Kelley’s oeuvre should also be remembered for its elegance.
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Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
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