William Pope.L’s powerful exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary subtly replaces passive viewing with multisensory experience. The show teems with possibilities for heighte…
By its nature, meditation involves an element of repetition—sitting each day, observing each breath—that rewards the practitioner with a diversity of inner experience.
Mario Ybarra Jr.'s emotionally layered exhibition "Double Feature" was a compilation of two projects: "Scarface Museum," a collection of memorabilia from Brian de Palma's 1983 movie, which was a fav…
“Made in L.A.,” the ambitious biennial co-organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART, provided undeniable proof (should any be required post-PST) that the city has arrived as an international art cen…
In most accounts, Surrealism unfolds on European soil with a cast of male artists. "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" counters, and builds up…
A girl walks alone across a snowy ex- panse at night. A young man sits amid a scattering of books while sun filters in through brightly patterned curtains. The placid countenances and lax postures of…
Nancy Riegelman’s work unfolds slowly, rewarding the patient observer with an optimistic and ethereal view of passing time. For several years, the artist has engaged in a rigorous practice of docume…
In the early 1970s, as the Chicano Movement intensified, four graduates from Garfield High School in the Mexican-American neighborhood of East Los Angeles—Harry Gamboa, Jr., Willie F. Herrón III, Gl…
John Outterbridge’s recent exhibition “The Rag Factory” was a poetic treatment of relevant social issues, such as the stark division between haves and have-nots, and reflected the resilience and fra…