What are the classificatory criteria we use to distinguish celebrities from politicos, the orbit of Hollywood's heavenly bodies from the operations of elected officials on the ground? Or Ronald Reagan…
It seemed a familiar cinematic moment: a woman puts a gun to her temple and pulls the trigger but all that is heard is a click. But wait. “Now quiet, now listen,” she says cryptically. “These words ar…
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…
The Los Angeles-born, New York-based artist Anne Collier takes on today's fast-paced digital paradigm and its implications, indirectly if not directly, in nearly 40 black-and-white and color photogr…
With the recent “Pacific Standard Time” program of postwar art shows, and now the Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Blues for Smoke,” Los Angeles has emerged as a place to challenge curatorial conventio…
Simplicity and complexity. Construction and deconstruction. Permanence and impermanence. Thought and feeling. These contrasting states intersect in fascinating, often unexpected ways in French artis…
RASHID JOHNSON'S ARTWORKS are meditations on the cultural phenomena that shape African-Americans as a social group. Viewers of his videos, photographs, sculptures, paintings and installations are lo…