Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was…
Best known for his "Autoconstrucción" series, Cruzvillegas often lends use-value to the castoff by calling attention to reclaimed or neglected materials. His 2009 film of the same title documented…
Snow is best known for ephemeral sculptures made of vernacular materials—eggs, wigs, inflatables, papier-mâché flowers and water hoses. Earlier this year at Maccarone, New York, she dangled…
New York-based artist Ei Arakawa opened his latest performance-cum-exhibition at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, "I Am An Employee of United, Volume 2" [through Oct. 27] with a vision of excess com…
A bad omen was the weekend's shutdown of the 405 freeway between the San Fernando Valley and the 10 freeway in the basin, one of the busiest auto corridors in the world, and an artery that many spec…
With a trenchant sense of hyperbole, the exhibition emulates a press conference, complete with a complimentary meal (boiled eggs with skulls painted on the shells for visitors to eat, coffee and ros…
The indefatigable curator Hans Ulrich Obrist arrived in Los Angeles last month to launch the Institute of the 21st Century, aiming to digitize the entirety of his 20-year spanning interview proje…