Both the Whitney Biennial and the Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art opened in March. The Biennial is old: the current iteration is its seventy-second. The Triennial, which closed in May, wa…
While Europe and the US continue to regard contemporary Chinese art with skepticism, curators and collectors in China now foster a dynamic mix of Eastern and Western works, as the current Shanghai Bie…
On Laura Owens at CCA Wattis, Samara Golden at Yerba Buena Center, Pierre Bonnard at Legion of Honor, Bridget Riley at Berggruen, Red Horse and Richard Diebenkorn at Cantor Arts Center, Isaac Julien…
L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Samara Golden; Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. When I visitedSamara…
The winners of the first annual prize doled out by Los Angeles independent exhibition space The Mistake Room (this space itself has only been active for just over a year) were announced today
Connie Butler is the chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. With critic Michael Ned Holte, she co-curated the second "Made in L.A." biennial this year. Here, she recalls her top shows (a …
In the macabre comedyBeing John Malkovich, the protagonist discovers a small door in his office that turns out to be a gateway into the mind of actor/filmmaker John Malkovich, and then gives…
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…