Aram Moshayedi
Women
Neil Doshi and Scott Barry discuss “Connections”
February 2013
Working under the moniker Women, designers Neil Doshi and Scott Barry are in the first phase of a five-year design initiative that sets out to inhabit a different location and set of working conditions each year. Currently underway in Yucca… READ ON
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Abraham Cruzvillegas
February 2013
“How to generate a living sculpture nowadays?” Abraham Cruzvillegas asked in a notebook and online video that complemented his street-bound activities for Documenta 13. What about a sculpture without fixed form or shape? A definitely … READ ON
IN PRINT February 2013 [TOC]
“No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar”
Blum & Poe
August 2012
Exploring intersections of art and crime, this extensive exhibition relays a set of sordid tales that underscore the fact that the activities of art are hardly ever devoid of ulterior motives. Cocurated by artists Julian Hoeber and Alix … READ ON
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Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho talks about her show at the MoCA Pacific Design Center
June 2012
“TEENY TINY WOMAN” is the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles by Amanda Ross-Ho. On view at the MoCA Pacific Design Center from June 23 to September 23, this show finds Ross-Ho characteristically spanning the disciplines of … READ ON
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Edgardo Aragón
The Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex
May 2012
Despite art criticism’s rampant overuse of words such as traffic (or interrogate or investigate) to describe the seemingly nefarious “activities” of works, there is no better term to describe Edgardo Aragón’s recent videos that deal… READ ON
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OPENINGS: CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU
January 2012
JUST SHORT of its fourth anniversary as part of the eurozone, the Republic of Cyprus announced in the middle of last year that it was on the verge of becoming the next member state to seek a bailout from the European Union. At the time of my… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2012 [TOC]
Piero Golia
July 2011
With the location yet to be determined, Piero Golia announced in March of this year that it was time for his first show in Los Angeles. “I think [it] should be on June 23 . . . it is going to be paintings and sculptures,” he posted to … READ ON
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Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger talks about her latest exhibition
May 2011
Barbara Kruger’s latest solo exhibition is on view at L&M Arts, Los Angeles until July 9. Filling the interior and exterior of the gallery, the show includes recent installations, projections, and multichannel videos by the inimitable New… READ ON
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William E. Jones
William E. Jones talks about his recent films
January 2011
William E. Jones is one of Los Angeles’s leading independent filmmakers; his films often circulate in the context of museum and gallery exhibitions. On February 2–5, the Österreichisches Filmmuseum in Vienna will host the first retrospective… READ ON
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Jeff Koons’s Bowl With Eggs on the 210 Freeway, New Atlantis Enterprises, Paul McCarthy
November 2010
Few exhibitions this year rivaled the peculiar sight of Jeff Koons’s Bowl With Eggs, 2009, abandoned on the 210 freeway, moments after it had been unhitched from the truck responsible for its safe delivery from Carlson & Co. to the artist’s… READ ON