Heavy Bag
Vincent Szarek’s latest work, Heavy Bag (2012), is a symbolic talisman evoking an ostentatious excitement that combines a deep love…
Spotlight
Dark and Deadpan
Pop Art was brilliant in its ability to mirror society — to reflect not only the shiny, colorful plasticity of…
Allan Sekula
Allan Sekula was long devoted to contemplating the open sea. Turbulent and wild, water can buoy a new global political…
NYC 1993: Experimental
Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Some exhibitions conjure a mental soundtrack. The New Museum’s survey of art made twenty years ago, “NYC 1993,” includes one…
Illuminations
The British-born, New York–based artist and White Columns director Matthew Higgs has come to Los Angeles with an enlightening new…
Paul McCarthy
LA artist Paul McCarthy took over Manhattan this summer with three simultaneous exhibitions traversing the island. Though separate, each project…
Chris Burden
It’s time to think about Chris Burden. That’s right, the artist who in the ’70s garnered attention for such performances…
Robert Heinecken
Robert Heinecken liked to describe himself not as an artist or a photographer but as a “paraphotographer.” He explained that…
Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Much has already been written and said about the exhibition “Speculations on Anonymous Materials,” which opened in the fall at…
Ettore Spalletti
In May of 2014 I traveled to Naples, Rome and Turin with the purpose of visiting Ettore Spalletti’s three-part retrospective…
Richard Hamilton
The first rooms at the Tate Modern demonstrate Hamilton’s intellectual curiosity and fascination with mass and commodity culture, as represented…
Eye Contact
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 296 May-June 2014 In a recent interview Jordan Wolfson traced a cycle of…