Illuminations
The British-born, New York–based artist and White Columns director Matthew Higgs has come to Los Angeles with an enlightening new…
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Paul McCarthy
LA artist Paul McCarthy took over Manhattan this summer with three simultaneous exhibitions traversing the island. Though separate, each project…
Maureen Paley
Donatien Grau: You are a very specific character, being a gallerist, having trained as an artist, and also being a part-time…
Lasting Pictures
“Pictures,” the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1977 group exhibition at Artists Space in New York, is outwardly unremarkable, even…
Collective Acts
in the Aftermath
Legendary postwar artists in Japan have seen a recent resurgence of attention. Last year, the exhibition “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New…
Memo for the Music
As a child, one of my toys was a tape recorder. After my father had bought and grown tired of…
Monir is Always the Answer
Maurizio Bortolotti: I’d like to start from your position as an artist and woman in Iran. You have been through many…
Ancestral Figures Revisited
Rajesh Punj: Your performative work seems to directly engage the viewer and draw them out of their comfort zone. Are…
A Restless Subject
The room was found empty, without a stick of furniture. The pictures on the walls had been taken down, leaving…
Pulsing from the Bottom Up
Gianni Jetzer: You got involved with performance in the early ’70s when it was low on the totem pole of…
The Future is an Empty Space
Attempting a concise survey of the work of David Maljković seems an elusive goal. Within Maljković ’s output over the last…
An Intimately, Duplicitously Reflexive Experience
Klaus Biesenbach: What is your working process? Do you start with text and then the image comes? Or do you have…
Chris Burden
It’s time to think about Chris Burden. That’s right, the artist who in the ’70s garnered attention for such performances…
Remembering Agnes Varda • Surprising Impressions
Patrick Steffen: I’ve wanted to organize this conversation since 2011, when Rita Gonzalez curated the show “Asco: Elite of the…
Fetish Eyeballs
Amy Yao’s little beauties, shiny, glassy, delicate life-size fetishes, seem to play on our lost innocence. They are remnants of…
Five Questions about Los Angeles
1. After James Ellroy and Bret Easton Ellis, who do you think should write a contemporary novel on La La Land?…