Art Review
The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics
An exhibition showcases works by Sky Hopinka, vanessa german, April Bey, and others that have connections to spiritual practices and rituals.
Claudia Ross
Claudia Ross lives in Los Angeles. Her writing can be found in The Paris Review, Frieze, ArtReview, and elsewhere.
Book Review
In “Discipline,” Larissa Pham Explores Predatory Art-World Mentorship
The art critic and former painter reinvents the genre’s well-trod territory in her debut novel, which makes heartbreakingly acute the consequences of teacher-student relationships.
Art Review
Monuments Collapses American History on Itself
An exhibition in Los Angeles pairing decommissioned public Confederate statues with contemporary art captures America’s shifting political terrain.
Art Review
Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
Art Review
Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
The artist mines archives of conquest and imperialism in her native Turkey to produce multifaceted displays that entangle violent histories with personal narratives.
Art Review
An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art
Burn Me! at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains — in the last six months and far earlier.
Art Review
The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
Art Review
The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
Art Review
Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.
Art Review
The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show
Parts I and II of the exhibition demonstrate a vibrant spectrum of aesthetic inquiry — which, like LA’s art scene, resists easy categorization.
Art Review
François Pain’s Art as Salvation
The artist’s avant-garde video works draw from his time working at an experimental psychiatric hospital in the 1960s–70s.
Art Review
Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer
His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at foundational interactions between viewers, art objects, and art institutions.