Claudia Ross lives in Los Angeles. Her writing can be found in The Paris Review, Frieze, ArtReview, and elsewhere.
Book Review
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
An exhibition in Los Angeles pairing decommissioned public Confederate statues with contemporary art captures America’s shifting political terrain.
Art Review
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
Art Review
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
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
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
Art Review
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
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
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
The artist’s avant-garde video works draw from his time working at an experimental psychiatric hospital in the 1960s–70s.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.