Thomas Joshua Cooper has feverishly circumnavigated the globe in an effort to chart the Atlantic basin. His recent photos of the California coast, subject to wildfires and drilling, feel all the more poignant.
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Learn More About Philip Guston’s Only Surviving Mural in California
A chance to visit the mural and listen to a discussion about this important but often overlooked moment in Guston’s career.
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Peeling Back the Layers of Alina Szapocznikow’s Bodily Sculptures
As a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth demonstrates, part of Szapocznikow’s extraordinary accomplishment as an artist was her ability to represent what many after World War II felt was unrepresentable.
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The Quiet Introspection of Amy Sherald’s New Portraits
For her Hauser & Wirth debut, Sherald restructures historical notions of blackness through the use of grisaille.
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Charles Gaines Designs an Art Lecture Series That’s Open to the Public
Covering aesthetics and critical theory in art, the talks offer the public a chance to hear the artist discuss topics that are normally reserved for his classes at the California Institute of the Arts.
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An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel
An odd pairing of drawings by Eva Hesse and sculptures by John Chamberlain sets up unintended comparisons between two artists who otherwise seem to share only an ingrained rebelliousness.
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Where the Billionaire Buyers Are
In BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, Michael Shnayerson paints a vivid portrait of the dizzying ascent of the contemporary art market and the powerful succession of dealers responsible for its rise.
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David Hammons Returns to LA With Wicked Tricks and Subtle Jabs
Imagining his first impression of the city he once called home, I suspect Hammons would have said: “You’ve let yourself go.” Conversely, he could have easily said, “I see you haven’t changed.”
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Piero Manzoni and the Reinvention of Art
Manzoni’s work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
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Lorna Simpson Searches for Meaning in the Arctic Ice
Darkening, an exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s glacial paintings, submerges us in an icy desert largely devoid of language and far from human habitation.
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After CalArts Announces Tuition Hike, Students Organize in Protest
On Tuesday morning, CalArts students organized outside of Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, where the Board of Trustees voted on the tuition for the next academic year, which will total $50,850.
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Cal State LA Students Embark on Making Documentaries with Million Dollar Grant from Hauser & Wirth
This semester, students are making movies on LA art organizations that are incorporating social work. The grant will provide new equipment and funds to hire guest artists as mentors.