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January 2025
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"The Best Art In The World"
January 2025
Whitehot Los Angeles, California
Lita Barrie
News: Wind and Fire Devastate L.A.’s Art Community: Loss of Homes, Studios, and CollectionsIsabelle Albuquerque X Robert Therrien on View in the late Therrien’s Art Space in Downtown LA is a Powerful Dialogue Between Intergenerational Artists
Ann Weber’s Witty Life-Size Cardboard Sculptures Play with Disequilibrium in Evocative Balancing Acts
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg’s Ancient Wisdom For A Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles for Getty’s PST Art & Science Collide
Ed Ruscha’s Retrospective at LACMA - viewed from the Perspective of Los Angelenos who Inhabit the City of Signs he Immortalized
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills Explores a Vital Missing Chapter of Art History
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Carlota Gamboa
Austen Brantley’s Anachronistic FutureLaurie Victor Kay: Visual Dialogue
Seth Howe: Symbols of Sight
Saxon Brice's Diametric of Myth and Modernity
The Details in Metaphor: A Conversation with Natale Adgnot at Sweet Lorraine Gallery NYC
Sienna Martz’s Ethical Life-Practice
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Eric Minh Swenson
Video: Art Dealer Craig Krull | Celebrating A Life In The ArtsVideo: Mayme Kratz | Sleeping In The Forest | Phoenix, Arizona
Video: Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature | Broad Museum Los Angeles
Ohana Festival Rocks the Non-Profits
Luminex 3.0 Downtown Los Angeles Survey
Coachella Has Some Interesting Art
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Peter Frank
Luminaries of Light: Pioneers of the California Light & Space Movement at Honarkar FoundationNate Lowman: Parking / At Home: Alice Neel and the Queer World / George Morrison
On the Edge: Los Angeles Art from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection
Daniel Licht: Continuous Life at Vardan Gallery
Ray Johnson the Reclusive Genius Artist at Blum Gallery in Los Angeles
Seta Injeyan: Cosmifluence
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Gary Brewer
Llyn Foulkes: Outrage, Heartache and Humor at A Hug From the Art WorldTomory Dodge: Decisive Ambiguity
Giorgio Morandi: The Poetics of Space
David Lloyd: Dreaming with Androids of Electric Sheep
Tony Marsh: On Growth and Form
Clyfford Still: Dialogue and Defiance: Clyfford Still and the Abstract Expressionists
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Shana Nys Dambrot
vanessa german | Gray Center Fellowship Exhibition | Logan Center for the Arts at the University of ChicagoBLINK, Twice Public art gets a Cincinnati Glow Up
Molly Segal: To the Bone
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There (NO Gallery, Los Angeles)
Encounters With Art in the Context of Puerto Vallarta
In Living Coral: The Pantone Pantry’s Colorific Savannah Adventure
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Victor Sledge
Anna van den Hoevel: The Natural Structures of ConnectionJMikal Davis: Patchworks & Boundaries
Patrick John Stuver: Topographical Forms
Taylor Smith: Logging Fractured Memory
m OTHER: Blakelee Pieroni's Exploration of Stepmotherhood
Preston Douglas: Spirituality in Practice
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Lawrence Gipe
Frank Ryan's Lived Perspective at Track 16Total Control Over Mind and Body: Seven Artists Grapple with Bob Flanagan's Legacy
Lawrence Halprin's Drawings Provide a New Lens onto his Life and Work
Constance Mallinson: Unmade at Jason Vass Gallery
Don Porcella's "Everything Must Go" at Noysky Projects
Lyle Zimskind
Alex Becerra: Descarga Heavy at Various Small Fires, Los AngelesÁngeles Agrela: Fauna at Anat Ebgi, East Hollywood
Gajin Fujita: Warriors, Ghosts and Ancient Gods of the Pacific
Jim Ovelmen: Western Skies
Rashid Johnson at David Kordansky Gallery
Edwin Ushiro: Gathering Whispers
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Sandra Vista
Julian Schnabel: For Esmé – with Love and Squalor at PACE GalleryJune Wayne Paintings, Prints, and Tapestries, Pasadena Museum of California Art
July 2009, Mary Anna Pomonis @ Torrance Art Museum
June 2009, Alexis Smith @ Margo Leavin Gallery
March 2009, Doni Silver Simons @ The Sherry Frumkin Gallery
February 2009, Lisa Adams @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
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Simone Kussatz
Interview with Maxime DuveauCarolee Schneemann at Michele Didier Gallery, Paris
April 2012: In Conversation with Matthias Merkel Hess
February 2012: Interview with Lita Albuquerque
Bill Radawec at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art
August 2011, Julia Schwartz at Bleicher Gallery La Brea
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Megan Reed
Casey Coates Danson’s Images of the City of Angels in Sharp ReliefMicajah Bienvenu: Sculpture as the Divine Connection to Nature
Marcel Katz: Bringing Art To The People
Snapshots Behind the Fantasy: David Drebin’s Illuminative Photography
Courage to Make a Mark: Donna Isham’s Bold Painterly Gestures
Artist as Anthropologist: John Peralta’s Poetic Dissection of Everyday Objects
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A. Moret
April 2011, If These Walls Could Talk - A ConversationFebruary 2011, Davis & Davis @ L2Kontemporary
February, 2011: Mike Kelley @ Gagosian
January 2011, My Barbarian @ The Hammer Museum
December 2010, Amanda Ross-Ho @ Cherry and Martin
January 2010, Aram Jibilian @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery
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Megan Abrahams
Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman's "Girls, Girls, Girls" Evoke Dreams and NightmaresChristine Weir: Qualia at Launch LA
Gronk’s Theatre of Paint Craft & Folk Art Museum
Dumpster Diving with Dad on Galactic Plains: Esther Pearl Watson at Gregorio Escalante Gallery
Unexpected twists, hurdles and epiphanies of Quinton Bemiller
Channing Hansen Marc Selwyn Fine Art
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Franceasca Seiden
Victor Wilde: How the Brooklyn Kid became Downtown LA’s Bohemian PrinceAn Interview with Punk Rock Artist Billy Morrison
The Alchemist of Light: An Interview with Phillip K. Smith
Camille Rose Garcia's Phantasmacabre Celebrates a World of Pure Imagination
Things are just things...or are they? Nathan Mabry at Cherry and Martin, L.A.
A Thousand Miles An Hour: An Interview with Kevin Cooley
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Eve Wood
When Art and Ideas MergeOctober 2013: Michael Arata @ Garboushian Gallery
March 2013: Ed Templeton @ Roberts and Tilton
February 2013: Travis Collinson: Paintings and Drawings @ Maloney Fine Art, Culver City
November 2012: Dimitri Kozyrev @ Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
July 2012, Op-Ed: Unmade In LA
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Angel Baker
New Villager: Temporary Culture at Human Resources, LAFebruary 2008, Closing Reception for Downright @ Pink Elephant Projects Gallery, November 9, 2007
Stina Persson, Immacolata and her Friends, at Gallery Hanah
May 2007, WM issue #3: Jiri Kolar and Joseph Cornell @ Pavel Zoubok Gallery
March 07/ WM issue #1: Lisa Candela, Curator By Proxy
Alexx Shaw for WM LA
December 2009, Debbie Han @ LA ContemporaryMarch 2009, Interview with Michael Brunswick
March 2009, Dan Graham Retrospective @ MOCA
January 2009, Three Quick Reviews
October 2008, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 - 2008 @ LACMA
October 2008, The Dialogic Connection: a Freelance Curatorial Adventure
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Jesi Khadivi in LA
May 2009, Interview with Sherry WongJanuary 2009, Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective MOCA
November 2008, Lari Pittman @ Gladstone Gallery
November 2008, Camera Ephemera: Endangered Media Objects and Manufacturing the Art Object @ Found Gallery
October, 2008, John Lautner: Between Heaven and Earth @ Hammer Museum
July 2008, Allan Kaprow: Art as Life
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