Without Reservation
When the arts collective Postcommodity was invited by Arizona State University Art Museum to participate in the exhibition 'Defining Sustainability' last fall, one aspect of the project seemed especially noteworthy. Tasked with representing Native American artists More...
The Green Museum
The museum's featured artists exemplify not only the organizational mission, but also the work ethic of the sometimes difficult to categorize 'eco-artist' whose practice draws from socially-responsible activism and various sciences, often across a wide and unruly range of artistic practices. Those featured here are just a few selected from the many recognized by Green Museum More...
Donald Judd
Donald Judd is currently the subject of an exhibition of prints, a presentation of sculptural works, and a scholarly conference. More...
Creating the CA+E
The objectives of the Center are to promote the creation, study, and collection of work addressing art and environment, on a very broad scale. 'We define the environment,' explains Fox, 'as natural, built, and virtual.' To promote the creation of work, the Center just announced More...
'Eden is Burning'
If scary is sublime, we have clearly entered a rather sublime century. With natural cataclysms from tsunamis to Katrina reminding us ever More...
University Galleries- Part I
Despite the variations in available resources at university galleries, one constant is an ambitious vision of possibility, perpetuated by the multi-tasking curator/directors of these spaces. Chiefly the role of director encompasses every aspect of the venue, and regularly combines art scholarship with administrative management abilities and marketing skills. As a result of these expansive More...
Mark Bradford
The sign reads 'The Greatest Artist in the World' in bright, fluorescent colors. It's sitting on a number of similar, handmade signs hawking 'Cash for Homes,' 'Funerals for Less' and 'Sober Living.' They're all neatly stacked and placed in a cubby in the back of Mark Bradford's tidy studio More...
MOCA Tabs Jeffrey Deitch
Naming of successor to interim Director Charles Young, a prominent New York gallery owner, stuns the art world. More...
'MOCA's First Thirty Years'
The sprawling two-part exhibition of MOCA's permanent collection is notable for the sheer diversity of work it incorporates into one show. More...
University Galleries-Part II
If universities and art schools play a crucial role in the ecosystem of the art world, the Los Angeles art world, in particular, seems rooted in its educational infrastructure. More...
Book Art Unbound
Artist's book, book art, art book, artist book, book arts, as similar as all these terms seem, the worlds they span can vary significantly, as can their definitions. Many such terms are used synonymously, or the same term may be used to refer to a very different object, concept, or practice. The setting of boundaries and definitions, wading through the grey areas, is highly More...
'Tools'
'Tools' generously displays functional and non-functional material culture. It conveys a nostalgic perspective on the history of tools paired with a selection of visual artists who are beguiled by that history. More...
'Road To Freedom'
'The Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968: offers us a look back at the events and personalities who put body and mind on the line to work toward one of thte 20th century's greatest goods - racial equality. More...
The Black Album
Printmaking and comics-both have suffered the scorn of artists and the public alike. There was a time when artists, curators and collectors alike looked at prints as the province of 'dull, pipe-smoking, corduroy, deep type artisans,' as artist Larry Rivers once described it. More...
Embracing Denver
Curator Christoph Heinrich takes on the difficult spaces inside the DAM's Libeskind Building with 'Embrace!'
It was back in the fall of 2006 that the Denver Art Museum rolled out its outlandish freestanding addition which is located directly across the street from the museum's Gio Ponti-designed main building. The addition, dubbed the Frederic C. Hamilton Building, was designed by visionary More...
Infinite Possibilities
After 44 years, Gemini G.E.L. keeps pressing forward its legacy.
Since 1966, Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) has opened the doors of its Melrose Avenue workshop, in Los Angeles, to some of the most influential artists of this century. Lichtenstein, Johns, and Rauschenberg (or Roy, Jasper, and Bob, as Gemini folks refer to the artists while fondly recalling anecdotes of working together) have made numerous editions with the studio, as have Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and more recently, Vija Celmins, Ann Hamilton, and Julie Mehretu. More...
DOWN TO EARTH: LAND/ART in New Mexico
Three years in the making, LAND/ART represents a collaboration between New Mexico art organizations and institutions exploring the relationship between man, nature, art and community, breaking new ground and moving beyond previous assumptions and traditions of 'environmental' art.
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Richard Ehrlich
In concurrent exhibitions, Ehrlich's series of Holocaust photographs are unusual because they recall the persistence of human order and human horror in equal parts. And a series of new works record the sliced view of internal human anatomy made possible by cutting edge MRI and CAT scan technology. More...
