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The non-visual aspects of art have always been a key to enriching visual experience. But in recent decades has the role of theory drained art of some portion of its substance? More...
Mark Hagen
Mark Hagen's Erector Set-like steel towers are clever, ever funny. "Gradient" paintings relate to the towers except from a viewing distance. More...
Dawoud Bey
The 16th Street Baptists Church bombing of 1963 is the inspiration of Dawoud Bey's series of dignified and powerful portrait diptychs. More...
George Herms
Assemblage godfather George Herms' selection of recent and older work expertly and with humor finds beauty in the decrepit. More...
John Divola
The ruins of an abandoned Malibu residence served as John Divola's canvas in1977/78 series that he took "As Far as I Could Get." More...
Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views. More...
Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views. More...
David Kroll
Few artists have mastered the art of still life painting as thoroughly as David Kroll. New works underscore his strengths though they break little new ground. More...
Is Zumthor's Austerity Right for LACMA?
George Melrod recognizes the vast ambition of Peter Zumthor's proposed architectural of LACMA's original buildings, but much remains problematic or unresolved. More...
Nicholas Sistler
The minuscule, flat, pattern-like abstractions of Nicholas Sistler display a narrative bent in works and how they are installed. More...
Joseph Kohnke
In "Displacements" Joseph Kohnke brings life to inanimate objects. The works turn on when a viewer walks by sensors that trigger motions. More...