“Transported"
The four artists comprising "Transported" each travel widely to produce work that takes us to both the exotic and the local. More...
Ceramics at a Breakthrough Art Fair
The recent Seattle Art Fair was the best ever in this city in terms of both quality and attendance. Matthew Kangas sorts through the vein of ceramics, which represented a whole new generation of talent drawn to the medium. More...
“Decorative Arts and Orientalism”
Don't overlook this small show of "Decorative Arts and Orientalism," a blend of wonderful craftsmanship and the pollination of style. More...
Ken Price
Ken Price is and will remain best known for his sculpture, but here we get him as a draftsman. These quirky and colorful drawings offer context for the more familiar sculpture, but turn out stand up on their own. More...
Katherine Joseph
Working for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Katherine Joseph captured the dignity of work during the golden age of unionized labor. More...
Peter Krasnow
This retrospective pegs Peter Krasnow a "Maverick Modernist," suggesting that he didn't necessarily stick with the program. More...
“Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia”
"Generation: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia” is a large multimedia group show that depicts the cultural clash between new and old in an Arab context. It also demonstrates that young Arab artists are well versed in the idioms of international contemporary art. More...
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Taos was established as an arts magnet by Mabel Dodge Luhan more than any single person, as this biographical show documents. More...
Lawrence Calcagno and Louis Catusco
Lawrence Calcagno and Louis Catusco were both modernist abstract painters who spent time in Taos. While Calcagno was extremely outgoing and avid traveler, Catusco preferred to stay put and lived an ascetic lifestyle akin to Agnes Martin. More...
“Piston Head II”
Custom made cars are not only a match for Los Angeles, "Piston Head II" shows they are fodder for art. Each here tells their own story ranging from Sterling Ruby's dark and ominous "Bus" to Kenny Sharf's flower and fish covered "Daisymobile." More...
Alan Corkery Hahn
Paperback book pages are elevated by Alan Corkery Hahn with something as insubstantial as thread--and a lot of interesting ideas. More...
Victor Maldonado
Victor Maldonado addresses the racial stereotyping he has experienced by mining the symbol of the Mexican masked wrestler. More...
“What Birds Can See”
James Collins, Rachel de Joode and Alwin Lay establish a palpable sense of remove between the viewer and the artists’ subject matters. More...
Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte turns rooms into stage sets that bombard the viewer with visual and sonic elements. "A Season in He’ll" is inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poem "A Season in Hell" together with familiar pop cultural sources. More...
Photographic Matrices
In three recent photography exhibitions, artists and curators have arranged individual portraits in grid formations that bring to mind the photographic matrices common to social networking sites. In each, the works create a unique portrait of a community. More...
Angel Cabrales
In "Delineation" Angel Cabrales provocatively joins images of gun violence to objects of childhood innocence. More...
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi was both highly regarded (more in Paris than at home) and vilified during his lifetime but obscured in the century following his death. His central theme of solitude rendered in a quietly restrained palette rejects the theatricality and bombast of many of his modernist peers. More...
Slouching Towards a More Perfect Democracy
In a rare departure from art commentary, DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the reality TV influenced Presidential election shapes up coming out of the two major party conventions. Whatever the outcome, he continues to feel the Bern. More...
“Sub Rosa: Behind the Scenes at the Museum”
Selected works from the Sedgwick Collection are turned around, backsides facing the viewer. This is not to hide but rather to reveal, the various markings, stamps and tags telling a story almost never told about how museums display and care for important works of art. More...
Abigail Goldman
The miniature dioramas of Abigail Goldman reflect her background as a crime reporter. The forensic nastiness depicted in one scene after another calls to mind the cinematic models of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch with a welcome element of preposterousness. More...
