Julian Wasser: Duchamp in Pasadena Redux
The first American museum retrospective of Marcel Duchamp occurred not in New York but Pasadena in 2963. Photographer Juilian Wasser was there to document it, producing some of the most iconic images of the L.A. art scene of the period. More...
Jackson Pollock
"Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is the most significant and art historically important show at this museum in decades. More...
Sandow Birk
Islam's sacred text and how it reverberates in modern America is the subject of Sandow Birk's "American Qur'an", an earnest and sometimes poignant interpretation that was nine years in the making. More...
Jefferson Pinder
Jefferson Pinder's performance-based works resonate in their reversal of the deeply racist black-face cabaret of a century ago. Here black performers lip-sync to the music of white rock bands who have made traditionally black musical idioms palatable to the white audience. More...
Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism. More...
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas
The title of Rodrigo Lara Zendejas' exhibition, "Deportable Aliens," references the term used to describe forcibly repatriated immigrants during the Hoover administration. Porcelain thumbs bearing facial features are stacked on a shelf as if stowed away. More...
Superstructure
If we want a better country, a better world, and a better art world, how do we make art with human values in a culture glamorizing vapidity and excess? DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the role of art has evolved. More...
Chaco Terada
Traditional Japanese calligraphy and silkscreened nature photography meet in Chaco Terada's rippling compositions. More...
New Experiments in Art and Technology
The nine artists of "NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Techology" salutes and updates the original "Experiments in Art and Technology" program of the 1960s. Hardly devoid of emotion, this compilation is soulful and playful. More...
Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, along with views of the urban environment in his "River" and "Grid" series. More...
“Frida Kahlo: Her Photos”
An extensive selection of archival photographs provide an irresistibly personal glimpse into the life of the iconic Frida Kahlo. More...
“Between Two Worlds”
"Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience" presents the personal experience and perspective of more than 20 artists who have gone through this inherently grueling experience. More...
Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin's invented mythological figures, painted and in cut steel, reference Art Nouveau, psychedelia, Milton Glaser and the Kabbalah. More...
New Year's Resolve
Bill Lasarow has long regarded art's essential element as one's authenticity. But now our domestic politics have turned the content of that great term on its head. More...
Ron English
Ron English revels in masking up symbols and striking colors that attract and repel. The current "Neo-Nature" series of fanciful animals casts our own progress as not necessarily so great. More...
Jessica Halonen
Prussian blue and the idea of transition inform Jessica Halonen's paintings that respond to the brief times of sunrise and sunset. More...
Ben Huff
"The Last Road North" is photographer Ben Huff's paean to Alaska's Dalton Highway, an uncannily spartan, 414-mile stretch of arboreal forest and tundra between Fairbanks and Deadhorse, within the Arctic Circle. More...
Dirk De Bruycker
Flowingly liquid color fields by Dirk De Bruycker bloom out towards you and makes their impact deceptively quickly. More...
Did AIDS Change Art?
"Art AIDS America" is hardly the first or last exhibition about AIDS, but it is expansive, well curated and researched, and may be seen and thought about in a rich variety of ways. More...
“The Mapmaker’s Dream”
A selection of five artists -- Maurizio Anzeri, Marius Bercea, Linda Conner, Chris McCaw and Pae White -- take diverse approaches to how we map our surroundings. More...
