Artists of Coenties Slip
For a decade during the 1950s, a tiny slice of lower Manhattan sheltered artists who separated from prevailing artistic orthodoxy. More...
Erik Olson
The colorful paintings of Erik Olson ooze painterly brushwork that form into portraits that at first are barely recognizable as such. More...
The Swimming Pool as a Springboard
It being summer and his return to Los Angeles being recent, two artists that prominently feature SoCal's most notorious trope, the swimming pool, immediately drew David S. Rubin's attention. More...
Takashi Murakami
“Superflat" anime-inspired imagery is what Takashi Murakami is most closely identified with. But this survey, "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," demonstrates his rich fusion of high and low culture and the new and the ancient. More...
“2017 California-Pacific Triennial”
The 25 artists included in the "2017 California-Pacific Triennial" were selected in part for their response to the notion of a permanent built environment and their personal connections to architecture. More...
Betye Saar
The core of Betye Saar's "Keepin' It Clean" is a series of washboard assemblages that delight the eye while conveying historical pain. More...
Sono Osato
In "Submergence" Sono Osato's flat layers of transparent space in which are suspended silhouettes--but of what? More...
The Eclipse is Coming
The August 21st full solar eclipse crosses the U.S., offering a unique visual experience to millions in approximately two minute intervals. Bill Lasarow takes a look at how that visualization has impacted global culture over millennia. More...
Candida Alvarez
Candida Alvarez' artistic trajectory has been anything but linear, her use of abstract and symbolic elements coming and going. More...
Rafael Soriano
A career survey traces Cuban expatriate Rafael Soriano's transition from bright but stark geometric abstraction to an organic and luminous style full of mystery and spiritual energy. More...
Tom and James Franco
Assemblagist Tom Franco and his brother, actor James, present a series of sewer pipe pillars altered by prodigious carving and painting. More...
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken's immersive video installations, as seen here, consistently expand expressive possibilities of the media. The well-conceived installation serves to compound its immersive quality using multiple screens. More...
“Bold Disobedience”
"Bold Disobedience" pairs practicing artists with under voting age Chicago high-schoolers, and the combination is marked by bluntness and a sense of urgency that takes us well beyond superficial rhetoric. More...
“Tomorrow is Another Day”
Mark Bradford's Venice Biennale installation covers multiple rooms in an impassioned aesthetic wail that laments a disgraced nation. More...
