Lisa / Fernandez
Concurrent exhibitions by the late Argentine Esteban Lisa and the far younger Venezuelan Magdalena Fernandez are a fortuitous pairing. More...
James Smolleck
James Smolleck's installation "Neophyte Doublestare into the Eight Dimension" is a deep and immersive draught of immersive fantasy. More...
Performing for Camera
The aesthetics of danger and risk are very much on display in the group show "Performing for the Camera," and the results are exhilarating. More...
Alwyn O'Brien
Porcelain "vessels" of delicate complexity by Alwyn O'Brien stand apart and outshine a number of current ceramic shows. More...
Alina Szapocznikow
Holocaust survivor Alina Szapocznikow's sensuous sculptural forms and materials are both beautiful and startling. More...
Surrealism's Myths
LACMA's current "In Wonderland" exhibition provoked Betty Ann Brown to reflect on some prevailing misconceptions of Surrealism's history. More...
Guirguis / Hagler
Sherin Guirguis and Joshua Hagler is a pairing of distinctive sensibilities who both deal with the connection between past and present. More...
Frederick Hammersley
Frederick Hammersley's large geometric abstractions are balanced with small organic compositions go far beyond mere formalism. More...
''The Art of Mono-ha''
"The Art of Mono-ha" or "school of things" expressed Japanese artists' response to 1960s era minimalism, process art and earth art. More...
Frank Lloyd Wright
This retrospective makes a mostly successful effort to link architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright to present day developments. More...
Conner and Herms
Bruce Conner's "action photos" of the punk scene in San Francisco are paired with a small group of George Herms assemblages. More...
"Clay's Tectonic Shift"
Peter Voulkos first brought truth to materials and abstraction to clay, then John Mason and Kenneth Price expanded on his ideas. More...
The Boneyard Project
The Boneyard is a special place of fantasy and intrigue in Tucson--a sought-after destination for tourists from around the world. "The Boneyard" is the unofficial name for the Aerospace More...
A Half Century of SECA Award Winners
The Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was formally organized in 1961 by a group of art-invested donors and museum More...
''Breaking in Two''
"Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood" takes a hard look at a theme too often reduced by sentimentality. More...
Paul Gauguin
Former stockbroker Paul Gauguin abandoned his family for art and Polynesia in search of an idealized exotic. We learn here what he actually found. More...
''Interlopers''
"Interlopers" posits the lasting power of great draughtsmanship as an art form, while also being far-reaching in its scope. More...
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko's trajectory from figuration through Surrealist experimentation and finally into AbEx maturity is followed More...
Richard Diebenkorn
In 1966 Richard Diebenkorn relocated to Santa Monica's Ocean Park district and devoted himself to the now legendary "Ocean Park" paintings. More...
''Time-Lapse''
"Time-Lapse" starts small by opening big, with Mary Temple's installation "Currency," and ends with the individualized mark of our transient lives. More...
