Henry Taylor’s B Side: Where Mind Shapes Itself to Canvas
Henry Taylor: B Side at MOCA Grand, Los Angeles (through 30 April 2023) Reviewed by Eve Wood Ages ago when there were LP records and 45s, the B side of a popular single made allowances for...
View ArticleOn Wing With Word Through Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through 25 March 2023) by Rachel Reid Wilkie Los Angeles poet Rachel Reid Wilkie was given the task of walking into Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus — a...
View ArticleIt Begins with a Corpse: New Work from Cormac McCarthy
Reviewed by Michael Gorra The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 383 pp., $20.22 Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 190 pp., $19.99 NYR No regular reader of Cormac McCarthy will be surprised to...
View ArticleAn Interview with Gerard & Kelly
by Amadour . Artist duo Gerard & Kelly personify the collaborative nature of art making. Their exhibition, Panorama, at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, displays a dynamic video with three...
View ArticleStalking the Atomic City
Reviewed by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh translated by Hanna Leliv and Reilly Costigan-Humes Astra House, 160pp., $13.59 HR The disaster at the nuclear power plant...
View ArticleThe Best Jazz Guitar is Jeff Parker’s Jazz Guitar
Best Jazz Record of 2022 Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy Eremite Records Reviewed by Henry Cherry Four selections of sets from Jeff Parker’s Monday evening live performances with his quartet are...
View ArticleFreedom and the Postwar Avant-Garde
Reviewed by Erik Hmiel The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 880pp., $18.89 When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I played in punk-rock...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Artist Jim Shaw
Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills (12 January – 25 February 2023) by Amadour Artist Jim Shaw captures the tantalizing spectacle of Hollywood in a new series of paintings...
View ArticleDystopia Borne Alive in No Land in Sight
Reviewed by Jason Tandon No Land in Sight by Charles Simic Knopf, 96pp., $23.95 HR Charles Simic is not just one of the most celebrated and honored poets of the last fifty years; now in his eighties,...
View ArticleLuminosities Beyond the Eye in Yehonatan Koenig’s Ink on Paper
at The BAG, Los Angeles (through 19 February) Reviewed by Eve Wood Yehonatan Koenig’s luminous ink drawings are studies in both absence and presence, suspension and saturation, death and rebirth. The...
View ArticleAn Interview with Pae White
Slow Winter Sun, at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (through 25 February 2023) by Amadour Artist Pae White captivates her audience with a solo exhibition, Slow Winter Sun, at Jessica Silverman...
View ArticleWith a Fierceness Greater Than the Beast She Births: A Review of Chouette
Reviewed by Jennifer Kurdyla Chouette by Claire Oshetsky Ecco Press, 256pp., $13.29 HR If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette,...
View ArticleAmerican Agri-Giants Are Swallowing Us Whole
Reviewed by Ian Frazier Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It by Tom Philpott Bloomsbury, 246 pp., $28.00; $17.00 (paper) The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North...
View ArticleSusan Kaprov: Conversations on Art, Technology and The Space Age
by Jill Conner In some respects Susan Kaprov’s art has remained elusive, until now. Her experimental photomontages are included in the permanent collections of museums such as the Museum of...
View ArticleMartin Puryear and the Volumes Voiced From Within
at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (through 8 April 2023) Reviewed by Lorraine Heitzman In the midst of the frenzy of Frieze week, the quiet of Martin Puryear’s show at Matthew Marks Gallery was...
View ArticleGlenn Hardy’s Who Am I If I Don’t Represent?
at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (through 11 February 2023) Reviewed by Eve Wood Glenn Hardy’s second solo exhibition, aptly title Who Am I If I Don’t Represent? — at Charlie James Gallery in LA’s...
View ArticleIbrahim El-Salahi Pain Relief Drawings
at The Drawing Center, NYC (through 15 January) Reviewed by Robyn Creswell Pain Relief Drawings by Ibrahim El-Salahi Contributors: Laura Hoptman, Hassan Musa Exhibition Catalogue, 157pp, $35.00 NYR The...
View ArticleMeditations on the Mystical Sublime: Kourosh Beigpour’s Mandal
at Advocartsy, Los Angeles (through 4 February 2023) Reviewed by Christopher Ian Lutz The human mind seeks connectivity. The writing of letters and numbers, and the drawing of lines in a painting, are...
View ArticleThe Julian Lennon Interview
by Amadour In this conversation, I speak to Julian Lennon from his home in Monaco about his recent exhibition, ATMOSPHERIA, at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. These works capture magnificent...
View ArticleThe Psyche of Migration in Igor Posner’s Cargó
Reviewed by Justin Herfst In the opening sequence of Igor Posner’s Cargó, two images are stacked on top of each other. In the top image is a green thicket, and in the bottom a black and white image of...
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