Art

Spiritual Technology

 Vanessa German’s new sculptures are artifacts of a cosmic pursuit of being. “What if site-specificity was a type of love?” the artist asks. The answer is in the material. 

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Meka Boyle

Passing in the Night

“Night Market” at Christie’s New York meditates on rituals tied to community and identity with works by 34 intergenerational artists of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.

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Rachel Summer Small

Social Studies

Antwaun Sargent’s new two-part exhibition, “Social Abstraction,” which opens at Gagosian Beverly Hills tomorrow, unearths a deeper social context within Black abstraction.

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K.O. Nnamdie

Images that Speak

For Gordon Parks’ posthumous debut at Pace Los Angeles, Kimberly Drew has culled images from the photographer’s paradigm-shifting archives that capture humanity in the face of a historically discriminatory American South.

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Ella Ross Russell

Something to Behold

A sprawling group show at Louise Alexander Gallery in Porto Cervo, Italy, explores themes of beauty through lush visuals and ambiguous narratives.

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Rachel Summer Small

Group Show Summer

Nothing says summer in New York like a slew of July group shows before galleries shut their doors for August and everyone juts off to somewhere cool or coastal to escape the heat. 

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Meka Boyle

Like a Faucet

Wendy Red Star’s exhibition at Roberts Projects is the artist’s first in Los Angeles in nearly two decades. It’s underscored by a trio of other projects across the globe. 

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Alisha Wexler

The Materials We Carry

Cassandra Mayela Allen’s large-scale textile works reinvigorate material and memory. At Olympia Gallery in New York, the artist considers the fragmented immigrant experience.

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Lila Gamble

From the Ground Up

In upstate New York, a weekend of performance launches Art Omi’s summer season, which features immersive exhibitions by Kiyan Williams and Riley Hooker.

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K.O. Nnamdie

You Are What You Eat

As the natural world rapidly transforms due to anthropogenic impact, Cooking Sections have developed an approach that fuses art and research to imagine sustainable consumption. They call it “climavore.”

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Evan Moffitt

Fever Dance

Alexandra Bachzetsis communicates the frenetic energy of her personal transformation in the New York debut of her exhibition and performance “Notebook.” 

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Lila Gamble

Nothing Set in Stone

Barry X Ball has been breaking rules since leaving behind his Christian fundamentalist upbringing to become a sculptor. When he discovered robotics, he never looked back, he tells artist and thinker Hamzat Incorporated.

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Hamzat Incorporated

Body Map

Amanda Wall transforms her own likeness into poetic landscapes that undulate existential and temporal for her debut solo exhibition in New York at Almine Rech.

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Meka Boyle

Holy Water

Calida Rawles' debut solo museum exhibition in the U.S. celebrates the rich heritage and culture of Miami’s historically Black neighborhood, Overtown.

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Jade Féraud

Before the Storm

Ed Baynard’s evocative, never-before-seen drawings from a summer in Fire Island are on view at James Fuentes in New York.

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Lila Gamble

Bursting at the Seams

After birthing her creations atop 200-plus stages and in non-traditional sites around the world, multidisciplinary artist Pat Oleszko returns to a New York white cube for the first time since the ‘90s.

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Meka Boyle

Beyond Spectatorship

Maria Arena Bell is named chair of the LA28 Cultural Olympiad.

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Family Style

Matchbox Museum

Curator extraordinaire Hans Ulrich Obrist’s favorite object is a miniature world of wonders he’s dubbed the Nanomuseum. At two inches in length and three inches wide, it has followed the Serpentine Galleries' artistic director around the world for the past three decades, carrying the works of artists from Yoko Ono to Chris Marker to Jonas Mekas on any given day.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist

A Pollinator of the Spirit

David Medalla’s posthumous retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles illuminates his pioneering career.

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Lila Gamble

Maurizio Cattelan Makes Space

The Italian artist’s landmark solo show at Gagosian in New York City highlights his knack for infusing humor and irreverence into immersive spaces.

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Rachel Summer Small

Portals to Ourself

Music, mental health, and machines! In Arkansas, recording music artist Jewel's life-long interests culminate in an immersive exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

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Joshua Glass

An Architect, a Minotaur, and a Painter

In Paris, Lily Stockman follows Le Corbusier’s designs to cosmic ends inside the late Swiss-French architect’s Maison La Roche.

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Meka Boyle

Spreading Rumors

In Los Angeles, punk-rock artist Kim Gordon revisits her running Design Office trope as she explores living and work spaces through two video pieces, wherein private life bleeds into public persona.

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Rachel Summer Small

Julie Mehretu’s Fast Car, from Paris to Venice

The masterful abstractionist’s collaboration with BMW coincides with her exhilarating career survey at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

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Osman Can Yerebakan

Mickalene Thomas Brings It Home

The New Jersey-born, New York-based artist knows a thing or two about love. Her new exhibition this spring at the Broad in Los Angeles is an intimate ode to her community, female empowerment, Black liberation, and queer identity that spans the last two decades of her practice.

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Anyu Ching

David Zwirner's LA Chapter

A new exhibition featuring work from every artist on the gallery’s 80-plus roster brings its LA outpost headcount to three.

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Meka Boyle

Radical Honesty

At P.P.O.W in New York, Pat Philips’ dreamlike compositions and eerie juxtapositions meditate on race and class disparities in America.

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Elina Boeva

Moving Mountains 

Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar’s motherland is always on his mind. At Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, landscapes and motifs materialize in intricate embroidery and mosaic tiles.

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Meka Boyle

Walk the Line

Across his six-decade-long career, Bruce Nauman has depicted and pushed the boundaries of the human condition. In Hong Kong, a new major survey features a career-spanning selection of his works at Tai Kwun gallery.

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Anyu Ching

Spring 2024 Art Commissions

Twelve newly created works by 12 intersectional creatives unfold in a mosaic that transcends borders, cultures, and social norms.

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