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'Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists' at Hammer Museum

'Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists' at Hammer Museum

Christopher Bedford

Though Los Angeles is now considered a center for artistic production in the United States...

Published 23.08.07

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Danielle Adair Correll

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Danielle Adair Correll

In Chen Xiaoyun's first US solo show, 'Faint', the artist seems to ask us to...

Published 17.08.07

Artists at Work: Danh Vo

Artists at Work: Danh Vo

Adam Carr

Dahn Vo in conversation with Adam Carr

Published 09.08.07

'The 80s: A Topology' at Museu Serralves

'The 80s: A Topology' at Museu Serralves

Pedro de Llano

Eight years after it opened, Porto's Museu Serralves has organised an ambitious historical survey that...

Published 25.07.07

Robert Beavers at Tate Modern

Robert Beavers at Tate Modern

Melissa Gronlund

'I think of filmmaking like architecture,' Robert Beavers writes in the program notes for his...

Published 07.07.07

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Christopher Bedford

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Christopher Bedford

In her recent show at Angles Gallery (2006), Judy Fiskin showed a grainy, black and...

Published 08.06.07

John Noel Smith at Fenderesky Gallery

John Noel Smith at Fenderesky Gallery

Christopher Bedford

The paintings in John Noel Smith's most recent exhibition at Fenderesky Gallery each display an...

Published 25.05.07

Feelings Are Facts: A Life, by Yvonne Rainer

Feelings Are Facts: A Life, by Yvonne Rainer

Ian White

Yvonne Rainer was a key figure in New York throughout the extraordinary cultural re-evaluations that...

Published 06.05.07

Harrell Fletcher at LAXART

Harrell Fletcher at LAXART

Arthur Ou

War memorials bear the constant duty to point towards fragments of the past, framing and...

Published 19.04.07

Group and Gang (The Absent Collective)

Group and Gang (The Absent Collective)

John Chilver

The trouble with the group is there is always someone who wants to be the...

Published 18.04.07

Vija Celmins at the Hammer Museum

Vija Celmins at the Hammer Museum

Christopher Bedford

Vija Celmins at the Hammer Museum

Christopher Bedford

With every scrupulously placed graphite stroke, Vija Celmins's deceptively analytical drawings bear down on the...

Published 05.04.07

Artists at Work: Lynne Cohen

Artists at Work: Lynne Cohen

Mona Hakim

Lynne Cohen in conversation with Mona Hakim

Published 22.03.07

John Bock at Regen Projects

John Bock at Regen Projects

Andrew Berardini

John Bock at Regen Projects

Andrew Berardini

Just as the young Cy Twombly's foray into military cryptology later informed his gestural abstraction...

Published 10.03.07

Damn Everything But Sister Corita

Damn Everything But Sister Corita

Pae White, Jim Isermann

Damn Everything But Sister Corita

Pae White, Jim Isermann

An email conversation between Pae White and Jim Isermann

Published 05.03.07

'If I Can't Dance...' at De Appel

'If I Can't Dance...' at De Appel

Bart van der Heide

Curators Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher have been exploring their desired synergy between 'celebration' and...

Published 01.03.07

Artists at Work: Matt Keegan

Artists at Work: Matt Keegan

Audrey Chan

Audrey Chan in conversation with Matt Keegan

Published 06.02.07

Mike Kelley at the Louvre

Mike Kelley at the Louvre

Jian-Xing Too

Mike Kelley's show at the Louvre is in the Salle de la Maquette, down below...

Published 18.12.06

Lorna Simpson at LA MOCA

Lorna Simpson at LA MOCA

Andrew Berardini

Lorna Simpson at LA MOCA

Andrew Berardini

Lorna Simpson's mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles dazzles and...

Published 07.12.06

Reconsiderations: Robert Henri

Reconsiderations: Robert Henri

James Welling

Robert Henri (1865-1929) is acknowledged as America's greatest art teacher of the first half of...

Published 20.10.06

Artists at Work: Monique Prieto

Artists at Work: Monique Prieto

Thomas Lawson

Monique Prieto in conversation with Thomas Lawson

Published 20.10.06

Three Ages of London's ICA

Three Ages of London's ICA

Dustin Ericksen

Three Ages of London's ICA

Dustin Ericksen

Fast forward to a post-literate future where decisions, digested, crafted and regurgitated by metaphysician administrators of...

Published 19.10.06

Coco Fusco at MC

Coco Fusco at MC

Julie Brown

Coco Fusco at MC

Julie Brown

Coco Fusco’s recent exhibit at MC included the photographic series  Bare Life Study #1 ,...

Published 18.10.06