There is a knowing wink in an exhibition titled “sophisticated shit.” Used by Spanish speakers when one has forgotten a particular word, the slang term chingadera inflects the practices on display here with jocularity, framing the work in a discourse of the not yet known.
Read MoreHeidi Hahn’s paintings remind me of Erik Satie’s compositions. It’s a funny comparison to make, because his music is famously minimal, and the first thing you notice about the 10 numbered oils in Ms. Hahn’s new show, “The Future Is Elsewhere (if It Breaks Your Heart),” at Jack Hanley, is their luxurious brushwork.
Read MoreMany artists, stuck glamorizing the “starving artist” cliché they’ve been conditioned to revere, come off as uncomfortable with success or, worse, ungrateful. This is not the case with painter and contemporary artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn. In his work and his life, Quinn recognizes that every individual is comprised of a multitude of layered life experiences.
Read MoreKohn Gallery presents Engender, a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists who are revolutionizing the way we visualize conventional gender as exclusively male or female. Established in 1985, the Kohn Gallery has presented historically significant exhibitions in Los Angeles alongside exciting contemporary artists, creating meaningful contexts to establish links to a greater art historical continuum.
Read MoreThere couldn’t be a much prettier place for an art fair: the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, two Beaux-Arts palace-museums built for the 1900 Universal Exposition, royally nodding to each other across the grandeur of Avenue Winston Churchill (formerly Avenue Nicolas II), at the foot of Pont Alexandre III. FIAC — the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain — brings a huge array of contemporary and modern art to this corner every fall, yet the event keeps expanding around the city
Read MoreKohn Gallery's group exhibition "Engender" features 17 contemporary artist who are revolutionizing the way we visualize conventional gender as exclusively male or female.
Read MoreKohn Gallery , in Los Angeles, presents Chingaderas Sofisticadas , an unprecedented exhibition that brings together nine outstanding artists living in Guadalajara, whose varied practices contribute to the growing cultural ascent and international recognition of that Mexican city.
Read MoreChingaderas Sofisticadas — sophisticated f**kers — is the provocative title of a group show of artists associated with the culturally rich city of Guadalajara. Organized by Esthella Provas with Samantha Glaser, it includes a marvelous painting by Jorge Méndez Blake.
Read MoreLA-based Kohn Gallery’s upcoming Fall exhibition, titled ENGENDER, will reexamine male and female gender classifications—a topic that is quite timely now as it has ever been given the ongoing gender debates within our political climate.
Read MoreThe exhibition titled "Chingaderas Sofisticadas” brings together the works of nine prominent artists. These include Eduardo Sarabia, Gonzalo Lebrija and Milena Muzquiz - Muzquiz’s work with ceramics can be interpreted as an exercise ofscrutiny; the accumulation of elements seeks to imitate the uneven and contradictory way in which the human mind works
Read MoreToday’s show: “Chingaderas Sofisticadas” is on view at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, through Saturday, November 4. The group exhibition, curated by Samantha Glaser and Esthella Provas, presents the work of nine Guadalajara, Mexico–based artists.
Read MoreChingaderas Sofisticadas es la nueva exposición de Kohn Gallery en Los Ángeles, la cual estará conformada por el trabajo de nueve artistas mexicanos que viven y trabajan en Guadalajara y que han colaborado en posicionar a esta ciudad como una capital artística.
Read MoreIn the summer of 1967, more than 100,000 young people streamed into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, as well as Greenwich Village in New York and Old Town in Chicago, to celebrate peace, love, and music. Many of the artists, poets and musicians associated with the “Summer of Love” embraced the work of British visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) and used it as a compass to drive their own political and personal evolutions.
Read MoreBruce Conner in the 14th Biennale de Lyon, Floating Worlds with films CROSSROADS (1976) and EASTER MORNING (1966-2008).
Read MoreDelirious times demand delirious art, or so this exhibition proposes. The years between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Around the globe, military conflict proliferated and social and political unrest flared.
Read MoreThis exhibition marks the 25th anniversary of the Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine, dedicated on September 12, 1992. It celebrates the varied styles found in contemporary California art from the 1960s to present, an important focus of the Frederick Weisman collection.
Read MoreUnsettled amasses 200 artworks by 80 artists living and/or working in a super-region we call the Greater West, a geographic area that stretches from Alaska to Patagonia, and from Australia to the American West.
Read MoreDennis Hopper might be best known as a film actor and director but his first love was photography. In the early 1960s he went everywhere with his Nikon around his neck, photographing streetscapes and people who symbolize street culture, whether they were famous or lived on the fringes. He photographed seminal pop artists who broke artistic barriers by making art from street culture, the Hell’s Angels who made their hang out on the street, the Sunset Strip Riots, and Martin Luther King Jr., whom he accompanied on civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma. The rediscovery of these lost photographs provides an intimate diary of the time, places and people that shaped his rebellious creative spirit.
Read MoreI shoot a lot of crap,” Dennis Hopper once said of his photographs, most of which date from the early to mid-1960s, the period when the difficult actor, often unemployed, most avidly wielded a still camera.
Read MoreLaughing on the Outside: Selections from the Permanent Collection presents artworks from MOCA’s collection that register the ludicrous, the impossible, and the playful. On view are stairs that lead to nowhere, invitations to exhibitions that contain no objects, and boots that appear to walk by themselves.
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