Find me over at KCET…
…where I’m profiling painter Justin Bower in the Orange County of Philip K. Dick. Tweet
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…exploring the ways in which Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture reflected a unique strain of Latin American leftist thought. Above, Niemeyer’s monument to Juscelino Kubitschek, in Brasilia. (Photo by...
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…where I’ve got a profile of artist Paul Vanouse, a bio artist who works with DNA. That’s him above right, with his assistant Kerry Sheehan, staging Suspect Inversion Center, a piece in which he...
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The Lost Frontier, 1997-2005, by Llyn Foulkes. (Image courtesy of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.) Hi Folks: I had the great honor of profiling painter Llyn Foulkes for NPR News. Not only did I get to...
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…where I’m talking about everything biotech in art, including cell cultures, bacterial colonies, DNA manipulation in E. coli bacteria, implanted arm-ears and much much more. (That’s Paul Vanouse’s DNA...
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I spent an afternoon hanging at LACMA’s gallery at Charles White Elementary School, watching artist Shinique Smith and a crew of kids make a sculpture out of socks. In a city as sprawling as Los...
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‘Cuz this little god forsaken blog made it onto the updated list of TED’s 100 Websites You Should Know. Tweet
View ArticleFind me at ARCHITECT Magazine.
Denise Scott Brown in Las Vegas, 1966, working on a study of the city’s vernacular architecture. (Photo by Robert Venturi.) Every once in a while I get to do an interview that blows my mind. This time,...
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This week’s awesomeness: 323 Projects, a gallery that’s nothing more than a phone line. This month and next, you can can dial in and get a few things off your chest to a close friend or family member —...
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…where I’m discussing one of my favorite topics: whether photography should be allowed in museums. And yes, that’s me above, shooting through Teresita Fernandez’s 2005 sculpture Fire at SFMOMA. Tweet
View ArticleFind me at Hyperallergic…
…where I’m talking about William Powhida’s show at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. Tweet
View ArticleTalking Turrell at ARCHITECT.
I got to hit the James Turrell retrospective at LACMA. And it is pretty dang wild. My story in ARCHITECT. Tweet
View ArticleModernism’s Beginning and End.
Two L.A. shows — one at LACMA and the other at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture — serve as interesting bookends to Modernism. Read my take at Hyperallergic. Tweet
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I’ve got an update in ARCHITECT Magazine about Denise Scott Brown and the Pritzker Prize situation. Nine weeks after the story broke, and many media stories later, the committee has yet to announce...
View ArticleIn Channa Horwitz’s Orange Grid.
I recently spent some quality time inside Channa Horwitz‘s installation at François Ghebaly in Culver City, the last gallery show organized by the artist before her death in April. I liked the...
View ArticlePreviewing Peter Zumthor’s LACMA basestar.
Got a look at Peter Zumthor’s proposed design for the new LACMA building. It is all kinds of amazing. Find my write-up in ARCHITECT Magazine. Above is one of my favorite features of the new design: the...
View ArticleTalking ‘net art at ARTnews.
A video still from Joe Hamilton’s Hyper Geography, 2011. (Courtesy of the artist.) My very cursory overview of what’s going on in the universe of ‘net art is now up at ARTnews. If there ever was a...
View ArticleHive Mind: Please recommend your favorite travel and travel-related books!
Booooks!!! I need your booooooks! Dear Hive Mind: I have just scored the dreamiest dream job a travel writer could every hope for: I’m curating a travel library for a cultural center abroad. I have...
View ArticleIn which I talk about babies…
…and how women are dubbed ‘selfish’ for not having them — now up at Time.com. The bebe above comes courtesy of Cosimo Rosselli at the Huntington Library. Pic by yours truly. Tweet
View ArticleBits and scraps: An installation about all that remains after we die.
A view of Nothing Else Left, 2013, at the Grand Central Art Center. (Photo by C-M.) Colombian artist Adriana Salazar has a pair of very stirring installations at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa...
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