Tag: Los Angeles

  • Graffiti redux

    Graffiti! The recent dust-up over three Los Angeles skyscrapers raises the question: defacement or fine art? Follow its history, from marked-up rocks to NFTs, and weigh in

  • Los Angeles: a round-up of the best on show

    The world may define Los Angeles by Hollywood, but the culture is better represented by the art

  • LA roundup 2023

    To know the art scene in Los Angeles calls on a lifetime of cruising its streets, storefronts, museums, galleries and riverbanks. All are stages for creative expression, every neighbourhood is fair game for pop-up display, and now that LA artists…

  • Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision

    Leaving the buzz to the glamorous new spaces that international mega-galleries are opening in Los Angeles, an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Getty Center is introducing the next generation of collectors to a new way of seeing

  • Reflections from Frieze Los Angeles 2022

    From Betye Saar’s recreation of her famous 1983 Los Angeles public mural to work shown by young, emerging galleries, Frieze Week sprinkled its magic over the city

  • Raffi Kalenderian – interview: ‘It’s like banging your head against a brick wall, but if you get through to the other side it feels so good’

    For Kalenderian, painting is all about excitement. His radical portraiture – as much of the scene as of the sitter – is a celebration of experimentation and problem-solving. Here, he speaks about what attracts him to his subjects and how…

  • Music From The Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles

    Moving to Los Angeles at 19, having grown up in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha was always an outsider. His detached perspective is a quality that has remained in his work – which would become so concerned with the city –…

  • Matthew Barney: River of Fundament

    Film, opera, sculpture, ancient Egypt, contemporary industrial America, Normal Mailer – this exhibition has it all. But making sense of Matthew Barney’s five-hour, epic film and the works inspired by and made for it, is not easy – nor is…

  • Dashiell Manley interview: ‘I approach most projects as if making a film’

    Los Angeles-based artist Dashiell Manley talks about The Great Train Robbery, explains why he sees himself mainly as a film-maker, and reveals how he forms his ideas and the processes involved in his complex, layered and thoughtful works

  • Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland

    5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…