Clik here to view.
Ryan Trecartin at LACMA
Considered a prophet of the digital age, video artist Ryan Trecartin transforms contemporary culture’s addiction to the internet and obsession with technological devices into a violently exuberant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Altoon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Today from our friends at Artillery Magazine, we bring you John David O’Brien’s review of John Altoon’s retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. O’Brien notes, “…Altoon’s art lives up to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Larry Sultan: Here and Home at LACMA
“Isn’t imagination really the final measure of intelligence?” — Larry Sultan Picture it: golf courses, lawn furniture, sprinklers, empty pools, groceries, plush carpets you can almost feel under your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short-format responses to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
There is a scene in Pierre Huyghe’s shadowy, dreamlike film The Host and the Cloud (2010) in which a woman produces a black rabbit from an unmarked box. No magician, she handles the unexpected animal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Islamic Art Now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Today from our friends at REORIENT, we bring you an excerpt from Nicola Baird’s review of Islamic Art Now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Baird notes that “the dialogue surrounding the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the Archives: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
This month marks the opening of the first major Australian solo exhibition of Pierre Huyghe’s work at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, so today we revisit this review by Alex Bigman, who assesses the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summer Reading – Closed Circuits: A Look Back at LACMA’s First Art and...
From our friends at East of Borneo, today we continue our Summer Reading series with an essay on LACMA’s Art and Technology initiative. Author Catherine Wagley notes: ’[…] the nostalgia for Art and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Random International: Rain Room at LACMA
It’s not too often that whatever MoMA-inspired freak-outs occurring in New York reverberate out to the West Coast. Recently, New Yorkers and Californians alike displayed the kind of commotion around...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#Hashtags: Dominion
#museums #empathy #posthuman #Anthropocene #environment Recent headlines demonstrate that human beings are consistently terrible to one another, and it can be tempting to reject the human altogether....
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–33, at LACMA
Following World War I and the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar Constitution was ratified, establishing Germany’s first democracy. It ushered in a thriving cultural climate:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at the Getty and LACMA
Robert Mapplethorpe is forever associated with scandals that erupted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, as well as the crippling drawdown of federal funding that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best of 2010 – L.A. Expanded: Sunday Boys
We’re looking back over a decade of Daily Serving’s greatest hits, and today’s selection comes from Shotgun Reviews editor Emily Holmes: “The column L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast was started...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spotlight: Momus
This summer, Daily Serving is shining a light on some arts publications that we regularly read and love. Wrapping up our week with Momus, today we bring you the final selection from Senior Editor Casey...
View Article