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Robert Colescott: The Art Of Caricature

At Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (Through April 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Honoring the life and legacy of beloved American figurative artist Robert Colescott (1925 – 2009), Blum & Poe, Los...

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Fay Ray: I AM THE HOUSE

At Shulamit Nazarian (Through May 26, 2016) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Teeming with traditionally feminine objects and symbols, including eggs, diamonds, chalices, flowers, feathers, and seashells, Los...

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David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life

at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Through July 29, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch What is the value of community? For David Hockney, one of Britain’s most prominent living painters, the circle...

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Rashid Johnson: The Rainbow Sign

at David Kordansky Gallery (Through May 19, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Viscous black liquids cascade down the picture planes as scrawled drawings of agonized grimaces and anxious eyes confront...

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A Love Letter In Sprays: LA’s BEYOND THE STREETS

At Werkartz, Los Angeles (through 6 July) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Wandering through the cavernous, labyrinthine yet thoroughly modern galleries of BEYOND THE STREETS — graffiti and street art...

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Made In L.A. Is A Tapestry Of Diversity, And A Golden One

at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Like an intricately woven tapestry, Made in L.A. 2018 stitches together a diverse sampling of some of the most dynamic and noteworthy...

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Judy Chicago’s Birth Project: Born Again

at the Pasadena Museum of California Art through October 7 (upon which time the museum will permanently close) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch “If men had babies, there would be thousands of images of the...

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Passing Through Time, Memory, Decay: A Journey That Wasn’t

at the Broad Museum (through February 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Time. It can be both friend and foe. It eludes us, slips through our fingers and yet also seemingly extends ad infinitum. The...

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David Leggett and Ryan Richey: Mixed Emotions

at Various Small Fires (Through August 25, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch What is the role of humor in art? For most of human history, both fine and folk art firmly resided in the realm of the...

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Spotlight—Selections from Kehinde Wiley’s The World Stage: Israel

at Skirball Cultural Center (Through 2 September 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Replete with royal, religious, and luscious floral imagery, Los Angeles-born painter Kehinde Wiley’s Old...

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Forgotten Roots: How Los Angeles Shaped Robert Rauschenberg

At LACMA (Through February 10, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Revealing the divine in the forsaken and the sublime in the mundane, beloved late Neo-Dadaist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) pens his...

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I Don’t Like Fiction, I Like History

at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (Through September 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch  Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time. — Duane Hanson What is reality...

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Mike Kelley’s Day Will Not Be Done

At Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (Through September 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch With its brilliant flashing lights and thunderously ecstatic melodies blasting through the speakers, late...

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David Lynch: I Was A Teenage Insect

at Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Through November 10, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Disturbing yet mesmerizing depictions of death, decay, and deformity bestrew beloved neo-noir director David Lynch’s...

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The Moth Costume In Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj

at Hammer Museum (Through January 20, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch While butterflies dancing on a sunlit breeze may epitomize the ephemeral as well as beauty, hope, and transformation, for Kosovan...

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Lari Pittman’s Portraits Of Textiles & Portraits Of Humans

at Regen Projects, Los Angeles (Through October 27, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Legendary Los Angeles-based graphic painter Lari Pittman’s kaleidoscopic bust portraits and textile-inspired...

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Summer Wheat: Catch and Release

at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (Through October 27, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Considering the disheartening, divisive nature of our current political reality, the mind often drifts, yearning...

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Ai Weiwei’s Fraught And Folkloric Life Cycle

at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through March 3, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch “Nationality is a Western concept. It was an invention of Western European scholars, who ever since have...

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One Day At A Time: Manny Farber And Termite Art

at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Through March 11, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Life is messy. Art should be, too. In One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, a sweeping group exhibition...

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Adrian Piper: Concepts And Intuitions, 1965-2016

at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Through January 6, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Societal stereotypes and divisions are unfortunately ubiquitous in our culture. Which begs the question, how...

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