ART AND FASHION
Fashion Anthropologists and Radical Unfashionistas; Artists who put a mirror to the fashion industry—and those who build their own mirrors
What Does Zendaya Have to Do with Beauty? New partnership between Lancôme and the Louvre shows something less than beautiful
Frieze: The Art of Dressing: How Sartorial Choices Shape the Artist; In What Artists Wear, Charlie Porter examines figures from Georgia O’Keeffe to Gilbert & George to reflect on the importance of clothing to artistic practice and identity
What’s Behind The Artist As Model? From Andy Warhol To Derek Zoolander, How The Catwalk Became A Space For Self-Branding
Breaking Free from the Artifice of the Fashion Shoot; From whiteness to the male gaze, photographers Hanna Moon and Joyce Ng reflect on the conventions that underpin the fashion industry
Fashion’s Growing Pains; Natasha Degen on luxury fashion’s shallow ascendency into the art world and its transformation into a ‘cultural brand’
Why Fashion Has Entered the Business of Arts Institutions; A look into the intersection of luxury, culture and marketing through brand-owned museums
SoCal Fall Preview 2023
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STEVE RODEN
Christopher Knight: Steve Roden, a Vivaciously Inventive and Quintessential ‘Artist’s Artist,’ Dies at 59
Steve Roden Created The Sound
Steve Roden: Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences, LACE (2012)
Steve Roden, Video Documentation of His 'Bowrain' (2010)
Chris Ofili’s Mural on Grenfell Tower Tragedy Unveiled at Tate Britan
Broad Spotlights L.A. Artists
Sprawling Retrospective of French Artist Pierre Soulages (1919–2022) Opens in Cologne, Bringing Lesser-Known Gems to Light
Stromberg: Celebrating Five Decades of LA’s Self Help Graphics & Art Center; Series of exhibitions offers historical perspectives on the still-active LA organization’s cultural and social resonance
The Reappearing Act of Puppies Puppies; Artist, who also goes by Jade Kuriki-Olivo, began her career as a solitary and mysterious figure. Now, with the support of her community, she’s become entirely herself
All the New Yorker Cartoons of the Week!
Kenny Schachter Surveys the Start of the Fall Art Season, Unearthing Feuds, Farces, and Secret Identities Galore; Oh, and our columnist also has some thoughts on his former friend Inigo Philbrick's rapidly nearing release date
Harmony Korine 'Aggro Dr1ft' at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Nora Turato’s Emotional Outsourcing; At Sprüth Magers, the artist visually renders our hackneyed vocabularies around anxiety and care
Kim Fay in Detroit: Form&seek at Matéria
Charlotte Edey and Azadeh Elmizadeh “The Inexpressible is Contained” at Sea View
Review: Flesh and Bone by John Guzman at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
Slavs and Tatars Look to the Heavens for Knowledge; Knowledge And Literacy In Their Many Forms Are At The Heart Of A Small But Rich Show By The Art Collective
‘Is It Disgusting or Is It Beautiful?’: Sought-After L.A. Artist Alec Egan Taps Into the Theater of Artifice in His Maximalist Interiors
Sorry to See it Go! After a 25-Year Dispute, the Chrysler Museum Will Return the Neoclassical Masterpiece ‘Wounded Indian’ to Its Rightful Owner
Podcast: Modern Art Notes: On Artists Gary Simmons and Benjamin Wigfall
The Real Demands of the Diva; From nineteenth-century opera singers to Rihanna’s sheer Swarovski dress, a new exhibition tells us that we never really knew the women we call divas
In-depth interview with the artist Alvaro Barrington on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Johannes Vermeer to Tupac Shakur
Julian Schnabel to Shoot ‘In the Hands of Dante’ This October, Oscar Isaac Set to Star
Artist Avery Singer, Who Grew Up Blocks From the Twin Towers, Recalled Memories of 9/11 for Her New Museum Show at the ICA Miami, marks a semi-autobiographical turn for Singer
RUSCHA ROUNDUP
Artforum Portfolio: Ed Ruscha
“Ed Ruscha and Photography”
Station To Station: David Platzker on the Art of Ed Ruscha
Read an Excerpt of Lucy Lippard’s Newest Book, 'Stuff: Instead of a Memoir’; Lippard muses on her early years in New York City, from discovering a love of art writing to encountering Marcel Duchamp when she worked at MoMA’s library
The Illicit Allure of Art Forgery; An Anarchic Desire to Undermine the Art World’s Institutions Lends Art Forgers a Roguish, Rebellious Identity That is Both Compelling and Unsavory
Gagosian Quarterly: Tetsuya Ishida 'My Anxious Self'; Largest exhibition of the Japanese artist's work ever mounted in the US; Essay by Curator Cecilia Alemani
THREADS
In Her Los Angeles Studio, Suchitra Mattai Weaves Vibrant Tapestries Out of Saris and Dreams Up Epically Scaled Installations; Artist’s solo show “In the Absence of Power, In the Presence of Love” is now on view at Roberts Projects in L.A.
'If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change’: Climate Change Author Jeff Goodell Curates Vital Exhibition; Acclaimed writer takes on a new challenge with his first art show, bringing together work and writing that tells a long history of environmental change
DIGITAL ARTS
Tim Burton Blasts AI Recreations of His Style as ‘Very Disturbing’: ‘It’s Like a Robot Taking Your Humanity, Your Soul’
BuzzFeed: The Invasive AI Creations
Sonya Clark And Miniature Golf at Cranbrook Museum; We Are Each Other And Cranbrook On The Green
Van Gogh in Paris: The Radicalizing of a Palette and a Brush
‘Deliberately Obscure’: How To Locate The Weird World of Hidden Public Art; Not All Art Is Made To Be Hung On Walls. From Pinhole Dioramas Stashed In Bollards To Sculptures You Need Scuba Gear To See, We Meet The Artists Playing Hide And Seek With Their Viewers
7 Questions for Lari Pittman on Painting Imaginary, Fantastical Cities and Finding Artistic Inspiration Driving Through Los Angeles
Painter David Salle Starts His Days Searching for Artistic Transformation and Ends Them With a Cold Beer; Current exhibition, "World People," is on view at Lehmann Maupin in Seoul, South Korea
Boffo! Banksy Exhibition In Glasgow Attracts Record Crowds; Video; 180,000 visitors during its 10-week run; Ready to Travel: Where Will it Go?
Yau: The Infinite, Never-Released Scream; Asako Tabata Presents a Stark, Unsettling Vision of a Society In Which Women Have Little Chance To Achieve Autonomy
VIDEO
Panel Discussion 'Our River Project' at Shatto Gallery with moderator Shana Nys Dambrot, David Eddington, Michelle Robinson, Jane Tsong and Jose 'Prime' Reza
Must See! "Imprinting in Time—Chinese Printmaking at the Beginning of a New Era" at USC's Pacific Asia Museum; Kollwitz in China, Not many Westerners know of the significance of Käthe Kollwitz's work to Chinese modernism
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN