Donald Judd

Why David Lloyd Walked Away From the L.A. Art World

In the late 1980s, the abstract painter David Lloyd found himself where others wanted to be. Margo Leavin, who showed John Baldessari, Donald Judd and Alexis Smith, was his art dealer. In the art world -- or, to be more specific, the business of art -- to land a respected gallery is essential to b ... More >>

Margo Leavin Gallery, Closing After 42 Years: How It Became One of L.A.'s Best

Tuesday, Margo Leavin Gallery announced it will close after forty-two years. The news comes as a surprise. L.A. galleries close, move or rebrand themselves all the time, but not Margo Leavin. Hers has been a quiet, constant presence at 812 Robertson Boulevard for so long it seemed it would continue ... More >>

Michael Heizer's Double Negative: A Journey to a Land Art Landmark

How I learned to stop worrying and love man-made gashes in the earth

What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals

In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. They went in New Jersey, where Smithson was from, and spent an hour chopping away at a lump of lava ... More >>

Turning Heartbeats into Art, One Person at a Time: Interview with Japanese Artist SASAKI

Masayuki Saito​ Japanese artist Makoto Sasaki, a.k.a. SASAKI (he goes by his last name only, in all caps) has perfected repetition in art. He's been drawing the same motif for sixteen years -- the heartbeat. For the first ten years, he drew only his own. Since then, he's branched out a bit, a ... More >>

David McDonald at Jancar Gallery

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

NOISEMAKERS

Camilo Ontiveros: “I Want Your Washing Machine” at Steve Turner Contemporary

Art Around Town: Korty, Grinnan and Butzer

Martin Kippenberger's "Problem Perspective" at MOCA: Enter the K-Hole

The art of obnoxiousness

The Gayest Wedding, at La Brea Tar Pits

With doughnuts from Bob's for afters

Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

(photo by Randall Roberts) Today's a travel day for me, having just experienced the best little festival I've ever attended, the first annual Marfa Film Festival, in Marfa, Texas. The second annual one is already on my calendar for next year (and in the interim I'll be trying to convince my bosses ... More >>

“Cold Desolate Places”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 1 of 4

Phil Elverum: "It's so weird here right now. It's snowing but the sky is blue and it's not really that cold. I don't know where the flakes are coming from. I'm sitting here by the firepit and there's sun shining on me and snow falling on me."

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

Where Worlds Collide

Lecia Dole-Recio�s trippy universe

Good Old Boy

Tommy Lee Jones saddles up

Hurricane of the Eye

Artist Tim Hawkinson’s maelstrom of twisted fun

Good Thing

Emerging L.A. sculptors at the Hammer

The Painting Cure

Mark Dutcher�s "After the Fall" and Jean Lowe�s "The Loneliness Clinic"

Geometric Figuring

The schizophrenic dance of art and math

Next to Nothing

Less is more, more or less

The Many Colors of Pae White

Multidimensional artist brings her barrage to the Hammer

Cracked Abstraction

The geometrical designs of Alfred Jensen, the "O-ist" discoveries of Jim Shaw

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

Styroforms

Martin Durazo�s building blocks; plus Kelly McLane�s dreamscapes

Ten Shows That Rocked My World

Stuff of Obsession

Rediscovering Yayoi Kusama