Christopher Miles

You might mistake the first painting in Maaike Schoorel’s show for a blank canvas that picked up smudges while bumping around the Dutch artist’s London studio. But slow down — wait — and there she is. Naomi, painted at nearly life size, staring right at you, lies on her back......

Over the past couple of decades, Constance Mallinson has deployed a bag of tricks borrowed from the antics and tactics of old masters, commercial illustrators, designers and filmmakers, to create landscape paintings that are photorealistically convincing while laying bare their pictorial devices. In some paintings, Mallinson assembled bits of landscape......

Imagine if Goya, chronicler of the excess, decrepitude and depravity that brought brutal irony to the end of the “age of reason,” and Fragonard, master of late-Ancien-Régime French Rococo fluff, were given a crash course on the developments of Impressionism and Expressionism, Pop, feminism, “Bad Painting” (some of which wasn’t......

There’s a relentlessness that defines Robert Longo’s oeuvre, and his imagery — whether the yuppies spasming as if their strings are being yanked by an invisible puppet master, or his supersized guns, mushroom clouds, scrutinizing eyes and pounding waves. In their inevitable unfolding of trouble ranging from mischief to atrocity,......

Aptly titled Venice, Venice, Paris-based artist Paul P.’s current offering at Marc Selwyn is something of a tribute — feeling as if part travel diary and part reverie — to the two seaside locales by the same name in Italy and California. Mr. P., whose name seems an almost calculated......

Although Peter Lodato’s paintings are as pared down as his work has ever been, and deal in the formal rigor that has defined his oeuvre since the 1970s, they are as richly evocative as his past sculptural and installation works. Lodato’s is a practice rooted in variation upon theme; this......

Louise Bourgeois, Martin Kippenberger, Marlene Dumas, Lawrence Weiner, Allan Kaprow and “Collecting Collections” at MOCA: Because while L.A.’s premier institution for contemporary art has had its greater and lesser exhibitions over the years, this year’s impressive lineup, which not only brought world-class contemporary art to Los Angeles but also showed......