Christopher Miles

Daniel Dove at Cherry and Martin Sandeep Mukherjee, Untitled (Long Gold Spiral) (2008) (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) M.A. Peers, Found Yuppie (2007) Daniel Dove seems more like another hatchling from Leipzig or Düsseldorf than a Yalie who resides in San Luis Obispo, where he teaches at Cal Poly......

"Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement” begins with photos chronicling the art collective Asco (Spanish for nausea). Patssi Valdez, Gronk, Willie Herron III and Harry Gamboa Jr., aspiring artists, writers and filmmakers when they formed Asco in the early ’70s, drew from Chicano traditions and contemporary art strategies to......

Christine Nguyen at Michael Kohn Gallery (Click to enlarge) Christine Nguyen, Particle Drifts, Skypos, and Highways (2008) (Click to enlarge) Daniel Richter, D.P. II (2007-08) Salvador Dali­ used the term "handmade color photography" to describe using realist painting techniques to deliver surrealist imagery. At Michael Kohn Gallery, Christine Nguyen delivers......

I'm so happy. Among a selection of generally enjoyable, often impressive works by artists including Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Serra, Leon Golub, Susan Rothenberg, Jack Goldstein and others, two of my favorite works by two of my favorite artists are on view in the inaugural......

Karen Liebowitz at Rosamund Felsen Gallery Karen Liebowitz, Blow-up Leviathan (2007) (Click to enlarge) Satoru Hoshino, Spring Snow No. 3 (2007) (Click to enlarge) If you read the title of Karen Liebowitz's show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery — "Leviathan" (from the Manifesting Prophecy Series) — you might be expecting something......

It’s hard to think of an institution taking up 20 acres of Miracle Mile real estate as an underdog, but that’s how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art looked just a few years ago when private donors failed to line up with their checkbooks behind Eli Broad and a......