Peter Frank

Although he blew town for Chicago several years back, Robert Heinecken remains a revered figure in the Los Angeles photography scene; he’s a teacher, mentor and nurturing presence to just about anyone over 30 who makes art with a still camera. His 35-year retrospective at LACMA, organized by Chicago‘s Museum......

Courtesy the Geffen ContemporaryYOU KNOW THE WORK OF BARBARA Kruger, even if you don't know her name. You have seen it on billboards, on T-shirts, on magazine covers, on the sides of buildings. You have taken note of its bold, elemental marriage of word and image, a marriage that seems......

Courtesy the Museum ofContemporary ArtFRANK O'HARA COULD WELL HAVE been the love child of Walt Whitman and Jean Cocteau. He was and remains one of the central figures in postwar American literature and visual art alike -- not least because he contributed, mightily, deliberately, self-consciously and selflessly, to both realms......

Photo by Becky CohenLEAVE YOURSELF SOME TIME TO GO THROUGH ELEANOR Antin's retrospective. Uh-oh, you're thinking, it's one of those multimedia installation things whose film and video sequences conspire to keep us on our butts, gawking at obscure gestures unfolding in excruciating choreographies, isn't it? Or it's all textbooky conceptual......

© Man Ray Trust"A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray" -- at least the third major retrospective locally accorded modernism's main Man in this decade -- proffers a body of work that was avant-garde, even controversial, in its day and is still good-looking and interesting, however softened by the......

There is little stylistic development in Chaim Soutine's work: He began as an Expressionist (albeit one cognizant of Cubist space and composition) and ended as one. And, as an Expressionist, he was an odd man out in interwar Paris, wielding a loaded brush at a time when the with-it aesthete......