Shana Nys Dambrot

David Bradley (b.1954, Minnesota Chippewa) has, over the course of a four-decade painting career, continued to expand the definition of art from "Indian Country" and what is expected of its aesthetic and meaning, within the problematic context of American visual culture. In the process he also redefined what pop art itself can achieve....

Yes, we know, we've been to a lot of art fairs together already these past several weeks. But if you've got one more in you, the Other Art Fair is something a bit special this weekend at the Reef....

The Cheese Wall is his latest art project, certainly among his most political and potentially his most ambitious. A direct, if cheeky and eventually stinky, response to the egregious and absurd situation with the U.S./Mexico border wall, Cavallaro’s action exists in the Dadaist tradition of humor in dark times, the Fluxus tradition of performative ephemeral object-making, and the YouTube world of global viral video art....

The Artadia Awards were founded to fill the chasm in individual artist grants left by the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts program in the late 1990s. Argote and Athey will each receive $10,000; as the inaugural Marciano Artadia awardee, Brackens will receive $25,000. This is Artadia’s fifth year making unrestricted awards to artists in Los Angeles....

This week we meet painter Forrest Kirk, whose anomalous style merges a storytelling impulse with gestural abstraction and an old-school studio painting education in Paris. Moving fluidly between realism, figuration and pure color and texture, Kirk also incorporates elements of found objects, mixed media and collaged segments culled from his own original images in sociopolitically fraught scenes from literature, history and experience that he depicts, from James Baldwin to modern day Los Angeles....

"Around 2008," Nick Brandt explains, "the killing and poaching started again suddenly; by 2010 the animals had learned to fear people again. The foundation exists to address the situation. I consider myself a pessimistic idealist. I have a dark, black vision of our current direction but at the same time I believe it's absolutely, completely worthwhile to try to mitigate the damage. Big Life Foundation battles against what you see in these photos."...