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Mar 13, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini
Seeking out signs of recovery during Frieze Week LA 2025AT THE BOTTOM OF the Tropicana Pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt, David Hockney’s waves of rich blue paint danced under the unbroken cyan of the water, the striped chaise longues reclined toward them. The VIP preview of the Felix Art Fair fluxed and churned. The sun shone, the speakers blared an upbeat if semi-anonymous dance track, the pool was closed.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini |Suzanne Hudson |Jessica Simmons-Reid |Jeremy FreyKarma
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Mitchell Chan |Tyler Dean |Andrew Berardini |Teri Henderson
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Tina Rivers Ryan |Tyler Dean |Andrew Berardini |Teri Henderson
AS AN AMERICAN born in the early 1980s, I feel lucky to have grown up in Miami, where our national homophobia and transphobia seemingly were buried under the sandy shores of South Beach. The Miami of my adolescence was the Miami of The Birdcage, Versace, and Madonna, and at the time, the city felt like ground zero of a post-AIDS renaissance of unabashedly—though conspicuously white—queer culture.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Tyler Dean |Andrew Berardini |Teri Henderson
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Tyler Dean |Andrew Berardini |Teri Henderson |Melissa Baksh
SINCE 2022, Charles Kang has been the curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He previously held positions at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Frick Collection in New York, the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. His first exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, “Point of View,” was on view from July to September of last year.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini
Los Angeles easily tangles into orgies of fantastic possibilities. In “Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation” at the Fisher Museum of Art at USC, curators Kelly Filreis and Alexis Bard Johnson set the scene by providing visitors with a dense, purple infographic that details the webs of kinship and connection among the sci-fi/fantasy proto-cosplayers, queer liberationists, and “magick with a K” esotericists of Los Angeles.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini |Teri Henderson |Melissa Baksh |Tina Rivers Ryan
A critic reckons with the ravaging of Los AngelesTHE HOT WINDS BLEW OVER the mountain passes and the fires came with them. At first, people posted cute quotes by Didion and Chandler about the Santa Anas. Then they stopped. The ash rained. I kept refreshing the app on my phone that told me about the fires, checking the news anywhere I could get it. Information and misinformation, mid-catastrophe public mourning and off-putting blame flickered across screens while the city burned.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Andrew Berardini
Like many working-class kids, I slogged through a series of staggered exploitations and legalities to survive, starting at age fourteen. At various points, I was a barista, a day laborer, a construction worker, a drug smuggler, a bartender, a writing tutor, an adjunct professor, and an attendant (for a gallery and at a gas station). Even art criticism began less as an enlightened avocation and more as a fairly irrational moneymaking scheme to feed my family.
