Claudia Ross

6 days ago | artforum.com | Claudia Ross

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1 week ago | artreview.com | Claudia Ross

From Yorgos Lanthimos to David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch to Harmony Korine, a growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong? Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023) has been dubbed ‘an awe-striking visual feast’, Wes Anderson named ‘one of America’s most unique cinematic voices’, and Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning Anora (2024) likened to ‘a rich Tchaikovskian symphony’.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Claudia Ross

LOS ANGELES — When I was in graduate school for an MFA in writing, a professor told me something harrowing. “Most people here aren’t artists,” she said. “They’re students.” The judgment was implicit: Students go to school, and artists make art. At the time, I deeply wanted to be an artist, and not a student — but after viewing graduate art exhibitions across Los Angeles, I believe the latter to be the superior category.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Claudia Ross

Lang’s newest artwork, like his clothing, explores the uncanny ways that industrial refuse can interact with and even evoke human fleshIn 1998 Helmut Lang shifted the New York presentation of his Spring/Summer collection from November to September, hoping to pre-empt other major fashion houses’ runways. Instead, the entire fashion world followed suit, debuting their own Manhattan shows to correspond with Lang’s – a calendar shift that remains to this day.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Claudia Ross

LOS ANGELES — “Speak boldly!” says musician and composer Julius Eastman in the 1981 prelude to his musical composition, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc.” In REDCAT’s newest exhibition, World of Echo: Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell, Eastman’s bold speech is often heard only in echoes: between the present and the past, the dead and the living— and, most prominently, between the exhibition’s main subjects, longtime friends and musicians Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell.