Renée Reizman

Los Angeles

Art Critic and Journalist at Freelance

Artist & Writer | Adjunct @Pepperdine & @USCCinema | Staff Writer @sixtysixmag, Contributor @Hyperallergic & more | Send me to the desert, please | she/her

Articles

California’s New Slang

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Renée Reizman

SANTA BARBARA, California — Is it possible to define California’s aesthetic language? As a home to almost 40 million people, its artistic chatter takes on thousands of different tones. There’s the tongue-and-cheek wordplay from canonical greats like John Baldessari, odes to peace by the artsy nun Sister Corita Kent, and carefully reproduced graffiti by Afonso Gonzalez Jr., whose artistic sensibilities were in turn influenced by his father’s career as a sign painter.
Indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch reveals latest artistic turn in L.A. show - Los Angeles Times

4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Renée Reizman

A new exhibition of indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's newspaper collages will open March 29 at the James Fuentes gallery in Los Angeles, showing off a darker side.
Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Renée Reizman

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. WEST HOLLYWOOD, California — It’s an extremely precarious time to be a trans person in the United States. Already tenuous civil rights for the trans community have been further restricted by the current, far-right administration.
I played the live 'Traitors' experience inspired by the show. A ticket is only $41, and even losing was fun.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Renée Reizman

Entertainment I had a lot of fun playing "The Traitors" Experience in Los Angeles and I'd totally do it again. Renée Reizman This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . "The Traitors" Experience costs about $41 a person and can have up to 12 players. In it, players compete in challenges, Traitors commit murders, and Faithfuls try to catch them.
LA’s Felix Art Fair Meets Grief With Absurdity

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Renée Reizman

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. LOS ANGELES — We’ve made it to another LA Art Week! I went into this year feeling a bit apprehensive. Normally, Felix — the fair that exhibits artworks within poolside cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, on view now through Sunday, February 23 — is much more relaxed and lighthearted than Frieze, the week’s centerpiece show.
This Hockney Retrospective Shows He’s Always Been Cutting Edge

2 months ago | observer.com | Renée Reizman

David Hockney’s “Home Made Prints” series from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Image by RJ Sanchez; Image courtesy of the Palm Springs Art MuseumClose your eyes and imagine any work by the artist David Hockney. You’re probably thinking of his pink-hued paintings of swimming pools nestled in the Hollywood Hills.
L.A.'s gone all in on hyper-specific bumper stickers — the weirder the better

2 months ago | latimes.com | Renée Reizman

Jeanne Vaccaro, a scholar and curator from Kansas, always wanted to become a bumper sticker person. For years, she collected stickers from artists, musicians and bookstores, but she kept them away from her vehicle, afraid that they’d damage the paint. “It’s like a tattoo,” Vaccaro told me in Echo Park this past December. “Your mom tells you not to.
The Nefarious Power of the Unseen

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Renée Reizman

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Vanessa Hérnandez Cruz

2 months ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Renée Reizman

Vanessa Hérnandez Cruz defied time and space with her sci-fi thriller disguised as a dance, “Rain Glass Vortex.” In the performance, Cruz wrestled with her dance partners: her walker, Pluto, and her leg braces. She moved her arms and core in jerky, robotic movements. A bionic woman. Soon, four other disabled dancers (Em Waters, Ande Diedjomahor, India Harville, and Lu Chen) beamed in from the internet and mirrored her movements on a projection screen.
Prima Sakuntabhai

2 months ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Renée Reizman

This show is all smoke and mirrors, but in a good way. Prima Sakuntabhai plays with transparencies, reflections, and shadows to recapture their great-grand-uncle’s favorite haunts. The elder relative is Pridi Banomyongi, a Thai immigrant who adopted revolutionary ideas while studying among the intellectual set in Paris. He returned home, organized the 1932 Siamese Revolution in Thailand, and then returned to Paris as a political exile.