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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hannah Kay |Jori Finkel |Torey Akers |Tim Schneider
EarthshakerDel Vaz ProjectsUntil 18 AprilThe sky turned orange last month in Los Angeles. Like in the late artist Derek Jarman’s short film, Journey to Avebury (1971), it was as if a coloured gel had been placed over our eyes. “Was the glow in Jarman’s video evocative of the gilded hue of Elizabethan England?” asks Jay Ezra Nayssan, the founder of Del Vaz Projects in Santa Monica.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel |Tim Schneider
Unknown to each other and completely unco-ordinated, the galleries Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth opened significant exhibitions this week that have something in common: thoroughly and subversively empty rooms. At Marian Goodman, a historical survey of Bruce Nauman’s early years in the Los Angeles area, Pasadena Years (until 26 April), begins with mesmerising performance-based videos from 1969 and culminates with a 43ft-by-43ft skylit room where no art is hung or installed.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Henrietta Bentall |Ben Luke |Nancy Kenney
Alice Coltrane, Monument EternalHammer MuseumUNTIL 4 MAY“When I listen to her music, I feel like I’m being healed at a cellular level,” the curator Erin Christovale says of the late Alice Coltrane (1937-2007). This fortifying power looms large in the legacy of Coltrane, who became both a pioneer of spirituality-driven jazz and a devotional leader in the Vedic faith.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian
In the weeks following the outbreak of the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires in Greater Los Angeles in January, media reports often emphasised that it would be impossible to replace much of the property destroyed by the blazes. Even in cases where insurers honour policyholders’ loss claims, it is said that no amount of money can remedy the incineration of sentimental and one-of-a-kind objects, including works of art.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian
Los Angeles has many important cultural legacies—legacies often crowded out by the loud blare of Hollywood. The story of Corita Kent, also called Sister Mary Corita (1918-86), is one of them. A teacher and artist, Kent used art to promote messages of peace, hope and social justice in the 1960s and 70s. On 8 March, after years of operating out of a small space, the Corita Art Center (CAC) opens its own home in the Arts District.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian
In the weeks following the outbreak of the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires in Greater Los Angeles in January, media reports often emphasised that it would be impossible to replace much of the property destroyed by the blazes. Even in cases where insurers honour policyholders’ loss claims, it is said that no amount of money can remedy the incineration of sentimental and one-of-a-kind objects, including works of art.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian |Hannah Kay |Tim Schneider |Benjamin Sutton
Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion and Ancestors in Ancient PeruFowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, until 13 AprilAlong Peru’s desert coast, despite unpredictable weather and harsh conditions, some of the oldest and most advanced civilisations in the Americas blossomed. Over thousands of years, cities and agricultural centres cropped up in the region, forming extensive trade networks between them.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Torey Akers |Wallace Ludel
Although an avalanche of anxiety has already been triggered by the imminent return of once-and-again US president-elect Donald J. Trump, to date much of the resulting discussion within the art trade has concentrated on only two subjects: how to brace for the impact of the stiff tariffs he is threatening to impose, and why his administration’s tax policies could unleash a surge of pent-up spending among wealthy American buyers.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Tim Schneider |Daniel Cassady
Douglas Chrismas, the 80-year-old founder of Ace Gallery and for years an influential figure in the Los Angeles art world, was sentenced on Monday (13 January) to two years in federal prison after being convicted last year of embezzling more than $260,000 from his gallery’s bankruptcy estate.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider
With the ups and downs of 2024 now behind the art fair sector, attention returns once again to next month’s Frieze Los Angeles (20-23 February). Yet the greatest intrigue surrounding the brand concerns what will happen within its ownership structure, not its signature white tent at Santa Monica Airport.
