Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer and Louise Lawler have joined forces in a viral public art project. Since early February, the artists have been disseminating art work throughout Los Angeles – Kruger and Sherman via billboards, Holzer via posters, zip screens and stickers, and Lawler via sound and broadcasts. The above video shows Holzer’s zip screen “Truisms” as it loops at Hollywood Boulevard and[…..]

An exhibition of Martin Schoeller’s photographs will open at Ace Gallery on March 5th. Schoeller, who won the Life Magazine Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for new talent in 2000, makes each feature of his subjects vividly distinctive. The show at Ace Gallery will feature Schoeller’s photographs of female body-builders, large format images in which each woman is pictured from the stomach up. With vapid, grey backgrounds,[…..]

Christof Mascher’s show at The Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angeles features a whimsically insidious array of paintings and drawings. Titled ‘Fake Empire,’ the exhibition is the artist’s first U.S. solo show. Mascher’s work eerily merges the expressionistic mark-making with illustrative, though far from literal, imagery and his paintings call to mind scenes from dark fantasy novels. While exhibition titles often seem removed from the[…..]

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum officially opened to the public on February 16th. The museum is the ambitious new incarnation of the Broad Foundation’s mission to improve public education. Its opening on the campus of the Los Angeles Museum of Art is part of LACMA’s plan to expand and transform its facilities and programming. Now, with the addition of the Broad Museum, LACMA has vastly[…..]

Rocky Schenck, courtesy of M+B Rocky Schenck’s first solo exhibition at M+B Gallery in Beverly Hills features eerie Los Angeles inspired photographs. Schenck’s highly composed and manipulated images evoke the haziness of blurred vision. His photographs of Hollywood interior and palm trees have the feeling of films stills that have been intentionally distorted, evidencing the interactions between his dual interests in film and still photography.[…..]

Daniel Richter’s current show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles couples expressionistic painting with pop-culture imagery. Loud colors and kinetic brushwork characterize Richter’s work and enhance the rockstar warfare that occurs when the subjects in his paintings clash with the vibrant surroundings. The show at Regen Projects also features a series of drawings that give a different picture of Richter’s practice. Less confrontational than the[…..]

Rachel Mason’s solo show at Circus Gallery is certainly timely. The Candidate includes a slew of dumb-fisted charcoal, ink and pastel renderings of politicians. The drawings span the gallery walls and Mason has installed mock podiums around the space. Arms protrude from the podiums, grasping microphones and suggesting the podiums might double for politician’s bodies. Circus Gallery is appropriately taking advantage of The Candidate’s timeliness,[…..]