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Travis Diehl

Travis Diehl is online editor at X-TRA. He is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism.

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

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Conceptual artist Patrick Jackson presents a series of photographs and glass shelves that riff on modernism and minimalism

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The artist’s online game, ‘Screen Talk’, satirizes the bad politics and fake news muddling responses to COVID-19

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From ‘a coven of witches’ at Deitch Projects to the ‘totemic roughness’ of Huma Bhabha at David Kordansky Gallery, our critic’s guide to Los Angeles

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At Matthew Marks, New York, the artist’s enigmatic marbles and projections perform a subtle excavation of the gallery’s architecture 

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Kilimnik’s subjects are nearly always brutal – murder, empire, war – and just as often delivered with a practiced detachment

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There is a place for evidentiary art – but not for Kenneth Goldsmith’s print-out of 62,000 pages of the former US Secretary of State’s correspondence

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Though it tactfully sidesteps the real politics of housing, ‘Landlord Colors’ offers an alternative model to the ‘development biennial’ 

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In her solo show at CCA Wattis, San Francisco, the artist invokes sports awards to critique our obsession with victory

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A series of sculptures shown at Jenny’s, Los Angeles, challenge traditional categories of art 

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An exhibition at House of Gaga / Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles shows cyborgian sculptures that are combos of mechanics and organic matter

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The artist’s retrospective, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston at ICA LA, shows how thin the line is between artist and art worker

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For the 2018 edition of the biennial, it’s as if artists feel the need to resolve situations formally where they can’t be resolved for real

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How dis.art blurs the lines between education, entertainment and commerce

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A wild weekend at the High Desert Test Sites festival 2017

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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, USA

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David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

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Western art and Mexican culture collide in the work of Eduardo Sarabia

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REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA

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Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, USA

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