Jonathan Griffin

The works on paper at Parker Gallery, in Los Angeles, ‘encounter memories, fantasies and dream images along the way’

The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’ 

At Nasher Sculpture Center, the prolific artist’s solo exhibition chafes at the history of Western modernism

Despite a soaring performance at the Dallas Museum of Art, the self-taught artist is still too often treated as an outsider

Ancestral knowledge and utopian thinking lend power to a sometimes uneven exhibition 

How an art magazine morphed into an international event

From an epic Rembrandt restoration and Charles White retrospective, to a trip to the Museum of Frogs, the best things ahead of us this year

An exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles, creates a trans-historical dialogue between Farber’s works and a generation of artists he influenced

‘It was exactly the right thing at exactly the right time’

An exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, sheds new light on colonialist patterns and projections 

At LA-based non-profit space JOAN, works by local artists Walter Askin, Elizabeth Bain and Sandra Vista embody theatricality in all its forms

From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities

Meticulous, gently humorous paintings isolate a deeply personal encounter with the obdurate structures of society and culture

 In the late artist’s paintings, on view at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, good is evil, right is wrong and no one is innocent 

Events that have pummelled Southern California’s news organizations over the past two years seem to have galvanized its local readership

At the Hammer Museum, LA, the curator casts a witty, critical eye on the vexed role of institutions contextualizing the art they display

On losing faith in generalism, learning to listen and embracing doubt 

Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

Team Bungalow, Los Angeles, USA