The Most Memorable Art of This Year
Edward Goldman revisits the year's seven best L.A. exhibitions, rubbing shoulders with Picasso and Miro and diving into the Aegean sea with L.A. icon Charles Garabedian.
Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.

Edward Goldman revisits the year's seven best L.A. exhibitions, rubbing shoulders with Picasso and Miro and diving into the Aegean sea with L.A. icon Charles Garabedian.
Mex/LA: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985 at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach through Feb. 5, 2012.
Edward Goldman travels through Paris, taking you to must-see art exhibitions, a fantastically renovated museum space and one not-so-fantastic new museum
A retrospective of video art from around the world highlights the role of the Long Beach Museum of Art.
Edward Goldman discusses his recent trip to New York and the show-stopping exhibitions he saw, including surprising, tour de force gallery shows by two L.A. artists.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp discusses an exhibit chronicling the history of printmaking in LA, showcasing work produced at Tamarind, Gemini and Cirrus in the 1960s and 70s.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, a big fan of Kenneth Anger, marvels at his personal archives and films at MOCA.
Edward Goldman shares his annual gift list, which includes a few deliciously heavy biographies and a smart selection of art books bound to impress friends and relatives.
Edward Goldman shares listeners' responses to his recent commentary on Marina Abramovic and the MOCA Gala...
Art critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp looks at Glenn Ligon: America, currently on view at LACMA.
Edward Goldman reports from the annual MOCA Gala, an extravagant one-night circus-like event spiced with a lot of art, sex and nudity..
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp shares her thoughts on "Doin' it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Women's Building," the Pacific Standard Time exhibit now at the Otis Gallery.
Special to Art Talk: KCRW's Lisa Napoli interviews artist Theaster Gates about The Black Monks of Mississippi.
Edward Goldman reviews a new exhibition at the Getty Villa that explores the deep connection between Ancient and Modern art.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp explores the experimental photography of Robert Heinecken and Wallace Berman, now on view at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
Edward Goldman reviews the latest exhibition by Gajin Fujita at LA Louver Gallery and Chuck Close at Blum & Poe Gallery...
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp takes us to UCLA's Hammer Museum for Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980.
A few weeks ago, in my Art Talk , I shared with you the story of an unusual collaboration between Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode that took place in the late 1980's. The project...
For weeks, I've been talking about Los Angeles art of the 1960's, art made of light and colored plastic, even Pop art, art produced during period of prosperity in Southern California...
Have you ever seen a first-rate theater performance, sitting front and center, close to the stage? That's how I felt walking through the smart, captivating, and elegantly installed...
Before the Museum of Contemporary Art, even before the L.A. County Museum of Art, large art exhibitions in this city were held at what was then called the Museum of Natural Science...
Okay, make fun of me. With hundreds of Pacific Standard Time exhibitions — or is it thousands? — non-stop, 24/7, all over town, I desperately needed an escape....
In the 1960's, artists everywhere were experimenting with ways to move beyond the traditional disciplines of painting and sculpture. In Southern California, many of them...
Just in time for an explosion of exhibitions in museums and galleries all over Southern California, two new art fairs were launched in LA last week...
With all the discussion of Pacific Standard Time, the contributions of the Getty Museum have not really come into focus. As of October 1, the focus will be clear....
For us, Angelinos, intrigued by the city’s ever-changing art scene, this week will test our endurance... There are major exhibitions opening at four different museums plus...
Pacific Standard Time is far flung affair and last week I drove to east to check out the show at Pomona College Museum of Art...
You probably heard the joke that one cannot be too thin or too rich. To which I usually like to add, with a wink, that one cannot have too much good art either....
Art Critic Hunter Drohojowska-Phil reviews Beatrice Wood and Craig Kauffman, both in Santa Monica.
In the art world, the beginning of September is a time when bells start ringing, announcing the opening of the autumn season...