Daniel Gordon Orange Sunrise with Flowers, Fruit, and Vessels  Nazarian/Curcio April 20 – May 25, 2024  Daniel Gordon is one of a number of contemporary artists who work within the parameters of “Constructed Photography.” In addition to Gordon, some artists/photographers who work this way are Matt Lipps, Chris Engman and Thomas Demand. Constructed photographs are images created in the studio and shot from a particular vantage point. They use carefully created objects set on table tops, or made to scale so they cohere within the image to form a believable, though hand-crafted scene ..read more

Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar, 2023. Courtesy of the Tate Museum. Tate Britain has announced the prestigious Turner Prize 2024 shortlist, featuring four standout artists: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas. Their works will be showcased at Tate Britain from September 25, 2024, to February 16, 2025, marking a significant milestone-the 40th anniversary of the Turner Prize, and its homecoming to Tate Britain after a six-year hiatus. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on December 3, 2024, held at Tate Britain. Pio Abad Pio Abad earned his nomination for hi ..read more

Head from a Statue of a Youth, ca. 100 BCE–100 CE. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced that it would return to Turkey an ancient life-size bronze sculpture of a young man’s head. The museum acquired the work, which dates to 100 BCE–100 CE, in 1971 from dealer Nicolas Koutoulakis, who was later discovered to have sold to the Getty other artifacts that had been looted. The institution said it had recently received from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office information confirming that the object had been illegally excavated. The head has been taken off view at the Gett ..read more

Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha/Now/Then  Los Angeles County Museum of Art April 7 – October 6, 2024 In 1956, Ed Ruscha left Oklahoma City to study commercial art in Los Angeles and immediately developed an affinity with the city. Los Angeles then, as it is now, was filled with signage and advertisements. It also has awe-inspiring skies, palm trees and iconic architecture and the young Ruscha’s drawings and paintings soon filled with these images. In Los Angeles today, people speak of Ed Ruscha moments like palm trees silhouetted against gradient backgrounds. It is unexpected and ironically humorou ..read more

Marcus Brutus, Big Fun in the Big Town, 2023. Harper’s has announced Lotus Blossom, New York-based artist Marcus Brutus’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation features new acrylic paintings by Brutus and opens Friday, April 19, 6–8pm. Lotus Blossom shares its title with the jazz record by the late trumpeter and composer, Kenny Dorham. The exhibition, like Dorham’s composition, is a peripatetic ode to the singsong of spring. Within Lotus Blossom, Marcus Brutus captures the evergreen spirit of the season through movement-driven figuration inspired by Black A ..read more

Kira Maria Shewfelt, Coup de grâce (After Conchita Cintrón), 2023. Now showing at Make Room, The Yearlings by Kira Shewfelt is devoted to moments of becoming. In each painting, figures of lovers and children, horses and butterflies alike, convene, sharing touch or experience in scenes the artist describes as moments of “high transference and action”—  and so, touch is a relational reminder, a promise that we are bound together, interconnected through our relationships, with potential for becoming more. The exhibit runs through May 24, 2024 The artist’s gestures and marks are applied ..read more

Allen Ruppersberg 25 Ways to Start Over  Marc Selwyn Fine Art March 16- April 20, 2024  The works of Allen Ruppersberg can be applauded for their wit, intelligence and humor. Each project is conceptually savvy and visually engaging. In his latest exhibit titled 25 Ways to Start Over, Ruppersberg does not disappoint. The works are based on a set of questions or premises that engage with the concept of “starting over.” Among the 25 ways of starting over prescribed within the pieces are the directives to: Change your name, Begin at the beginning, Do a self-portrait, Embrace ..read more

Where the Wild Things Are. Copyright © 1963, renewed 1991, by Maurice Sendak. The Skirball Cultural Center announces the West Coast debut of Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak, celebrating the work of Jewish American artist Maurice Sendak, creator of the acclaimed children’s books Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), and Outside Over There (1980). Organized by The Columbus Museum of Art, where it premiered in October 2022, this is the first major Sendak retrospective since his death in 2012, and the largest and most complete exhibition of his work ..read more

Faith Ringgold, courtesy ACA Galleries NY © All rights reserved. Faith Ringgold, a pioneering multimedia artist renowned for her vibrant pictorial quilts capturing the essence of the African American experience, passed away on Saturday at her Englewood, New Jersey residence. She was 93 years old. Her daughter, Barbara Wallace, confirmed her death. Throughout a career spanning over five decades, Ringgold delved into themes of race, gender, class, family, and community through various artistic mediums, including painting, sculpture, textiles, and performance art. A staunch advocate for the r ..read more

Midwestern-raised, Los Angeles-based Kim DeJesus – who trained at Arizona State University and whose large-scale abstract paintings revolve around process and discovery, and encompass the fluidity of memory, but nevertheless tell specific stories that express human emotion in repeating forms while representing doors of transformation, femininity and spiritual transcendence – plumbs her own psychological depths only to discover what makes her love work and life.   What historical art figure would you like to have lunch with and why? Elaine de Kooning, without hesitation. I love her pain ..read more