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

A mainstay of the post-war era, Marlborough Gallery has announced the closing of its esteemed locations in New York, London, Madrid, and Barcelona. With this choice, a chapter spanning almost eight decades comes to an end. It represents a change in the environment of the art world and comes amid a backdrop of financial instability and leadership unrest within the illustrious institution. Once at the top of the gallery hierarchy, Marlborough has recently seemed a little bland in comparison to the mega-chains Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian. Founded in London in 1946 by Frank Lloyd, a Jewish im ..read more

Wiki Commons Oliver Mark – Richard Serra, Siegen 2005.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. The 85-year-old Richard Serra, a legendary figure in contemporary art, passed away. Serra was born in San Francisco, California, on November 2, 1938. He showed an early interest in sculpture and art, hinting at a successful career to come. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, and later at Yale University, Serra honed his craft under the mentorship of renowned abstract expressionist painters such as Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning. During this formative period, Ser ..read more

Luna Luna Forgotten Fantasy  Los Angeles, CA On view through Spring, 2024  In Hamburg, Germany, from June 4 – August 31, 1987, Luna Luna opened to the public. Conceived by Austrian artist André Heller, it was an open-air museum billed as the “world’s first art amusement park.”Heller invited more than 30 artists from numerous countries to participate, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Josef Beuys, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaunay, Monika GilSing, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Rebecca Horn, Roy Lichtenstein and Kenny Scharf. After the exhibit closed in 1987, it was scheduled ..read more

Erik Hesselman The Billboard Creative (TBC) announced its 10- year anniversary show, a month-long installation curated by Mona Kuhn that turns billboard advertising spaces into an open-air art exhibition for all Angelenos. This landmark event will take place from April 1 to April 30, showcasing the work of 27 artists from across the U.S. and Europe in a variety of Los Angeles neighborhoods (map available at thebillboardcreative.org.) “We started in 2014 with a mission of making the art world more accessible to emerging and underrepresented artists and making art more accessible to the peop ..read more