Sesame Osama (Osama bin Laden and Bert the Muppet) Oct 2001
The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming! Sept 2004
It’s Alive!
The Undiscovered Country at
UCLA Hammer Museum 2004
Reverb and Renown (Guston and DeChirico at SMMOA) October 2006
[This is not a complete list - links coming, many still up at laweekly.com; if an entry is underlined it links to the full text]
2010
Unfinished Symphony (Steve Roden) Sept 2010
A Play on Worlds (Tim Hawkinson) Jun 2010
2009
True Lies II (The Yes Men) Oct 2009
Apocalypse Now and Then (Pompeii and Canaday) May 2009
Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report April 2009
Peripheral Visions: Nine of L.A.’s Square Pegs Get Hammered April 2009
Last Round: "At the Brewery Project: The Finale" Jan 2009
2008
Martin Kersels: Big Frame Nov 2008
Free Skating: Amanda Ross-Ho's Fourth-Dimensional Axel Jump Sept 2008
Juxtapalooza: The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread Sept 2008
On the Bus to the Dump: Wading in the Waste Stream With the Center for Land Use Interpretation Aug 2008
2007
Pink Elephants on Parade (Tim Hawkinson studio visit) February 2007
Attention Squared (Vija Celmins at the Hammer) February 2007
2006
Seven Abstract Painting Shows December 2006
Kid Stuff (Pranks 2 and other art books reviewed) December 2006
This is Not an Art Review (Magritte at LACMA) November 2006
StreetSignism November 2006
A Child’s Garden of Modernism (Kindergarten at Art Center) October 2006
Reverb and Renown (Guston and DeChirico at SMMOA) October 2006
Panter’s Playhouse (Gary Panter at Billy Shire Fine Art) September 2006
Site/Sound (CLUI’s Overlook and noise compilations) August 2006
Terminal Papers (Eva Hesse; Richard Pousette-Dart) August 2006
To Live and Die (But Not Show) in LA (Jason Rhoades, 1965–2006) August 2006
Hurd So Good (Steve Hurd at rosamund Felsen) August 2006
Prodigy Schmodigy (Six-year-old painter Marla Olmstead) July 2006
The Dalai Museum (Dalai Lama themed art at UCLA Fowler) June 2006
Field Hockney (Hockney Portraits at LACMA) June 2006
Graphic Oddballs (review of Art Out of Time) May 2006
#1 Combo (Ruscenberg’s Combines; Elliot Hundley, Brenna Youngblood) May 2006
Dutch Auction (Von Dutch auction at The Peterson Automotive Museum) May 2006
Anonyme (Société Anonyme at the Hammer) May 2006
A Tull Life (Dani Tull studio visit) April 2006
Real Fakes (Richard Pettibone and F. Scott Hess at Laguna Art Museum)
I Art the 80’s (5 Stories high at Track 16; Roger Herman at INMO) Mar 2006
Jamie Land (Cameron Jamie at the Whitney Biennial) Mar 2006
Out Standing in His Field (Courbet’s landscapes at the Getty) Mar 2006
Glossolalia for Dummies (Painting in Tongues at MOCA) Feb 2006
Natural History a Gogo (Sonic Sceneryat LA Natural History Museum) Feb 2006
Snapped Shots (Outsider Photography at UC Riverside) Feb 2006
Corrected Legacies (Getty Villa VS Reagan Museum) Feb 2006
Ecstasy of Influence (Gary Panter & Jonathan Lethem in conversation) Jan 2006
2005
First Impressions (Cezanne & Pissaro at LACMA) Dec 2005
Comic Genius (Masters of American Comics at MOCA/Hammer) Dec 2005
10 Comics that Shook the World (Alternate masters of comic art) Nov 2005
Shawmix (Jim Shaw’s fake comic covers) Nov 2005
Little Nemo to Jimbo (Masters of American Comics preview) Nov 2005
High Art (Ecstasy at MOCA) Nov 2005
State of the Art (special art issue includes editorial contributions, approx 45 short blurbs on LA art figures plus the following four feature articles) Oct 2005
Connie Butler (leaving MOCA) Oct 2005
Pictures from the Unibrow Revolution (Lowbrow Art goes mainstream) Oct 2005
The Great Unknown (Lee Mullican at LACMA) Oct 2005
State of Emergence (“catalog essay” for LA Weekly Biennieal) Oct 2005
Seven Degrees of Wally Berman (Semina Culture at SMMOA) Sept 2005
POST-Mortem, Popping Corn (POST closing; Not a Cornfield) Sept 2005
Orange Alert (Villa America at OCMA; While Pollock Was Sleeping at LAM) Aug 2005
Spirits Rock Among Us (Studio visit with Marnie Weber) Aug 2005
A Fowler Trifecta (Yangtze Remembered, UCLA Collects, Painting Ethiopia) July 2005
Basquiat Case (Basquiat at MOCA) July 2005
Hurricane of the Eye (Tim Hawkinson at LACMA) Cover feature. July 2005
Witches of Abstraction (3X Abstraction at SMOMA) July 2005
Beatnik Renaissance Man (Brion Gysin book review) June 2005
Premature Exhibitionism (Very Early Pictures at CSLA Luckman) June 2005
Feral Child (Process publishing house profile) June 2005
Terminal Viscosity (CLUI bus tour of Terminal Island) May 2005
Helter Shelter (Olafur Eliasson and Temporary Services) May 2005
Poster-Modernism (Rauschenberg and German/Austrian Posters at LACMA) May 2005
Herms the Messenger (George herms at SMMOA and Tobey Moss) Apr 2005
Empire of the Senses (David at the Getty) Mar 2005
Byrne,Baby Byrne (I ♥ PowerPoint at UCLA Hammer) Mar 2005
Triumph of the Ill (Beautiful Losers at OCMA) Mar 2005
The Colors! The Colors! (Visual Music at MOCA) Feb 2005
Good Thing (Thing at UCLA Hammer) Feb 2005
The End of Donald Kuspit? (California New Old Masters at C) Jan 2005
Nightvision (Jim Shaw at Patrick Painter) Jan 2005
Frankenkultur (Rose Parade; Lost but Found at Norton Simon) Jan 2005
2004
Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered (Last-Minute Gift Guide) Dec 2004
The Painting Cure (Mark Dutcher at Solway-Jones;
Jean Lowe at Felsen
Let’s Get Small (Laurie Anderson at UCLA; Ed Ruscha at MOCA) Nov 2004
Two Bobs in Search of a Landscape (Smithson at MOCA; Flick at LACMA) Nov 2004
It’s Alive (The Undiscovered Country at Hammer) Oct 2004
Genius With a Hard-On (Russ Meyer obit) Oct 2004
Moving Pictures (Pat O’Neill at SMMOA) Sept 2004
The Joy of Painting Saddam (John Kilduff & Let’s Paint TV) Sept 2004
Möbius Trip (Rodney Graham at MOCA) Aug 2004
Plastic Fantastic Cadavers (Dr. Gunther von Hagens Body Worlds) July 2004
Echoes of the Fall (September 11: Bearing Witness to History at JANM) July 2004
Hecho Wherever (Made in Mexico at UCLA Hammer) June 2004
But Is It Art? (Abu Ghraib, WB Superstar, Black Panthers) June 2004
Fire and Water (Karen Carson at RFG & Jennifer Pastor at Regen) May 2004
Stranded (Steve Roden studio visit) May 2004
Next to Nothing (A Minimal Future? at MOCA) Apr 2004
All Talking! All Drawing (Chris Ware & Ira Glass at UCLALive) Apr 2004
Lie of the Land (Favorite Art Hoaxes) Apr 2004
The Sound of One Hand Painting (Ed Ruscha catalog raisonnè) Apr 2004
Tainted Shamans (Oonark prints, Beuys play, aboriginal paintings) Mar 2004
Getting Out of Town (Terry Allen at LA Louver, SMMOA) Mar 2004
Making Believe for Real (Diane Arbus at LACMA) Mar 2004
Color Theory (FADE: African American Artists in Los Angeles) Feb 2004
Light and Shadowing (Arnold Mescges at the Skirball) Jan 2004
Feral Pop (Mexican Street Graphics at the Armory) Jan 2004
2003
Five Really Really Really Bad Sci-Fi Movies Dec 2003
Ranking the Museums Dec 2003
Don’t Look Back (Mike Kelley’s Proposal) Dec 2003
Voluntary Complexity (Coleman, the Claytons, and Pittman) Nov 2003
Revolutions Per Minute (Turnament turntable festival) Nov 2003
Stuff (Lynn Aldrich, Dennis Hollingsworth and the puppets of Anaphoria) Nov 2003
The Gehry Effect (Disney Hall) Oct 2003
Back From the Void (Lee Bontecou at UCLA Hammer) Oct, 2003
Say It With Flowers (Kim MacConnel at Rosamund Felsen) Sept 2003
Pushkin Comes to Shove (French Masterworks from Pushkin Museum) Aug 2003
Massage is the Medium (Suwan Lamainee at MAK Schindler Residency Program) Aug 2003
Apocalypse Maintenant (Le Dernier Cri, Elliot Hundley) Aug 2003
Weird Scenes Inside the Darkroom (Weston, Winogrand, Arbus, Eggleston) July 2003
Sounds Different (Outsider Music) June 2003
Godawfulism II (Feitelson, Owens, McLane, Day) June 2003
Mixism (Christian Marclay at UCLA Hammer) May 2003
Willful Perversity (Matthew Barney) May 2003
Hordes of Babylon (Genghis Khan at LACMA & the Iraqui Minister of Information) May 2003
Distress Signals (Mark Ryden & Jonathon Rosen) April 2003
Art Therapy (Loyola AT Program and Friedl Dicker-Brandeis at MOT) April 2003
Scribbles, Scriptures, & the Mid-Wilshire Explosion (6150 Galleries) March 2003
Urban Dervish: LA Bamba (Sufi Arts of Senegal at UCLA Fowler) February 2003
Extremeties (Bill Viola at The Getty) Cover feature; January 2003
Monsters of German Art (Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four) January 2003
Cracked Abstraction (The geometrical designs of Alfred Jensen, the “O-ist” discoveries of Jim Shaw) Feb 2003
My Affair With Romance Comics (Romance comic books of the 40s-70s) Jan 2003
2002
Doug Harvey’s Favorite Non-Human Artworks
Farrah’s Naked Art Special, Version 2.0
Outside in LA (Developmentally disabled artists of the ECF Art Center) Dec 2002
Pranksters, Deviants, and SoCal Satanists (Disinfomation: The Interviews book review) Nov 2002
Baldesaurus Rex (John Baldessari at Margo Leavin) Nov 2002
Juxtapoz & Juxtapozeurs (Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Show at Track 16) Nov 2002
On Beyond Representation (Jill Giegrich at The Armory) Oct 2002
Sam & Dave (Sam Durant at MOCA; Dave Muller at UCLA Hammer) Oct 2002
Rusty Pistols (Foundry Theater’s Lipstick Traces theater review) Oct 2002
Dutch Metal (Von Dutch at Cal State Northridge) Sept 2002
The Endless Summer Show (Surf Culture at Laguna Art Museum) Aug 2002
James Doolin, 1932 –2002 (Obit) Aug 2002
Slow Dazzle (Milton Avery at UCLA Hammer) Aug 2002
Merging Artists (On-Ramps at Pasadena Museum of California Art) July 2002
Sound and Beyond (SOUND at Schindler House; Beyond Music Festival) July 2002
Vaffanculo! (A-Fucka-You-a) (Arte Povera at MOCA) July 2002
Nun Dare Call It Criticism (Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon) June 2002
Chaos Theory (Charles Darwin Live & In Concert; Steve Roden at Santa Barbara CAM) June 2002
Warhol-By-Numbers (long blurbs on 5 Warhol pieces) May 2002
The Tao of Andy (Andy Warhol Retrospective at MOCA) May 2002
Digging the Dirt (Mike Kelley at Patrick Painter) May 2002
Outsider Physics (James Carter’s outsider physics at SMMOA) May 2002
Styroforms (Martin Durazo at Otis; Kelly McLane at Angles) April 2002
The Political Canvas (Daniel Martinez; Charles Phoenix; CLUI) April 2002
Seeing Things (Crackpot research ephemera at Chapman) March 2002
A Serious Racket (All Tomorrow’s Parties at UCLA) March 2002
Old White Guys Rule (Tom Wudl; Chas Garabedian; Tom Knechtel; Peter Voulkos) March 2002
Cavepainting (Cavepainting at SMMOA) Feb 2002
The Noise of Art (LA Sound Art overview) Feb 2002
Great Walls (LA’s Chinatown scene) Jan 2002
I See Lowbrow People (SHAG at La Luz; Mark Ryden at GCAC) Jan 2002
2001
12 Art Moments (2001 Top 12) Dec 2001
A Mutated Christmas
Formal Wear & Tear (Liz Larner at MOCA; E Chen at UCLA Hammer) Dec 2001
Firesigns of Life (Firesign Theater on XMradio) Dec 2001
Shadow People (Devices of Wonder at The Getty; Patty Wickman; Noble & Webster) Nov 2001
Synthetics (Big Plastic at The Armory; Sean Duffy; Terri Friedman) Nov 2001
Ubiquitous Citrus Firmament (Lemon Sky and LA living-room galleries) Oct 2001
A Few of Our Favorite Things (Library treasures at UCLA Hammer) Oct 2001
Broad Warriors (Broad Collection at LACMA) Oct 2001
Tis the Gift to Be Simple (Shaker Gift Drawings at UCLA Hammer) Sept 2001
Booster Shots (Stanton MacDonald-Wright at LACMA; LA as art center) Sept 2001
Jurassic Sequels (Aby Warburg at UCLA Fowler; The Velaslavasay Panorama) Aug 2001
Pop Goes the Easel
Wilderness Tips (Karen Carson; Mark Housley; Rogue Wave at LA Louver) July 2001
Get Pretty (Interview with Dave Hickey on SITE Santa Fe Biennial) July 2001
Homer and Ray (Winslow Homer at LACMA; Raymond Pettibon books at SMMOA) June 2001
Multiple Exposures (Snapshot at UCLA Hammer) June 2001
Slice & Dice Aesthetics (Mike Diana’s comix; John Oswald’s Plunderphonics) May 2001
P.O.’d (Public Offerings at MOCA) May 2001
Dismembering Harry Smith (Harry Smith symposium at The Getty) May 2001
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth 1932-2001 (Obit) April 2001
Popped (Pop Art symposium at The Getty) April 2001
Scopophilial Pleasures (Hickey & Rauschenberg; Leni Riefenstahl; James Hayward) March 2001
Inside/Outside (R.M. Schindler at MOCA) March 2001
Death Stalking Sleep-Walking Barbarian Ninja Terminators (Painted movie posters from Ghana at UCLA Fowler; Ivan Morley at Patrick Painter)
About Time (Making Time video survey at UCLA Hammer) Feb 2001
Peripheral visions (Mowry Baden; Keith Sklar: Joyce Lightbody; Stephen Hendee; Ken Price) Jan 2001
Art & Commerce (MOCA Brand Awareness campaign; Stephen Hendee at SMMOA; USPS
Celebrate The Century stamps) Jan 2001
2000
Ten Shows that Rocked My World (2000 Top Ten) Dec 2000
LACMA Soup
Scavenger Hunt
The McCarthy Era
Godawfulism
The Bruce Conner Story
If Not Now, Wha?
Double Helix
Trippy Guru and Tipper Too
Yuck!
Gender, Race
Eames-Scape
Crazy Summer
Print Ed
Redux: Mapplethorpe’s
Moment
Remix: Utopian Vision VS
American Dream
Blacklisted by Metallica
Pranks & Beans
It’s Chinatown
Freudian Slippers
Galleria
Tactical Embarrassment
Mounds
NunConformist
Barney’s Sticky Adventure
Beyond Death
Kids’ Stuff
Sue Spaid: Used & Amused
The Good Stuff
Blue Chips
1999
Holiday trimmings (review of Vallance, Roden, Ott, Calabrese, etc.) Dec 1999
Closures, Openings (review of Newkirk, Cook, Konitz, Smith) Nov 1999
The Big Nowhere (review of CLUI’s Nellis Range Tour) Nov 1999
Buddha! Buddha! Buddha! (review of Laurie Anderson, Tibetan Mandalas and Under 500) Oct 1999
Masters of Deceit (review of Oscar Wilde & J. Edgare Hoover) Oct 1999
Flower Power Games (profile of The Germinators) Sept 1999
Absolut Hot and Absolut Not (review of L.A. International) Aug 1999
X-Small (review of At the Threshold of the Visible) Aug 1999
Agitprop Masters (review of Stenberg Brothers) June 1999
Recline & Sprawl (review of FORMING: The Early Days of Punk) May 1999
Art for God’s Sake (profile of Post Millenial Fizzy) May 1999
Black Velvet Goldmine: The Artistic Legacy of Edgar Leeteg Mar 1999
The Art of the Blockbuster: Van Gogh’s Van Goghs Feb 1999
1998
The Charles Ray Experience: An interview with Charles Ray Dec 1998
Pos & Neg: The superficial glint of Sunshine & Noir Nov 1998
Picasso @ LACMA Oct 1998
Harbor Story (Sekula & Flick @ Getty) Aug 1998
It's a Big (Business) World (Disney Architecture @ Armand Hammer) May 1998
Out of Actions at MOCA Mar 1998
Mike Kelly at Patrick Painter Jan 1998
1997
No Direction: Bill Viola’s Art of Awareness Nov. 20 1997
