Up this month at LAX/ART is a group show combining two non profit art spaces, New York’s Participant Inc. and Los Angeles’s LAX/ART. Curated by Participant’s Lia Gangitano, the show thoughtfully exhibits the work of artist Laura Parnes with the duo Lovett/Codagnone. Parnes’ video installation, titled County Down, takes from the aesthetics of traditional horror movies [...]
Author Archives: Robin Newman
The Fist is Still Up
June 20, 2011 – 8:59 am
In conjunction with his month-long residency at The New Museum, Wu Tsang’s New York solo debut is showing at Clifton Benevento. The exhibit features work based on Tsang’s experiences with the Silver Platter, a Los Angeles bar that serves a community of predominately trans Latina women, and where Tsang also co-organized the performance night/party Wildness. He [...]
Greater LA
May 19, 2011 – 10:46 am
The show Greater LA brings the work of over fifty young and emerging Los Angeles-based artists across the country to New York City. The exhibition presents a vast and diverse selection of work, held together by the shared geography from which it was born. Sculpture, painting, photography and video are all represented. Stand-outs include Matt [...]
Thanks For Explaining Me
May 11, 2011 – 9:16 am
On Friday night Gladstone Gallery opened Thanks for Explaining Me, an exhibit of the work of the late artist and filmmaker Jack Smith. Smith is a seminal figure in the history of queer and experimental film who was largely ignored by the established art world during his lifetime. The exhibition presents 12 recently restored films as [...]
