THE Magazine - Los Angeles

Young uses extreme action as generative force; he records the traces of these actions in videos, drawing, painting, sculpture and photographs. The final work of art is often the after-effect of some dynamic, energetic, or even dangerous performance. Young's participants are classic rebels, such as skateboarders and motorcycle riders, hired to perform various stunts on specially prepared supports in spectacular settings such as Greeting Card at the Park Avenue Armory, New York in 2007 and Arc Light at the Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow in 2008....more info

Uta Barth, Larry Bell, Gregory Crewdson, Roe Ethridge, Faile, Jacob Kassay, Mike Kelley, Monica Majoli, Adam McEwen, Allison Miller, Kori Newkirk, Enoc Perez, Seth Price, Rob Reynolds, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Taryn Simon, Robert Therrien, Piotr Uklañski, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol ...more info

In this body of work spanning over four years, Taryn Simon confronts the obstacles facing public access to expert knowledge by offering entry, via photography to a selection of restricted or rarely discovered sites across the United States....more info

An exhibition of new sculpture. ...more info

Burden juxtaposes an historical work with a new one in an ongoing exploration of the duality that underlies much of his ar...more info

This exhibition presents several new works intended to trigger the organic responses that underpin the structure of learned behavior, to unbalance the rational mind....more info

An exhibition of new photographs and sculpture by John Waters. ...more info

The centerpiece of the Los Angeles exhibition is Kusama's new and exuberant sculptural ensemble Flowers that Bloom at Midnight (2009)....more info

In Lutter's conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the most rudimentary form of photography, the apparatus records in a very direct and immediate way what exists in the world outside. By choosing to retain the negative image, she transforms the visual facts of her chosen environments into uncanny scenes that reflect on the two principal realities of time and space....more info

In these new paintings Dalwood explores a rather morbid fascination the death scenarios of famous public figures both real and fictional....more info

Jeff Koons was born in York, PA in 1955. He obtained a B.F.A at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, and also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed "idea man," Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: "Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is." ...more info