Martin Kippenberger in "The Role of a Lifetime"

David Robbins

The realm of the second place is the site of an exuberant proliferation of variety in the work of Martin Kippenberger.

Interview with John Baldessari (1973)

Moira Roth

In this extensive interview from the early part of his career, published in full for the first time, Baldessari talks about his views on Duchamp, language-as-readymade, teaching, and his artistic process.

Reading Jean-Michael Basquiat

Damon Willick

A retrospective exhibit at MOCA provides an opportunity to look beyond the legacy of 1980s art-world hype in reconsidering the work and mythic status of Basquiat.

End Games/Morris Louis

Sheperd Steiner

The re-hanging of a Clement Greenberg-curated Morris Louis exhibition provokes reflection on the curator's insights and the timeliness of the painter's project.

Third Pole: The Stills of Isaac Julien's True North

Nizan Shaked

Isaac Julien redresses an historical oversight in icy landscape photographs on display at the Mak Center, Los Angeles

Duck-Formal-Rabbit-Allegory

Christine Wertheim

An exhibition and book by Nicholas Lowie and Sheridan Lowrey propose a correspondence between Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Almost in Paradise

Eva Forgacs

Patty Chang brings her explorations of a budding, consumer-age Shangri-La to the UCLA Hammer Museum.

Artmaking in the Extreme Occident

Christopher James

An artist proposes a repositioned field of opportunities for artmaking in the West.

Micol Hebron

Cornelius and The Diplomats

A recount of a performative-portraiture event at which the writer commissioned the diplomats to draw a picture of her father.

Waiting for Bigfoot

Jill Miller