Bruce Nauman’s pensive Conceptual art from the 1970s seems timely again

Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that caused great consternation when first shown at an annual purchase competition at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, south of … Read more

Appreciation: Joe Goode (1937-2025)

Painter Joe Goode died peacefully at home Saturday, one day before his 88th birthday The artist, an Oklahoma transplant, was instrumental in establishing the lively Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s Visual image and material object are held in equipoise in Goode’s paintings, which range from milk bottles on the front stoop to clouds … Read more

A modern Stonehenge rises in Desert Hot Springs: Here are the standouts in Desert X 2025

Desert X, the biennial exhibition of site-related installation art commissioned for varied locations in and around Palm Springs, continues to shrink. From 16 artists for the inaugural in 2017, and the same number (plus three collectives) two years later, subsequent iterations have gotten steadily smaller. Just 11 artists are participating in the latest version, with … Read more