"Drawings exploring weather systems, emotions, dream states, and perception complete this complex and enlightening show, the German conceptual artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, but most likely not her last."

Though both from Guyana, South America, and later landing individually in London, England, the works of Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling have never been exhibited together until now. Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling celebrates both artists and their contributions to late-20th-century abstract painting. See works from Williams’ Shostakovich and Olmec-Maya and Now series, plus paintings from Bowling’s popular Map series, and his later poured paintings, which nod to sociopolitical concerns. This exhibition is the inaugural presentation of the Modern’s new Platform initiative, which strives to show how artists and art histories across the world are connected.

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has released the full list of artists participating in the 36th São Paulo Bienal, which opens September 6th and runs through January 11, 2026. Titled Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, the exhibition will feature 120 participants, including Dominican artist Firelei Báez, British painter Frank Bowling, Nigerian American artist Precious Okoyomon, and Chinese artist Song Dong. The Bienal will take place at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion located in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park.

"Richard Misrach’s publication Cargo (Aperture, 2025) is a timely collection of photographs that explores the evolving presence and significance of cargo ships. Captured on the San Francisco Bay between 2021 and 2024, each photograph includes at least one cargo ship—sometimes clearly visible, other times partially or completely obscured by fog. While the photographs beautifully capture the changing weather and light on the Bay, they also invite reflection on the shifting dynamics of global trade and labor."

Purchase at Arcana: arcanabooks.com

A brand new example of this striking, beautifully illustrated hardbound catalogue – the first major work in English – on an artist whose artworld recognition and reappraisal is long overdue.

This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives... Akinsanya Kambon’s ceramic vessels draw on the vast Black diaspora, informed by his own life experience as a Black Panther and travels to Africa. 

Los Angeles, a city where dreams are made, destroyed, or both. That is the subject of a show of work by the preeminent Chicano artist Carlos Almaraz now on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art. It may be that place—where things happen—is as important as time in the unfolding of history.

Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation, known for his haunting, large-scale images of the American West. His work captures both the region’s breathtaking beauty and the profound ways humans have altered the landscape. His photographs are housed in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Getty—but for Misrach, they serve a deeper purpose: creating a historical record. Here are his songs.

LOS ANGELES — Scientia Sexualis at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles takes its name from Michel Foucault’s term for the 19th-century study of sexuality, and uses the colonizing and pathologizing of the non-White and non-male body in this exploitative “science” as its jumping off point. Part of the Getty Foundation’s initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition includes 27 artists who approach bodily autonomy or lack thereof from various perspectives. Works range from painted elegies for gay men lost to AIDS (Joey Terrill) to drawings made of menstrual blood (Xandra Ibarra) to a video offering new age-y comic relief (Nao Bustamante), and much more. 

Participants describe a ‘much-needed boost’ to the LA community and a vital moment for the international art world, with major sales across the fair.

Mel Bochner, an artist who produced heady and often witty work in a multitude of mediums, exploring the boundaries of art — and the power of language — in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, books, installations and public art, died on Feb. 12 in Manhattan. He was 84.

How to Spend a Day at Frieze Los Angeles From a performance of Senegalese drumming to an artist’s egg hunt and immersive solo projects, get the most from your visit to this year’s fair

Fair presentations, onsite projects, Frieze Week gallery shows and institutional exhibitions foregrounding Black history across Los Angeles

Michelle Uckotter, who burst onto the art scene with eerie paintings, will debut her first film during concurrent shows in Los Angeles in February.

From William Leavitt's cyborg visions to Uri Aran’s immersive installation, CULTURED highlights the city's best shows this month.

Stromberg writes, "Gothic Electronica is a two-gallery, 50-year survey of the work of William Leavitt, whose multi-media practice draws from Hollywood, film, mass media, and the landscape of Southern California. Narrative is a running theme in his work, which often blurs the line between theater and fine art. His early photo montages of the 1970s recall film stills, and his installations incorporating light and sound resemble stage sets, notably “Gothic Curtain” (1970/2008), which conjures the unsettling tone of the 1958 British film Dracula. More recent work includes paintings rife with robots, cyborgs, and other man-machine mashups, mixing mid-century space-age futurism with contemporary notions of technological hybridity."

Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Linda Alterwitz for Lenscratch, September 2024

The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical. Highlights include Channing Hansen’s fiber works featured in a solo presentation at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and in Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific Rim organized by Fulcrum Arts and presented at Chapman University, a group show centering artists working with sound, vibration and kinetics.

Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Fiona Perkocha for Musée Magazine, July 2024

Writer Jody Zellen's 'Pick of the Week' for What's on LA is Richard Misrach: Dancing with Nature at Marc Selwyn Fine Art. 

As an artist, activist, and health educator, Terrill emerged in the ’70s, actively participating in the gay liberation and Chicano movements. At a time when these worlds felt disparate, Terrill worked to bridge the gap between them, tenderly humanizing what it meant to be Chicano and gay and later what it meant to live through the AIDS/HIV crisis and memorialize fallen loved ones. He did so through community-focused work and his art. Through canvas, zines, and mail art, he blends his lived experiences with a DIY ethic, pop-inflected forms, humor, and irreverence.

Joey Terrill’s Windows Into Queer Chicano Life “I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June.

Judy Zellen reviews Allen Ruppersberg: 25 Ways to Start Over.

William Moreno reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here. 

Art critic David S. Rubin reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here in Hyperallergic. 

A profile of artist Joey Terrill featured in the Los Angeles Times by Carolina A. Miranda

Lee Bontecou and Michelle Stuart exhibition review in Carla Issue 26

"As several shows of his work open, the artist talks about the distinctive transatlantic influences on his art, the role of politics, and art for art's sake."

"The Guyanese-English artist Frank Bowling is getting a long-awaited retrospective at Tate Britain."

"Frank Bowling’s West Coast solo debut is two shows in one.

The first covers the years 1968 to 1979, just after Bowling moved from London to New York, where he set up his studio and began to exhibit regularly. His increasingly large, increasingly abstract canvases made a mess of the idea that painting had to be one of two things: either a rigorously formal exercise exclusively concerned with color, shape and texture, or an autobiographical account of its maker’s life, particularly if he was not white.

Bowling’s works are both. And more. A whole lot more."

"He graduated from art school second only to David Hockney then gave up on the British art scene. Frank Bowling on pigeonholes, prejudice and waiting for that really big show"

By Jori Finkel

Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Review by Michael Ned Holte in ArtForum

April 2008, VOL. 46, NO. 8