Contributor
Jonathan Griffin

Jonathan Griffin is a writer based in Los Angeles, USA, and a contributing writer at frieze.

Touching on themes of gender politics, music, literature, figuration and appropriationist irony, Jonathan Griffin traces the life and work of the 2021 Aspen Award for Art Honoree

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At Overduin & Co, a new cycle of paintings inspired by myth, Mondrian and loss is at once impressive and somehow lacking

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Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

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How Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photographs documented a radical art movement

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Contributing editor Jonathan Griffin on ageing and fallibility

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‘New Images of Man’, curated by Alison Gingeras at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, is ‘part homage, part radical revision’ of the eponymous exhibition

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In collaborations with her community and family, Halsey leans towards the funky, the funny and the queer

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A guide to the city’s autumn exhibitions

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The works on paper at Parker Gallery, in Los Angeles, ‘encounter memories, fantasies and dream images along the way’

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The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’ 

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At Nasher Sculpture Center, the prolific artist’s solo exhibition chafes at the history of Western modernism

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Despite a soaring performance at the Dallas Museum of Art, the self-taught artist is still too often treated as an outsider

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Ancestral knowledge and utopian thinking lend power to a sometimes uneven exhibition 

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How an art magazine morphed into an international event

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An exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles, creates a trans-historical dialogue between Farber’s works and a generation of artists he influenced

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‘It was exactly the right thing at exactly the right time’

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An exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, sheds new light on colonialist patterns and projections 

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At LA-based non-profit space JOAN, works by local artists Walter Askin, Elizabeth Bain and Sandra Vista embody theatricality in all its forms

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From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities

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