What can art teach us about happiness?

In recent years, the work of self-taught artists has come to be contextualized within larger narratives of contemporary art. How is Outsider Art best understood and what does this definition mean when ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ become blurred? How does it relate to fraught issues of education and exclusion, originality and exploitation? Jonathan Griffin invited Robert Gober, Matthew Higgs, Paul Laffoley and David Maclagan to discuss these questions

Celebrity culture, film studio design and the Hollywood dream

The story of Los Angeles-based artist Kaari Upson’s long-term ‘Larry Project’

Public performance and invisibility; social alienation and the artist’s role

Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

China Art Objects Gallery

Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, USA

From powerhouse institutions to tiny project spaces, LA’s dispersed art scene is flourishing

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Drawing connections between architectural models, painting and Utopian settlements in the work of Ian Kiaer

Various Venues, Glasgow, UK