Travis Diehl is a writer based in Los Angeles, USA, and is a recipient of the Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.
At Bel Ami, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings take a satirical look at the grisly history of American bigotry against US Asian populations
The artist on her proposed New Monument for Franska Tomten and how minimalist aesthetics speak to the complex history of Sweden’s colonial past
The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession
Conceptual artist Patrick Jackson presents a series of photographs and glass shelves that riff on modernism and minimalism
The artist’s online game, ‘Screen Talk’, satirizes the bad politics and fake news muddling responses to COVID-19
From ‘a coven of witches’ at Deitch Projects to the ‘totemic roughness’ of Huma Bhabha at David Kordansky Gallery, our critic’s guide to Los Angeles
At Matthew Marks, New York, the artist’s enigmatic marbles and projections perform a subtle excavation of the gallery’s architecture
Kilimnik’s subjects are nearly always brutal – murder, empire, war – and just as often delivered with a practiced detachment
There is a place for evidentiary art – but not for Kenneth Goldsmith’s print-out of 62,000 pages of the former US Secretary of State’s correspondence
Though it tactfully sidesteps the real politics of housing, ‘Landlord Colors’ offers an alternative model to the ‘development biennial’
In her solo show at CCA Wattis, San Francisco, the artist invokes sports awards to critique our obsession with victory
A series of sculptures shown at Jenny’s, Los Angeles, challenge traditional categories of art
An exhibition at House of Gaga / Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles shows cyborgian sculptures that are combos of mechanics and organic matter
The artist’s retrospective, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston at ICA LA, shows how thin the line is between artist and art worker
For the 2018 edition of the biennial, it’s as if artists feel the need to resolve situations formally where they can’t be resolved for real
How dis.art blurs the lines between education, entertainment and commerce
A wild weekend at the High Desert Test Sites festival 2017
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, USA
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Western art and Mexican culture collide in the work of Eduardo Sarabia
