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Travis Diehl

Travis Diehl is online editor at X-TRA. He is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism.

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

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At Matthew Marks, New York, the artist’s enigmatic marbles and projections perform a subtle excavation of the gallery’s architecture 

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Kilimnik’s subjects are nearly always brutal – murder, empire, war – and just as often delivered with a practiced detachment

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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

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Though it tactfully sidesteps the real politics of housing, ‘Landlord Colors’ offers an alternative model to the ‘development biennial’ 

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In her solo show at CCA Wattis, San Francisco, the artist invokes sports awards to critique our obsession with victory

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A series of sculptures shown at Jenny’s, Los Angeles, challenge traditional categories of art 

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An exhibition at House of Gaga / Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles shows cyborgian sculptures that are combos of mechanics and organic matter

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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

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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

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How dis.art blurs the lines between education, entertainment and commerce

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A wild weekend at the High Desert Test Sites festival 2017

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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, USA

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David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

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Western art and Mexican culture collide in the work of Eduardo Sarabia

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REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA

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Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, USA

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In the work of Rafa Esparza, colonialism, family history and sex collide with the landscape of Los Angeles 

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Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA

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Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA

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