Jonathan Griffin

Across two new exhibitions in Los Angeles, the polymath showcases work from the 1980s to the present that reveals a talismanic power

The 2022 edition of High Desert Test Sites, curated by Iwona Blazwick, sees the likes of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Jack Pierson scattered across the Californian desert

On the occasion of Liz Larner’s survey at Sculpture Center in New York, Jonathan Griffin looks closely at black iris (2021)

At Morán Morán’s new space in Los Angeles, the artist presents an array of makeshift objects that reveal the mutability of identity

Jonathan Griffin remembers the life and career of the Southern Californian artist whose multimedia work dealt with themes of trauma, selfhood, family and home

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

Contributing editor Jonathan Griffin on ageing and fallibility

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

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

A guide to the city’s autumn exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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

How an art magazine morphed into an international event

From an epic Rembrandt restoration and Charles White retrospective, to a trip to the Museum of Frogs, the best things ahead of us this year

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

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

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