Tom Teicholz

LA Louver, the Venice, California art gallery known for its exhibition of such well-known artists as David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj, and Ed and Nancy Kienholz, as well as contemporary artists such as Alison Saar, Gajin Fujita, and Rebecca Campbell, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
“It’s been a fabulous incredible journey,” LA Louver’s founder Peter Goulds told me recently.
Long devoted “to showing Los Angeles based artists in an international context,” LA Louver is commemorating this landmark...

or almost 30 years, the artist Lita Albuquerque and her family lived in a multi-structure compound on a four-acre Malibu hilltop. It was where she and her husband, Carey Peck, had raised their children. It was where she had built a studio as well as a structure to house an archive that documented her work: the land art; the conceptual and performance art; and the drawings, paintings, and sculptures that made her a significant figure in Southern California’s Light and Space movement, which eme...

Photo by Joshua White/JWPictures.com, courtesy of The Broad

Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place at me at The Broad Museum through September 28, 2025. is the culmination of many firsts: In 2024, Gibson was the first Indigenous American to represent the U.S. as a solo artist at the Venice Biennale. The Broad exhibition, which brings the Venice exhibition to Los Angeles, reconfiguring and adding to it, is also Gibson’s first solo Southern California museum exhibition.

Gibson’s work offer...

The visionary behind Rappi and now Tako, is building the operating system for the Pan American century.
What are the qualities of enduring companies, enterprises that can survive technology’s creative destruction and the waves of progress that disrupt industries? Sebastian Mejia knows what it takes.
Mejia is a co-founder of Rappi, an app that provides both delivery services and a local commerce ecosystem throughout Latin America. He also launched Tako in 2023 in Brazil as a workforce manageme...

Doug Aitken, the polymedia multidisciplinary artist whose work can seem deceptively simple or so multilayered in its complexity as to be difficult to fathom, has a new work, Lightscape, a one hour immersive film and music installation, on view at the Marciano Art Foundation, as well as paintings, sculptures and installations that have grown out of the project on exhibit at Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
Having spent time at both in the company of Aitken as my Virgil, I appreciate the extent t...

Outdoor artworks, land art, site-specific installations speak to a tradition that exists outside museums and galleries, that is accessible and available to all willing to travel to a given destination, and which in many cases intervene in complimentary and contrasting ways with the environment.
DesertX 2025, taking place in the Coachella Valley (i.e. the greater Palm Springs area) March 8 through, May 11, features 11 artists who have created work for specific locations throughout the valley. ...

Trees are having a moment. There was Richard Powers “The Overstory,” a slim novel where the point of view of a tree was as much a character as the human ones. There was Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg’s recent exhibition at the Skirball (now moved on to new pastures, see here). More generally, scientists continue to explore how trees communicate with each other and the pathways they create through root networks and airborne transfers. And currently, there is Charles Gaines’ magisterial new wo...

One of the most thrilling shows I’ve seen recently is Mary Corse at Pace Gallery LA on view through August 16, 2025.
Corse, who recently turned 80, has been an LA artist most of her life, having attended Chouinard Art School (which became CalArts) in the early 1960s and living and working in Los Angeles ever since.
At a time when so much contemporary art is figurative, and abstract work tends to the fantastical or psychedelic, Corse’s new work reminds us of the rigor, discipline, and inquiry ...

Lisa Yuskavage’s exhibition at David Zwirner LA, her first in Los Angeles in 29 years (which just closed on April 12), was a revelation.

The exhibition consisted of some twenty new works that are original, clever, funny, and, in many cases, in conversation with her earlier works and influences. “The more you know my work,” Yuskavage said, the more you can spot the references and easter eggs she’s placed there.

The majority of these works take place in an imagined art studio (inspired by a pho...

“The superstructure is the structure,” said Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) of the new Peter Zumthor-designed building that recently opened for a press preview. There is no art in the building yet, and the official opening isn’t until April 2026, but Govan wanted a moment of celebration for the completion of this 110,000 square feet gallery with no columns for which three of LACMA’s original buildings were demolished, and which snakes across Wilshire B...

Someone told me, a long time ago, that a journalist seeing something occur once believes it’s random: twice, it’s a coincidence; and three times, the journalist will declare it a trend.
With that in mind, I’ve noticed that I’m seeing a lot more art exhibitions held in the public areas of hotels and luxury stores.
So, for example, a while back, David van Eyssen had works in the lobby of the La Peer Hotel. Currently, The Dream Hotel in Hollywood has a wall of curated digital art; I recently rec...

Last summer, when writer/curator/singer/performer Mashonda Tifrere, who had moved to San Diego in 2020, met Jess Berlanga Taylor, Director and Curator of the Stuart Collection, she felt she had finally found her art family. Together, they have launched Inscape, a new audio guide project that brings together Mashonda’s passions for Art and for Wellness.
The Stuart Collection includes works by Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Niki de Saint Phalle, Do Ho Suh, Elizabeth Murray, Mark Bradford, Jenny ...

Alchemy was the attempt to transform base metals into gold. Lauren Bon’s art asks us to consider the ways we can re-think, reuse, and revitalize the infrastructure of our cities and our landscapes, revealing the fluid and the regenerative in the concrete. Literally.
Concrete is Fluid, now on view at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, is a gallery show of artworks derived from Bon’s own Metabolic Studio projects which involve an intervention in the LA River and the reuse of the concrete, soi...

I’ve been going to Aspen since I was a teenager. At first, it was just for the skiing. Then I discovered that, as is true with most ski resorts, there is more to do there in the summer.
Over the years, summer in Aspen has grown to have a dizzying array of activities, from seminars at the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Food & Wine Classic, the Aspen Museum AIR Festival, to name but a few of the summer events. With summer, hiking, biking, dining and ...

Getty Trust Honors Annie Philbin
Ann Philbin, who during her 25-year tenure built the Hammer into the contemporary art mecca it is today, has been chosen by the J. Paul Getty Trust as this year’s Getty Prize recipient.
Past recipients include Lord Jacob Rothschild, Frank Gehry and Mark Bradford. Beginning with Bradford the Prize has included a $500,000 donation from the Getty Trust to the charity or non-profit of the awardee’s choice. Annie Philbin has selected NPR, KCRW, and LAist as grant r...