2024
“Corky Lee’s Asian America: 50 Years of Photographic Justice” Bomb
“Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia” Hyperallergic
2023
“In the Mix: Some Thoughts on Japanese Pop Culture and Contemporary Art,” See You Space Cowboy…From Hokusai to Hiphop (catalog), San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery, September 23 – October 20, 2023
Dialogue between J P 제피 and Sharon Mizota on the role of spirituality in contemporary art
“Sculptor Kenzi Shiokava was a distinctly L.A. artist. A posthumous exhibit shows why” Los Angeles Times
“Appreciation: Beloved artist and professor Jim Melchert taught us the value of paying attention” Los Angeles Times
“At the Japanese American National Museum, a Book Becomes a Monument” Hyperallergic
2022
Reviews
“Fugitive Practice: Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye Reviewed,” Bomb, March 16, 2022
Features
“How L.A. artist Kelly Akashi’s work evokes tangled feelings about impermanence” Los Angeles Times
“L.A. artists offer personal lens on Asian American diaspora in new ‘Off Kilter’ show” Los Angeles Times
2020
Reviews
“‘Womxn in Windows,’ a Chinatown video art show made for this moment” Los Angeles Times
“The new AR app that puts you in the room with Cate Blanchett” (Marco Brambilla) Los Angeles Times
“Kielbasa-shaped glass sculpture and other provocations from the late Miyoshi Barosh” Los Angeles Times
“Hank Willis Thomas, Tomashi Jackson and a different kind of color theory” Los Angeles Times
Features
USC Pacific Asia Museum Decolonizes Its Collections, Artbound, KCET
How Artists Are Nurturing Their Creativity Under Lockdown, Artbound, KCET
COVID-19 and Anti-Racism Movements Create New Urgency for Working Artists, Artbound, KCET
Forced to Close Their Doors, Art Galleries Embrace Online Exhibitions, Artbound, KCET
2019
“Art-hopping in L.A.’s Arlington Heights: A guide to a less-beaten gallery path” (Karolina Maszkiewicz, John Zappas, “California Winter,” Rodney McMillian) Los Angeles Times
Theaster Gates, Los Angeles Times
Jebila Okongwu, Los Angeles Times
Shikeith, Los Angeles Times
“Bad Ass Bitches of the Getty” Los Angeles Times
“A walker’s guide to gallery hopping along Highland Avenue” (Robin F. Williams, Francisco Rodriguez, Rebecca Shippee, Jon Key, Julian Stanczak) Los Angeles Times
Club Scum, Los Angeles Times
Susan Mogul, Los Angeles Times
“Please Recall to Me Everything You Have Thought of” Los Angeles Times
Brandon Landers, Los Angeles Times
“Narrative Painting in Los Angeles” Los Angeles Times
“Where the Sea Remembers” Los Angeles Times
Hanna Hur, Los Angeles Times
Francesca Longhini, Los Angeles Times
Gabriella Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
Maria Berrio, Los Angeles Times
David Hammons, Los Angeles Times
Fahamu Pecou, Los Angeles Times
Joanne Greenbaum, Los Angeles Times
Graciela Iturbide, Los Angeles Times
Laura Lancaster, Los Angeles Times
Human Archipelago (book review) Los Angeles Times
Cayetano Ferrer, Los Angeles Times
“People” Los Angeles Times
Lisa Solomon, Los Angeles Times
Sara Kathryn Arledge, Los Angeles Times
“Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s” (Tsuyoshi Ozawa) Los Angeles Times
Rona Pondick, Los Angeles Times
Sun Seekers: The Cure of California (book review) Los Angeles Times
Farrah Karapetian, Los Angeles Times
Amoako Boafo, Los Angeles Times
Lee Quinones, Los Angeles Times
2018
Hannah Epstein, Los Angeles Times
Catherine Opie, Los Angeles Times
Judith Linhares, Los Angeles Times
“Sweat lodge, Audre Lorde, magical holograms: Three stellar art shows that pull you to another place” (Martin Soto Climent, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Simone Forti) Los Angeles Times
Nicole Eisenman, Los Angeles Times
Katherine Sherwood, Los Angeles Times
Brie Ruais, Los Angeles Times
“The Feminine Sublime” Los Angeles Times
Junghwa Hong, Los Angeles Times
Michael Gittes, Los Angeles Times
Ken Okiishi, Los Angeles Times
Deborah Roberts, Los Angeles Times
Mimi Lauter, Los Angeles Times
Daniel Silva, Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Los Angeles Times
Kirsten Tradowsky, Los Angeles Times
Todd Gray, Los Angeles Times
Forrest Kirk, Los Angeles Times
Young Joo Lee, Los Angeles Times
“Remote Castration” Los Angeles Times
Jonny Negron, Los Angeles Times
Kazuo Kadonaga, Los Angeles Times
Hayv Kahraman, Los Angeles Times
Alex Jackson, Los Angeles Times
Klea McKenna, Los Angeles Times
Eleanor Swordy, Los Angeles Times
Laub, Los Angeles Times
Channa Horwitz, Los Angeles Times
Raúl de Nieves, Los Angeles Times
Jemima Wyman, Los Angeles Times
Buckminster Fuller, Los Angeles Times
George Rouy, Los Angeles Times
“Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented” Los Angeles Times
Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945(book review) Los Angeles Times
2017
Reviews
Zarouhie Abdalian, Los Angeles Times
Ryosuke Yazaki, Los Angeles Times
Farah Atassi, Los Angeles Times
Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles Times
Anna Fasshauer, Los Angeles Times
Benjamin Weissman, Los Angeles Times
Cindy Bernard, Los Angeles Times
Lezley Saar, Los Angeles Times
Heather Rasmussen, Los Angeles Times
14th Factory, Los Angeles Times
Lia Halloran, Los Angeles Times
Stanya Kahn, Los Angeles Times
Klara Liden, Los Angeles Times
Kevin Appel, Los Angeles Times
York Chang and Justin Cole, Los Angeles Times
Chadwick Rantanen, Los Angeles Times
Jason Rhoades, Los Angeles Times
Olga Balema, Los Angeles Times
Iris Hu, Los Angeles Times
Taravat Talepasand, Los Angeles Times
Antonia Wright, Los Angeles Times
Letters to Andy Warhol, Los Angeles Times
Features
Ghost Towns, Rodrigo Valenzuela: Journeyman (catalog)
2016
Reviews
Kelly Akashi, Los Angeles Times
Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles Times
Mickalene Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler” Los Angeles Times
Thomas Hirschhorn, Los Angeles Times
Elana Mann, Los Angeles Times
Lari Pittman, Los Angeles Times
Andrea Buttner, Los Angeles Times
Srijon Chowdhury, Los Angeles Times
Rodney McMillian, Los Angeles Times
Ry Rocklen, Los Angeles Times
3 Women, Los Angeles Times
“Photography and Language” Los Angeles Times
“Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish!” Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Tam, Los Angeles Times
Francoise Grossen, Los Angeles Times
Alexis Smith, Los Angeles Times
Betty Tompkins, Los Angeles Times
“Eternal” Los Angeles Times
Features
Ten sentences about the work of Daniel Joseph Martinez, Wasteland (catalog)
2015
Reviews
At the Broad Museum, All is Vanity, The New Republic, September 30, 2015
Ginny Bishton, Los Angeles Times
Gyung Jin Shin, Los Angeles Times
David Haxton, Los Angeles Times
Diana Al-Hadid, Los Angeles Times
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, Los Angeles Times
Mernet Larsen, Los Angeles Times
Sergei Tcherepnin, Los Angeles Times
James O. Clark, Los Angeles Times
Betty Woodman, Los Angeles Times
Vivian Suter, Los Angeles Times
Hung Liu, Los Angeles Times
Devin Kenny, Los Angeles Times
Kon Trubkovich, Los Angeles Times
Renee Green, Los Angeles Times
Laura Krifka, Los Angeles Times
Micah Ganske, Los Angeles Times
2014
Charles Ray, Los Angeles Times
Amy Adler, Los Angeles Times
Paul Pescador, Los Angeles Times
Howard Friedman, Los Angeles Times
Mie Olise, Los Angeles Times
Rafaël Rozendaal, Los Angeles Times
Canan Tolon, Los Angeles Times
Robert Heinecken, Los Angeles Times
Penelope Umbrico, Los Angeles Times
Bruce Richards, Los Angeles Times
Erin Besler, Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Boysen, Los Angeles Times
Matthew Ronay, Los Angeles Times
Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles Times
Stan VanDerBeek, Los Angeles Times
“Soft Target” Los Angeles Times
Marcus Herse, Los Angeles Times
Ray Johnson (book review) Los Angeles Times
Allora & Calzadilla, Los Angeles Times
Daniel von Sturmer, Los Angeles Times
Tony Greene, Los Angeles Times
Robert Swain, Los Angeles Times
Chris Engman, Los Angeles Times
Megan Cotts, Los Angeles Times
2013
Reviews
My Barbarian, Artforum.com
Los Angeles Times
Features
Everything is Illuminated: Extra-Illustrated Books at The Huntington, Artbound, KCET, July 22, 2013
Sam Durant’s Social Media Movement: What #isamuseum?, Artbound, KCET, July 11, 2013
Community’s the Thing: Susan Silton Examines the Power of Names, Artbound, KCET, May 30, 2013
Once More, With Feeling: Stephen Prina’s History Paintings, Artbound, KCET, April 25, 2013
Trisha Brown: Dance in the Museum, Artbound, KCET, March 28, 2013
Costume Drama: Rubens and Korea, ARTNews, March 6, 2013
Catherine Opie: From the Outside In, Artbound, KCET, February 24, 2013
Art Meets Literature in L.A.’s Indie Presses, Artbound, KCET, January 30, 2013
2012
Reviews
Kelly Poe, Artforum.com
Art Therapy (Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 25, 2012
Los Angeles Times
Andra Ursuta
Facing the Sublime in Water, CA
“Acirema”
Roger Hiorns
“Synesthesia”
PST, A to Z, 2011-2012
“Pacific Standard Time” was a 6-month program of 69 museum and gallery exhibitions sponsored by the Getty to explore the history of art in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980. In the series “PST, A to Z” I visited and wrote about all of them for the Los Angeles Times.
One person’s quest to see it all
‘Asco’ and ‘Edward Kienholz’ at LACMA
Maria Nordman, ‘Film Room: Smoke’ at LACMA
‘Beatrice Wood: Career Woman’ at Santa Monica museum
“California Art” at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
“MEX/LA” at the Museum of Latin American Art
‘Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987’ at UAM CSULB
De Wain Valentine’s ‘Gray Column’ at the Getty Center
‘Golden’ and ‘June’ at Craft and Folk Art Museum (June Schwarz)
‘Los Angeles Goes Live’ at LACE
‘Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo,’ Fowler Museum
‘Indoor Ecologies’ at Eames House and ‘California Design’ at LACMA
‘Eames’ at A+D Museum, ‘Sympathetic’ at MAK Center (Esther McCoy)
‘Now Dig This!’ and ‘Places of Validation’
‘Doin’ It in Public,’ ‘Collaboration Labs’
‘Greetings from L.A.,’ ‘CrossCurrents’ at the Getty Center
‘Seismic Shift’ at California Museum of Photography
Moments to remember, so far (Midterm report)
‘L.A. Rebellion’ at UCLA Film & Television Archive
‘She Accepts the Proposition,’ ‘It Happened at Pomona’
‘Identity and Affirmation’ at CSUN Art Galleries
‘Alternative Projections’ at L.A. Filmforum
‘Exchange and Evolution’ at Long Beach Museum of Art
‘Craft Revolution’ at Mingei and ‘Phenomenal’ at MCASD
‘The Radicalization of a ‘50s Housewife,’ ‘Best Kept Secret’ (Barbara Smith, UCI)
‘Mapping Another L.A.,’ at Fowler Museum, ‘Mural Remix’ at LACMA
‘Art Along the Hyphen’ at the Autry
‘Speaking in Tongues’ at Armory Center for the Arts (Wallace Berman, Robert Heinecken)
’46 N. Los Robles’ at Pacific Asia, ‘Proof’ at Norton Simon
PST, A to Z: ‘Under the Big Black Sun,’ ‘Naked Hollywood’ at MOCA (Weegee)
‘Artistic Evolution,’ ‘The Experimental Impulse’
‘Everyman’s Infinite Art’ at Chapman University
‘Civic Virtue’ at LA Municipal Art Gallery and Watts Towers Arts Center
The House That Sam Built,’ ‘In Words and Wood’
‘It Happened at Pomona Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona’
‘Common Ground’ at AMOCA, ‘Clay’s Tectonic Shift’ at Scripps
‘Round the Clock’ at Vincent Price Art Museum
‘Pasadena to Santa Barbara’ at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
‘Cruising’ at One National Gay and Lesbian Archives
‘Perceptual Conceptual’ at Los Angeles Nomadic Division
‘L.A. Raw’ at Pasadena Museum of California Art
‘Backyard Oasis’ at Palm Springs Art Museum
‘Breaking Ground’ at Chinese American Museum
‘Carefree California: Cliff May’ and ‘Catherine Opie’
‘Trouble in Paradise’ at Grammy Museum
‘It Happened at Pomona Part 3: At Pomona’ at Pomona College Museum of Art
Features
Ken Gonzales-Day Re-Examines Violence, Race, and Identity, Artbound, KCET, November 28, 2012
Ken Price’s Fantastic, Idiosyncratic Blobs, Artbound, KCET, October 14, 2012
Unfaithful Copies: Liz Glynn’s ‘Ancient’ Artifacts, Artbound, KCET, October 2, 2012
The Space Between: Gina Osterloh’s “Shadow” Residency at LACE, Artbound, KCET, August 5, 2012
The Quixotic Videos of Steve Roden, Artbound, KCET, July 2, 2012
Celebrity vs Culture: The James Franco-fication of Art World, Artbound, KCET, June 3, 2012
Art in the San Gabriel Valley: Where is It?, Artbound, KCET, May 14, 2012
2011
Reviews
“Woman with a Lute” by Johannes Vermeer
“We’re Not Here to Waste Time!”
“My Super Hero: New Contemporary Art from Iran”
Features
Tomiko Jones, Justine Reyes, Kyohei Abe, Nueva Luz, Vol. 15, No. 2
Steve Martin and Dave Hickey at LACMA: Talking about art was fine with this audience, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2011
2010
Reviews
Pae White: In Between the Inside-Out, X-TRA, Vol 12, No. 3
Alexandra Grant, Artforum.com
Robin Rhode, Artforum.com
Los Angeles Times
“Stille Post: 7 Curators 7 Artists”
“Document: Iranian Americans in L.A.”
“The art that dare not speak its name”
“Somewhere On a Desert Highway”
Breaking the Rules: What is Contemporary Art? (book review)
“Beyond the Page: Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan”
“Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention”
Leonor Antunes and Amalia Pica
Features
Mel Chin’s “Fundred Dollar Bill Project”
“Thinking past the museum gallery white box”
“Goal of LACMA’s redesign is to have architecture serve the art”
2009
Reviews
Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, X-TRA, Vol. 11, No. 4
“Your Bright Future: Twelve Contemporary Artists from Korea,” Artforum.com
Katherine Gray, Artforum.com
Angel Delgado, Artforum.com
Los Angeles Times
“Everyday Miracles (Extended)”
“Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies”
Features
Diane Meyer’s “Without a Car in the World”, Los Angeles Times
Sandow Birk’s “American Qur’an”, Los Angeles Times
Joanna Priestley, Los Angeles Times
“Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.”, Los Angeles Times
Llyn Foulkes’ Machine, Los Angeles Times
Rania Matar, Lisdebertus a.k.a. Luis Delgado, and Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig, Nueva Luz, Vol. 13, No. 3
2008
Reviews
Artforum.com
Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielcynzska
Los Angeles Times
“Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now”
“Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art”
“Social Histories Woven into Indonesian Textiles at LACMA”
Anthony Goicolea, Jon Brumit, Zachary Royer Scholz and Carter Mull
Amanda Ross-Ho, Dorit Cypis, Brenna Youngblood and Sarah Cromarty
Cindy Stelmackowich, “Desertshore,” Alexandra Grant, Kerry James Marshall
Features
Edgar Arceneaux and The Watts House Project, Artforum
Los Angeles Times
“The California Biennial Spreads Out”
“Indian Art: unique yet mainstream”
“Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times”
2007
Reviews
Artforum.com
Features
2006
Reviews
SF Weekly
“The Dust Never Settles” and Shomei Tomatsu, July 26, 2006
Timothy Nolan and Liu Xiaodong, June 28, 2006
Walter Kitundu, May 31, 2006
Vik Muniz, April 26, 2006
Hank Willis Thomas, Leo Valledor, “Under the Crooked Bough, We Stopped to Catch Our Breath,” March 29, 2006
Julie Mehretu, February 22, 2006
Taro Hattori, “Dispersed: African Legacy/New World Reality,” Kota Ezawa, and Rachel Weeks, January 25, 2006
2005
Reviews
SF Weekly
Andrew Junge, December 28, 2005
Makoto Aida, November 30, 2005
“Art in the Balance: A sneak peek at the new de Young reveals a rethinking of museum ideas,” September 28, 2005
“Reality in Abstract: Three very different photographers delve into documentary and artifice,”(Philip Kwame Apagya, Uta Barth, Eirik Johnson), June 29, 2005
Tracey Snelling, April 27, 2005
Sui Jianguo, March 30, 2005
2004
Features
Yoshitomo Nara, San Jose Metro, July 21-27, 2004