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.
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
REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, USA
In the work of Rafa Esparza, colonialism, family history and sex collide with the landscape of Los Angeles
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Jenny’s, Los Angeles, USA
356 Mission, Los Angeles, USA
