Troika - Wallpaper

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Much contemporary art (though perhaps all art, always) has trust issues. It asks us to question what we think trustworthy. Take Troika's 'Limits of a Known Territory', a site-specific installation currently on display at NC-arte in Bogotá.

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Wallace Berman - Frieze

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For a brief few weeks around the close of 2014, it felt as if you could divide your acquaintances into two groups: those who were listening to Serial and those who were not. Devotees of this spin-off from the popular podcast This American Life soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true-life murder case. But, beyond the fascinating, disturbing facts it forensically investigated, Serial’s enormous popularity suggested that the spoken word might have become the ‘new rock and roll’.

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Kohn Gallery - Los Angeles Times

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The writing was on the wall -- scrawled, repeatedly, in black ink and projected onto the sides of the tent: “I will not make any more boring art.”

The sentiment -- from a 1971 John Baldessari lithograph -- was a fitting homage to the 83-year-old artist, who was honored Saturday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art gala in Los Angeles.

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Kohn Gallery - Los Angeles Magazine

Everything You Need to Know About L.A.’s New and Future Museums

Not so very long ago, venues for art in Los Angeles were somewhat limited. LACMA, MOCA, and the Getty dominated the scene, with a few significant galleries dotting the landscape, here and there. But now, with a new injection of gallery energy into central Hollywood, and the enormous and extraordinary undertaking that is the Broad, along with many other moving and changing art venues, art in L.A. is truly on the verge. As Suzanne Isken at the Craft and Folk Art Museum puts it, “There is no center in L.A.—it is a multi-action city for art.”

Kohn Gallery

Don’t miss the Kohn, just around the corner from Regen on Highland Boulevard: this 12,000-foot space has three gallery spaces, as well as an external space that is planned for future sculpture exhibits. With soaring 22-foot ceilings, Kohn has played host to some the West Coast’s most important artists: Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner. Michael Kohn is a fixture in the Los Angeles art scene, and checking in at Kohn is a good way to keep current. Now showing at the Kohn: Tom LaDuke. Coming up: Simmons and Burke and Lita Albuquerque. - See more at: http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-l-a-s-new-and-future-museums/#sthash.nFPAHEKT.dpuf

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Mark Ryden - Artnet news

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Cut from neo-Victorian cloth, painters Mark Ryden and Marion Peck are the king and queen of the Lowbrow/Pop Surrealism art scene. A long time cult figure, Ryden's latest show in LA was “The Gay 90's: West," at Kohn Gallery in 2014. Nearly two years in the making, the show drew over 2,000 attendees the first day. Fellow artist Marion is the yin to Ryden's yang; stylistically one can see how each influences the other's work. They are the arbiters of fantasy and exaggerated kitsch, wrapped up in a colorful Victorian epitaph. Collectively, the artists have nearly half a million followers on social media, and their collector roster includes Cliff and Mandy Einstein, singer Katy Perry, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Joe Goode - Observer

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Los Angeles in the early ’60s was a blank canvas for a new generation of artists. It was a city almost completely devoid of an art scene; unencumbered by the artistic history that haunted Paris and New York.

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Lita Albuquerque - Artsy

Gerald Peters Gallery and Peters Projects have joined forces with New Mexico’s Spatiotemporal Modeling Center (STMC) and Los Alamos National Laboratory to present “Inventory of Light,” a group exhibition that integrates works in a variety of media with microscopic, scientific images. Art and science—two disciplines more often viewed separately than in direct relation to one another—intermingle in this exhibition, in the form of a synchronistic look at infinite space and phenomenology.

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Lita Albuquerque - Lets Do More

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For the last of the series, we spoke with internationally acclaimed environmental artist Lita Albuquerque. Utilizing a variety of mediums, Albuquerque's work is often executed within natural landscapes — paint, installation and sculpture, transforming exotic climes such as Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and South Dakota's Badlands — into transformational works of art.

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Troika @ NC Arte, Bogotá

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Troika has been selected for a solo exhibition at NC Arte, Bogotá in 2015.  NC Arte is a cultural gallery with an educational program funded by Neme Foundation. Its main purpose is to contribute to the development of the visual arts in Colombia and Latin America.

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Kohn Gallery - Huffington Post

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The Broad Museum is about to open its doors this September, and by doing so it's going to explode a U.S. military style daisy cutter on the Los Angeles art scene. Then comes Hauser Wirth and Schimmel (HWS) a few blocks away in LA's undeniably burgeoning Arts District. The Museum of Contemporary Art's former chief curator, Paul Schimmel, will take command of the 100,000 square foot super fortress with a dynamic multi-disciplinary arts center. Its palatial grounds, amidst the growing number of galleries, will cement LA as the new capital of the art world, what I simply call ArtWorldInc.

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