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Los Angeles

Mario Ybarra Jr.

Honor Fraser

Mario Ybarra Jr.'s emotionally layered exhibition "Double Feature" was a compilation of two projects: "Scarface Museum," a collection of memorabilia from Brian de Palma's 1983 movie, which was a favorite of his childhood friend Angel Montes Jr.; and "Universal Monsters," five painted and two sculpted selfportraits based on characters from Universal Studios' sci-fi and horror films from the1920s through the '60s.

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Los Angeles

Jed Ochmanek

Young Art

Jed Ochmanek may call his newest series of paintings "flats," but "depth" more accurately captures what was on display in "Breed St.," the artist's third solo exhibition at Young Art.

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Chicago

Richard Koppe

Corbett vs. Dempsey

Cubism is most often associated with its inventors Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, as well as a range of other European artists who took art in radically new directions at the beginning of the 20th century. Its effects, however, reverberated for decades throughout the American scene in the work of Manierre Dawson, Max Weber and many others.

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New York

Wang Xieda

James Cohan

Shanghai-based sculptor Wang Xieda's first exhibition in the United States, "Subject Verb Object," featured 19 spindly cast-bronze abstract sculptures, tabletop-size, that clearly reflect the influence of David Smith and Giacometti.

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New York

Xavier Cha

47 Canal

Xavier Cha is a young New York-based artist who has garnered attention for works involving live performance.

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NEWS & OPINION

Christie's Sells Nearly Half a Billion Dollars of Contemporary Art

Christie's contemporary art sale last night achieved the highest total in auction history at $495 mill… Read More

Hammer Museum Hires Curators Butler, Moshayedi

Cornelia Butler, named in April as co-curator with Michael Ned Holte of the upcoming Hammer biennial … Read More

Cooper Occupation Exceeds One-Week Mark

In the latest development in an ongoing conflict, students at New York's Cooper Union have occupied t… Read More

Market News
DECODING IMAGES

Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200

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