Ripe for Rediscovery: John Outterbridge

Ripe for Rediscovery: John Outterbridge

I first encountered a couple of John Outterbridge’s trippy, sexy, irresistible sculptures on a press trip to Los Angeles in 2011 for the first iteration of Pacific Standard Time, the sprawling series of exhibitions devoted to art in southern California. It was love at...
Time-Traveling Art Critics

Time-Traveling Art Critics

In times like these it’s tempting to fantasize what life might have been like in another century, another culture, among a coterie of friends and acquaintances who had things on their minds other than the pandemic and insane politicians. I’ve occasionally wondered...
Tim Best: “Poser”

Tim Best: “Poser”

We live in times when gender is a construct open to question, fluidity, analysis, and change. What is male? What is female? If you don’t feel comfortable with the sex you’re born into, you can change it. If you want to marry your own kind, it’s the law of the land...
Leslie Parke

Leslie Parke

More so than most, Leslie Parke grew up with abundant encouragement to embark on the path of an artist. At the age of five she was studying art books on the living room floor of the family house in Scarsdale, NY.  (“I had the childish desire to live inside a painting...