X-TRA
Volume 17, number 3
Spring 2015
Contemporary Art Quarterly
In Catherine Wagley‘s essay, The Conversation: The Young Female Artist as Historian, she considers the phenomenon and complexities of younger women artists finding role models in older women artists, focusing on Margaret Haines‘s connection to Cameron and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer‘s to Lee Lozano.
Brica Wilcox reviews Shana Moulton‘sperformance and installation Detached Inner Eye at the Hammer Museum. Exhibited as part of Public Fiction’s contribution to Made in L.A. 2014, Wilcox wanders in Moulton’s terrain of projection, mimesis, depression and dance.
Travis Diehl looks at Matt Siegle‘s durational performance The Human Potential Movement at Park View, Los Angeles, and accounts for everything in the room.
Jemima Wyman‘s artist projectTactical Frivolity starts with Internet-culled images of protesters wearing the Guy Fawkes mask. In six collages, she explores different groups’ customization of this well-known accessory of resistance.
Glenn Harcourt reviews Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Benjamin Lord considers LACMA’s retrospective Larry Sultan: Here and Home, with detailed attention on Evidence (1977), one of Sultan’s many collaborative projects with Mike Mandel.
And special to the web: John Hogan keeps a straight face and tells us about comedy in the museum at MOCA’s Step and Repeat.
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