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The New York Times includes Lauren Halsey’s Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop commission The Eastside of South Central Los Angeles Hieroglyph Prototype Architecture (I) among "The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age,” selected by a panel of artists and curator including Firelei Báez, Charles Gaines, Adam Pendleton, Arlene Shechet, and Ruba Katrib.Read more here. 

Galerie names Maia Cruz Palileo an "Artist to Watch," highlighting their upcoming solo exhibition at our NY gallery and a shift toward dreamlike compositions rooted in family archives, oral history, and immigration. Read more here.

 

An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 is reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail as “an efficient, thoughtful tribute” that ultimately transcends “the atomization and nihilism of America’s past, present, and future.” Read more here.

Ahead of his upcoming solo presentation with David Kordansky Gallery at Frieze Seoul, Chase Hall discusses how fatherhood has reshaped the direction and rhythm of his practice, and the unexpected inspiration he finds in an ancient junkheap on his Upstate New York property. Read more here.

In an interview with Observer, Jay and Ricki Blakesberg discuss the making of An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995, sharing insights into the archival process and their curatorial approach behind the exhibition. Read more here.

In a recent article published by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Ignacio Darnaude writes, “Tom’s Stretch ultimately argues that Tom’s legacy lies not simply in his iconography but in the permission he gave artists to exaggerate the body, to celebrate desire without apology, and to imagine identities unconstrained by social convention.” Read more here.

Cultured Magazine highlights Tom's Stretch, a group exhibition currently on view at our LA gallery, exploring Tom of Finland's lasting impact through interviews with nine participating artists on his legacy and the role of erotic art. Read More here.

Ricki Blakesberg and Jay Blakesberg speak with Artnet News about An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995, an exhibition of rarely seen photographs documenting the Grateful Dead and the culture legacy surrounding the band. Read more here. 

Rashid Johnson’s large-scale mosaic, drawn from his "Broken Men" series, is installed at the Obama Presidential Center opening in June. The work is among 30 artwork commissions by Barack and Michelle Obama. Read more here.