Jonathan Griffin
@griffinjonathan
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LA-based British art critic. Contributing editor for Frieze, writes for the NYT, the FT, Art Review, Apollo, and others.
Los Angeles
Joined May 2009
RT @untappedjournal: Los Angeles designers @petershire and Ryan Preciado, who once worked together, reflect on the past and future of their….
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The Los Angeles designers, who once worked together, reflect on the past and future of their practices.
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This artist blew my mind. So happy I got to write about him.
With his fantastic light machines, the mid-century artist Thomas Wilfred created a whole new genre of art that left its mark on countless major artists, writes Jonathan Griffin.
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RT @yalereview: Our fall issue is here! Read new work from this year's @WindhamCampbell prizewinners, including @hystericalblkns, @NifMuham….
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Go see 'Life on Earth,’ a show of Eco-feminist art at The Brick, in LA, curated by Catherine Taft
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An ecofeminist show of 18 artists and collectives at The Brick, Los Angeles, decentres a male perspective – but ultimately can't get away from a human one
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RT @yalereview: Since his death twelve years ago, Mike Kelley’s artistic influence has only grown. The man himself, however, remains largel….
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How class and the counterculture shaped the art of Mike Kelley.
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RT @nytimesarts: At the impressive new home of the Los Angeles Clippers, new artworks foster a community spirit. But there are no outright….
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At the impressive new home of the Los Angeles Clippers, new artworks foster a community spirit. But there are no outright slam dunks here.
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RT @OculaArt: Michael Werner launches its Beverly Hills L.A. space with a show by Markus Lüpertz and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that's in a….
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RT @Apollo_magazine: Bill Viola died on Friday at the of 73. For our March 2014 issue, @griffinjonathan interviewed the video artist and hi….
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RT @nytimesarts: Disability artwork makes history: After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland, Calif., celebrates as its artists enter the….
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After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection.
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My review of Martha Diamond’s outstanding show at @david_kordansky.
What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, Monet did for Paris and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy, Martha Diamond did for New York’s masonry. Her show at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles is a Critic’s Pick.
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My review of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition up now at @Gagosian Beverly Hills:.
At Gagosian Beverly Hills, a new exhibition by Jean-Michel Basquiat harks back to the time the artist spent in Los Angeles in the ’80s. The show is both impressive and discomforting, our critic says.
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It’s a dark day for journalism, for Los Angeles, for art writing and for tinned fish connoisseurship. We’ve lost @cmonstah and she will not be replaced. 🫡.
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Urs Fischer curating John Chamberlain in Aspen seemed like a total bro-out, but I was pleasantly surprised.
John Chamberlain’s car-crush sculptures deserve a second look
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RT @nytimesarts: At 84, the self-taught painter Jessie Homer French faces the future with a new show at Various Small Fires, her Los Angele….
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The self-taught artist, at 83, has a newly flourishing career. In Southern California’s high desert she fishes for trout and finds beauty in devastation.
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Ron Nagle is an artist who changed my ideas about what art could do and be. To quote Benjamin Weissman quoting Jane Goodall, when I see his work “I slap the ground in banana excitement.”. And, as I found out when I met him, he’s a wonderful person too.
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He makes miniature ceramic sculptures which carry an outsized emotional impact
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Betye Saar still working her magic. My report on her latest installation @TheHuntington . Take a spin with the FT’s paywall:
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The 97-year-old turns flora, fauna and found objects into sculptures that reflect powerfully on the past
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RT @untappedjournal: What’s to gain from pain? Issue 8, which starts rolling out today, considers the question, and features stories by @gr….
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RT @e_flux: Jonathan Griffin admires Candice Lin’s subversion of the story form—across fiction, installation, and animation��in a solo show….
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The story, as literary theorist Peter Brooks has observed, is today’s dominant cultural form. To Brooks, this “overabundance” of narrative is worry
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Farewell Robert Irwin. What an extraordinary career. There’s not another like him.
Robert Irwin has died at the age of 95. The quintessentially Californian artist spoke to @griffinjonathan in 2015 about his experiments with light and space and the importance of making beautiful things
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