John Millei @ Ace: A- ?€¦ great pure painting, excellent use of NFL Raiders colors.
John Millei @ Ace Beverly Hills: F ?€¦ That Picasso Joke isn?€™t funny anymore.
Sam Windett @ Marc Foxx: F?€¦ quite a downer
Jason Meadows @ Marc Foxx: C+ ?€¦ Swap Meet humor in bronze
Group Show @ 1301PE: F ?€¦ Rirkrit Tiravagina is now ripping off equal parts Richard Prince and Joseph Kosuth
Squeak Carnwath @ Peter Mendenhall: B+ ?€¦ Hey kids, this is what good painting looked like in the 80s. Excpet that it is all from this decade.
Group show @ Acme: A- ?€¦ Toronto-based Sasha Pierce exhibited the best paintings currently hanging in LA. Everything else was okay.
Kevin Hanley @ Acme: F ?€¦ The god of interior decorator matting has added wallpaper to his one-trick pony rodeo, well fuck art history in the ass, has there been a greater development in western culture than this delivery from our double-chinned art god?
Gagosian: F ?€¦ closed for installation after we put a dollar in the meter ?€¦ can you draw up a bigger sign? I thought the parking gods were smiling at us when the spot in front of the gallery was open but they were just laughing at us?€¦
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe @ Manny Silverman: F ?€¦ Astoundingly bad grids. Imagine a pink crossword puzzle created by a Sphinx whose sole riddle was wasted on theorizing to spoiled Pasadena rich kids.
Josh Mannis @ Thomas Solomon: F ?€¦ But Tom was nice in answering questions about who on earth would be open in Chinatown at 5 PM on a Thursday. Turns out lots of folks. Doubly good, the meter in front of his gallery was broken, even though there is an urban legend that they can still give you a ticket for that?€¦
Jeff Gambill @ Sam Lee Gallery: A- ?€¦ More pure painting. Great small compositions in the back room.
Solway Jones: incomplete ?€¦ Michael was on the phone and the website does not have the cat?€™s name whose show is up right now, had steel plates and tumbleweeds in it ?€¦ you know, the L.A. Aesthetic?€¦
Dan Bales @ Francois Ghebaly Gallery: B- ?€¦ mildly exciting paintings of boring buildings.
Dan Finsel @ Parker Jones Gallery: D ?€¦ there was another critic in the space reviewing the show so her rave will probably balance out this ?€?D is for Disappointment?€? memory?€¦
Barbara T. Smith @ The Box: D- ?€¦ When did the sealed vitrine become the preferred method of conducting performance art?
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