LA-based British art critic. Contributing editor for Frieze, writes for the NYT, the FT, Art Review, Apollo, and others.
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Los Angeles designers @petershire and Ryan Preciado, who once worked together, reflect on the past and future of their practices in a conversation with Jonathan Griffin (@griffinjonathan). untappedjournal.com/issues/i…
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Our fall issue is here! Read new work from this year's @WindhamCampbell prizewinners, including @hystericalblkns, @NifMuhammad, @K_Scanlan_, & many others. Plus: Hilton Als on Richard Pryor, Chris Ware on Richard Scarry, @griffinjonathan on Mike Kelley, & more. yalereview.org/issues/fall-2…
ALT Two copies of The Yale Review, with a blue and yellow photograph on the cover, sitting on a wooden table.
Go see 'Life on Earth,’ a show of Eco-feminist art at The Brick, in LA, curated by Catherine Taft frieze.com/article/life-on-e…
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Since his death twelve years ago, Mike Kelley’s artistic influence has only grown. The man himself, however, remains largely a mystery. In our fall issue, @griffinjonathan goes in search of the enigmatic artist. yalereview.org/article/jonat…
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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, our critic writes. nyti.ms/4cGtMlE
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Michael Werner launches its Beverly Hills L.A. space with a show by Markus Lüpertz and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that's in a league of its own. @griffinjonathan reviews: ocula.com/magazine/insights/…
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Bill Viola died on Friday at the of 73. For our March 2014 issue, @griffinjonathan interviewed the video artist and his wife and collaborator Kira Perov about how their elemental, often eerie work grappled with some of life’s biggest questions
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Disability artwork makes history: After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland, Calif., celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection. nyti.ms/3WrsN4x
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. nyti.ms/43RxAhl
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. nyti.ms/3VE6Lew
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.
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At 84, the self-taught painter Jessie Homer French faces the future with a new show at Various Small Fires, her Los Angeles gallery. At home in the high desert she fishes for trout and finds beauty in devastation. nyti.ms/41XHAVg
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. ft.com/content/4c2831fa-b2bc…
Betye Saar still working her magic. My report on her latest installation @TheHuntington
Take a spin with the FT’s paywall: ft.com/content/bc466bf6-ada7…
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What’s to gain from pain? Issue 8, which starts rolling out today, considers the question, and features stories by @griffinjonathan, @DianaBudds, @jarrettfuller, @IanVolner, and others. untappedjournal.com/issues/i…
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Jonathan Griffin admires Candice Lin’s subversion of the story form—across fiction, installation, and animation—in a solo show centered on sex demons.
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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 apollo-magazine.com/apollo-a…
