Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews

Hugh Leeman 7/20/26 Hugh Leeman 7/20/26

Thomas Murray, This is Our Garden, Noyes Museum of Art

By William W. Sokoloff

Hugh Leeman 7/20/26 Hugh Leeman 7/20/26

Michelle Grabner on Unromantic Truth and the Art School Crisis

"If you have to be a barista, or if you have to carry the mail, you do that. Do not entangle the art market into what you need to get your work done."

Hugh Leeman 7/20/26 Hugh Leeman 7/20/26

The Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters, A Living Version of History’s Greatest Art.

By Liz Goldner

Hugh Leeman 7/20/26 Hugh Leeman 7/20/26

Video Craft, The Museum of Craft and Design

By Hantian Zhang

Hugh Leeman 7/13/26 Hugh Leeman 7/13/26

A Conversation with Oscar Villalon

"What the literary arts do is provide you with that vocabulary. So you can name the place where it hurts. You can name that itch — and now you know where to go and scratch."

Hugh Leeman 7/13/26 Hugh Leeman 7/13/26

Raqib Shaw, Paradise Lost, The Art Institute of Chicago

By N Stern

Hugh Leeman 7/13/26 Hugh Leeman 7/13/26

Pam Longobardi, What We Carry: Meaning, Memory, and the Human Experience, Momentum Gallery

By Bill Russell

Hugh Leeman 7/6/26 Hugh Leeman 7/6/26

Staging California in Early Hollywood, UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa

By Liz Goldner

Hugh Leeman 7/6/26 Hugh Leeman 7/6/26

Joel Hernandez, At Least We’re Damned Together, Moth Belly Gallery

By Grey Dey

Hugh Leeman 7/6/26 Hugh Leeman 7/6/26

Enrique Chagoya on invisible censorship, keeping our humanity, and uselessness

"The most invisible type of censorship is actually the art market…You have to see the arts as a way to keep your humanity, not as a way to make a living."

Hugh Leeman 7/6/26 Hugh Leeman 7/6/26

Martin Wong, Chinatown USA, Wrightwood 659

By Wei Huang

Hugh Leeman 6/29/26 Hugh Leeman 6/29/26

Christy Chan

"We have a government that's behaving in a very fragile way — when they put in measures to limit what people can learn in schools and what they can talk about in the workplace, that's coming from a deep fear of the truth."