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Whitehot Magazine’s Art World Podcast. Guest host , in conversation with actor/ poet/award-winning screenwriter Laurence Fuller

Whitehot Material Magazine’s  Podcast: World Art. Guest host : Conversation with actor/poet/art critic/screenwriter Laurence Fuller about his award -winning screenplay  Modern Art  on the life of his legendary father, the late Peter Fuller. LINKS: To listen on spotify and Apple: .http://https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noah-becker4/episodes/Laurence-Fuller—poetscreenwriterart-criticactor-e2f1crh http://https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/laurence-fuller-poet-screenwriter-art-critic-actor/id1551013809?i=1000643228397    ...
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Tiffany Shlain’s Feminist Tree Ring is a Moveable Monument Which Has Become a Visual Locus for Galvanizing Collective Action in Feminist Interventions

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, November 2023. Shlain’s new artwork Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring uses reclaimed cedar tree rings as a medium for re-writing women’s history with an ” intentional counter-narrative to the typical pateriarcirchal perspective.” This five-foot diameter tree ring became a visual rallying point for galvanizing  collective action in a feminist intervention...
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The Terrible Beauty of Juanita McNeely’s Moving Through at James Fuentes Gallery, Los Angeles

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, October 2023.  Juanita McNeely’s fiercely beautiful paintings explore taboo subjects that would usually make us squirm and cringe. Shr uses the beauty of refined color, unconventional composition and physical movement to capture our attention and lure us in,  to face uncomfortable truths about abortion, cancer and disability. Although...
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Art of Devotion: Astrid Preston and Blue McRight at Craig Krull Gallery

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, September 2023. A review of the intriguing parallels between Astrid Preston’s tree paintings and Blue McRight’s underwater  sculptures which share a devotional quality in the meticulously detailed, labor-intensive way they are made over a long duration of time. Link: https://https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/mcright-at-craig-krull-gallery/5981  ...
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The Flower Show at L.A.Louver Coincides with a Rare Superbloom in California

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, August 30, 2023. The exhibition includes 55 artists and over 90 artworks, installed in small groupings that enable viewers to recognize parallels between artworks. Flowers are a limitless subject for artistic interpretation, which have always been and will continue to be an inspiration for art. When art is based on...
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David Kordansky Gallery Celebrates a 20th Anniversary With A Quintessential Californian Art Show

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, August 8, 2023. The extraordinary quality of the innovative artworks featured in this momentous exhibition are a celebration of a uniquely artist-centered gallery, which is analogous to the progression of L.A art history Link: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/with-quintessential-californian-art-show/5921        ...
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“I am a mocking bird in a painter’s space”: Peter Shelton discusses his love of making improbable sculptures

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, June 2023. For over fifty years Peter Shelton has explored contradictions which come alive in improbable forms: stomachs that turn inside out, bloated pouches, distended limbs and clusters of testicles. LINK: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/his-love-making-improbable-sculptures/5879...
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Kehinde Wiley: The Power of Art to Change Thinking

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, March 21, 2023. Kehinde did not resort to criticizing or blaming the art world for ignoring people of color as subjects for portraits on museum walls. Instead, he just showed up, with an inimitable style of portraiture  that fuses art-historical references and classical visual rhetoric with current vernaculars...
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Highlights of Frieze L.A

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art , February 20, 2023. The fourth edition of Frieze Los Angeles at Santa Monica airport  attracted a huge crowd of collectors, curators, critics, artists, celebrities and art devotees, who traveled from around the world to view the celebrated art fair’s international mix of superstar artists and the most dynamic...
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