Farewell Robert Irwin. What an extraordinary career. There’s not another like him.

Jonathan Griffin admires Candice Lin’s subversion of the story form—across fiction, installation, and animation—in a solo show centered on sex demons. Jonathan Griffin e-flux.com/criticism/5725…

What’s to gain from pain? Issue 8, which starts rolling out today, considers the question, and features stories by Jonathan Griffin, Diana Budds, Jarrett Fuller, Ian Volner, and others. untappedjournal.com/issues/issue-8

Betye Saar still working her magic. My report on her latest installation ⁦The Huntington⁩ Take a spin with the FT’s paywall: ft.com/content/bc466b…

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/4c2831…

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

Urs Fischer curating John Chamberlain in Aspen seemed like a total bro-out, but I was pleasantly surprised.

My review of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition up now at Gagosian Beverly Hills:

My review of Martha Diamond’s outstanding show at David Kordansky Gallery

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

Bill Viola died on Friday at the of 73. For our March 2014 issue, Jonathan Griffin 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

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. Jonathan Griffin reviews: ocula.com/magazine/insig…

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

Our fall issue is here! Read new work from this year's Windham-Campbell Prizes prizewinners, including @hystericalblkns, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kathryn Scanlan, & many others. Plus: Hilton Als on Richard Pryor, Chris Ware on Richard Scarry, Jonathan Griffin on Mike Kelley, & more.

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, Jonathan Griffin goes in search of the enigmatic artist. yalereview.org/article/jonath…

Go see 'Life on Earth,’ a show of Eco-feminist art at The Brick, in LA, curated by Catherine Taft frieze.com/article/life-o…

This artist blew my mind. So happy I got to write about him.

Los Angeles designers Peter Shire and Ryan Preciado, who once worked together, reflect on the past and future of their practices in a conversation with Jonathan Griffin (Jonathan Griffin). untappedjournal.com/issues/issue-1…