Christopher Knight
Christopher Knight is art critic for the Los Angeles Times. He is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism (1991, 2001 and 2007). Knight received the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism from the College Art Assn., becoming the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years. He has appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” PBS’ “NewsHour,” NPR's “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” and CNN and was featured in the 2009 documentary movie about the controversial relocation of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection, “The Art of the Steal.”
Recent Articles
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Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life'
Art critic Christopher Knight reviews "Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life," a show of more than 100 of the artist's works opening Saturday at the Broad museum in L.A.
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Heinous history as potent muse in Underground Museum's 'Non-fiction'
The small exhibition “Non-fiction” is an elegiac tone poem, spoken in visual shades of black. With just 10 works by eight artists, it presents no defined thesis but resonates beyond its modest scale. The work was selected by the late Noah Davis, founder of the Underground Museum in Arlington Heights,...
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UCLA's art school plans to build a $31-million expansion in Culver City with major donation
In today's art world, galleries and museums tend to draw the lion's share of public attention. But art schools are a primary if less heralded source of steady renewal for the city's cultural life. That's what makes the unveiling Thursday of an ambitious proposal by the UCLA School of the Arts &...
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Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery
Fourteen recent paintings by Romanian artist Marius Bercea are filled with languorous beauty, negotiating a conflicted intersection between sincere, profound yearning and deep psychological distress. This is Bercea’s third solo show at Francois Ghebaly Gallery and his most impressively resolved....
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Ramiro Gomez 'On Melrose' at Charlie James Gallery
Nine new paintings by Ramiro Gomez continue his project of representing workers in Los Angeles — either invisible or merely taken for granted — whose labor is instrumental to making the city go. His focus now is “On Melrose.” In the basement room at Charlie James Gallery, Gomez’s 11-panel mural...
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Review: George Condo at Sprüth Magers Gallery
George Condo has always been besotted with pushing paint around canvas, ever since his first show in Los Angeles more than 30 years ago. The pleasure is infectious. The New York-based painter, now at Sprüth Magers Gallery for his first L.A. solo exhibition since 1999, is still smitten. Most of...
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Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen
Want to clear your mind? Get a pickup truck, then spend a couple years driving across and around the continent — alone. That's the first lesson of the lovely retrospective of abstract paintings by Agnes Martin (1912-2004) newly opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The show is divided...
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SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens its doors to the public on May 14, just shy of three years after closing for a $305-million expansion of its building, now doubled in size. The new galleries are capacious and well organized. The big attention-getter will likely be the fifth and sixth...