Best of art 2011: Christopher Knight
After 40 years of making mass media-inflected paintings and installations that hummed along just below the larger public radar, Leavitt stepped forward in a retrospective survey that had the quiet force of revelation. (Frazer Harrison / WireImage)
All three of the museum’s venues were turned over to an exceptional, often surprising survey of 1960s Light & Space art, marvelously reshuffling our understanding of the distinctive L.A. genre.
Pictured: Artist Doug Wheeler, left, and Hugh Davies, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
