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Storefront for Art and Architecture is an institution committed to the advancement of innovative and critical positions. >> Read more

It is a mistake to compare LA with New York, Beijing or London, because Los Angeles is what they are not. It is their idiosyncratic counterpoint. >> Read more

For his first solo show in Seoul, Daniel Arsham presents a series of new pieces inspired by daily objects shown through the prism of destruction—a recurring narrative in his work—with the use of precious materials. >> Read more

Storefront's recent exhibition, "Facing East", felt like an opportunity grandly missed. >> Read more

China’s influence in Africa is growing quickly on many levels. Chinese companies are creating new infrastructure. Cities have received brand new skylines “made in China.” >> Read more

Internet and smart phone technologies have led to sweeping change in society in our lifetime, forcing us to wrestle with new modes of thinking about and experiencing time, space, and speed, whereby our intellectual and emotional responses to past, present, and future are constantly shifting. >> Read more

Uzumaki is the name of a Japanese manga published from 1998 to 1999. Its author Junji Ito used the shape of a spiral as a form of horror. Spirals are generally regarded positively in Japanese society, so the challenge of Uzumaki was to take the mysterious pattern as larger than humanity’s capability for understanding and twist it into a terrible force. >> Read more

One of the core genre tools often deployed for exhibitions intended to invite public participation is, of course, participatory art. “Inflation!” wisely steers away from anything knotty and relational, instead opting for a more literal form of visitor-work interaction that also makes space for unorthodox relationships between visitors. >> Read more