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Jordan Riefe

Jordan Riefe

With a background in filmmaking, Jordan Riefe worked in the industry in various capacities before becoming an entertainment reporter, covering for The Wrap and Reuters. Currently he serves as West Coast theater critic for 'The Hollywood Reporter,' and writes on culture, art and cinema for 'OC Register' and Truthdig.com.

A large sheet features an expressive abstract painting with thick, blended strokes of green, red, yellow, and blue spreading across the surface.

Cy Twombly’s Drawing and Discovery

By Jordan Riefe
A young girl in a sleeveless dress stands barefoot on grass at night, her head bowed and body illuminated against a dark wooded backdrop.

The World as Seen Through Yorgos Lanthimos’s Lens

By Jordan Riefe
A print of three palm trees of decreasing sizes

Gemini G.E.L.’s 60th Anniversary Show Is a Love Letter to L.A.

By Jordan Riefe
An image of a young boy in a suit with a bowl haircut and round glasses, sitting with arms crossed in front of a yellow striped background with a cup on a wooden cabinet.

Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer’s David Hockney Holdings Come Home to Portland

By Jordan Riefe
An overhead view of a busy art fair

Here’s What You Missed Off Frieze at Felix, BUTTER and Beyond

By Jordan Riefe
A towering white camel sculpture dominates a booth with patterned blue walls, while a visitor walks past holding a brochure in the exhibition space.

Early Sales at Frieze L.A. Signal Renewed Collector Confidence

By Jordan Riefe
A large framed diptych presents two side-by-side images, with one panel showing a muscular male figure emerging from darkness and the other showing a painted portrait of a person with a hat and expressive facial features against an abstract, multicolored background.

At the LA Art Show, Galleries Push Past Familiar Boundaries

By Jordan Riefe
A group of performers wearing blindfolds and headpieces shaped like clustered spheres stand behind transparent panels with their hands raised, creating a choreographed tableau within a theatrical set.

Beth Morrison On Reshaping the Boundaries of Contemporary Opera

By Jordan Riefe
A cluttered workspace with a table and many shelves crammed with objects of all kinds

Wes Anderson Recreates Joseph Cornell’s Utopia Parkway Studio in Paris

By Jordan Riefe
An expansive pointillist landscape by Paul Signac shows Mont Saint-Michel rising above a pale pink and blue shoreline under a softly clouded sky.

From Rejection to Revolution: Santa Barbara Museum of Art Charts the Rise of the Impressionists

By Jordan Riefe
A gallery view shows several framed abstract drawings on a wall behind an arrangement of oversized brown folding chairs and tables, illustrating Robert Therrien’s use of everyday domestic forms at exaggerated scale.

Robert Therrien’s Ordinary Uncanny at the Broad in L.A.

By Jordan Riefe
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