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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 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
A group of Guerrilla Girls members wearing gorilla masks pose playfully together outdoors in front of a chain-link fence.

At the Getty Research Institute, the Guerrilla Girls Mark 40 Years of Calling Out the Art World

By Jordan Riefe
A black and white photo of a seated blonde woman wearing a black high-waisted skirt and a while button down shirt

Doubt, Faith and the Creative Odyssey Behind Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “HILDEGARD”

By Jordan Riefe
Two large bronze statues of men on horseback stand beside an orange car embedded upright in the floor, bearing a Confederate flag on its roof, inside a spacious white-walled gallery.

At MOCA Geffen and The Brick, “Monuments” Probes the Line Between History and Propaganda

By Jordan Riefe
A colorful painting on an off-white wall

‘Made in LA’ Captures the Creative Resilience of the Los Angeles Art Scene in a Charged Moment

By Jordan Riefe
A crowned figure sits inside a transparent vessel submerged underwater among sea creatures, while two men lean over the side of a boat floating above.

The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement

By Jordan Riefe
A woman seated at a small table with watercolor paints shows a card to another smiling woman in a red velvet jacket during an interactive booth at the fair.

In Santa Monica, the Other Art Fair Is Both Commercial Platform and Community Hub

By Jordan Riefe
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