Roni Feinstein

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With Ai Weiwei and Jeffrey Deitch at an ArtTable Southern California event in the space of “AiWeiwei: Zodiac,” October 2018.

I am an independent scholar in Art History based in Southern California whose focus is upon late twentieth and early twenty-first century art. Over the course of the past decades, I have lived in and reported on the art scenes of New York, Miami, Toronto, Sydney, and now Los Angeles while working as a museum director and curator, university professor, museum educator, independent curator, and arts journalist. This website presents an overview of my professional involvements. It includes a biographical summary, a detailed CV, links to and reprints of assorted articles and catalogue essays, and descriptions of courses I have taught (or am currently teaching). Many of the art journal articles and exhibition catalogue essays reprinted here are not available elsewhere online.

At the current moment of uncertainty and upheaval in which democracy is being dismantled and discrimination sanctioned, art assumes enhanced importance. It can provide sanctuary and relief on the one hand and can stir and provoke on the other, giving voice to protest as well as to enduring aspects of the human spirit. The overwhelming rally of support for artists and art workers who lost their homes and studios in the recent fires in Los Angeles serves as a beacon of hope, demonstrating what is possible when individuals and communities come together and testifying to art’s valued place in our lives.

The intention of my writing, teaching, and this website is to reveal the wonder, beauty, and intellectual stimulation afforded by art, to revel in art’s capacity to stir the eye, heart, and mind. I explore how an artist’s work may be seen, experienced, and interpreted, how it relates to art historical precedents and the work of the artist’s contemporaries, and why the work is meaningful in the context of the time and world in which we live.

A Fun Find

Having been asked by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to share the tape of an interview I conducted with John Cage back in 1984, I started going through some of my files and came upon these photographs. They were taken by photographer Jeanne D. … Read More

Mila Gokhman, photograph by Michele Mattei, Los Angeles, 2020

Introducing Mila Gokhman

During the period of COVID-19, I devoted myself to trying to get the word out about the fantastic, technically innovative work of an entirely unknown, 88-year-old artist I first encountered in October of 2019. At that time, I was asked by the Jewish … Read More

Vija Celmins SFMOMA

Sublime Poetry: Vija Celmins at SFMOMA

The exhibition Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a privilege to behold. It is not only the images, but the retrospective itself that becomes fixed in memory as a lived experience. Celmin's work … Read More

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