07/14/2026
Don't miss Ruth Pastine in conversation with art critic Peter Frank!
Saturday, July 18, 2026
3 PM
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Free and open to the public
🔹Peter Frank is a New York-born, Los Angeles-based art critic, historian, and curator. He has guest curated exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Center for Inter-American Relations, the Alternative Museum, Franklin Furnace Archive, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Laguna Art Museum, among others. He has realized projects for Documenta and the Biennale de Venezia. Frank has written extensively for Art in America, ARTnews, artillery, and Whitehot Magazine, and other periodicals (including several he edited) and served as art critic for The SoHo Weekly News, The Village Voice, and LA Weekly. Numerous exhibition monographs and catalogues feature his essays, and he has published several books. He has lectured and taught at universities domestically and abroad. Frank is also a published poet.
🔹Ruth Pastine is internationally recognized for her minimalist color field paintings and multi-panel installations through which she explores the phenomenological experience of color, light, and space. Ruth Pastine: Technicolor Sublime is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.
The exhibition is on view now through August 2, 2026 and is open Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM–5 PM.
Images courtesy of Ruth Pastine and Peter Frank
