Radical words return to Westwood, an unlikely pairing in Culver City, a “sugared” return in El Sereno, a rooftop salon downtown, gender bias confronted in the Arts District, beach adjacent explorations in Venice, all live, plus a peek at next week and more SoCal dance. Live Dance (Note: as of press time, these events are …
A few words about my latest art film — 1.5 minutes in length. The film is posted below. Nearly 15 years ago while driving to my Los Feliz apartment, I spied an old lamppost on Hollywood Blvd. with a bunch of plastic bags caught in it, blowing wildly. Back home, I grabbed my video camera …
Have you ever sat down and thought about what would happen if landfills finally overflowed? It seems that artists who are using found materials to create their masterpieces may have come across that thought. Making use of eco-friendly materials for art is nowhere near a new practice, but it is becoming more essential considering the …
“At night, noise is a nuisance.” That, in plain English, is what in French becomes an opportunity for a phonetically humorous turn of phrase: La nuit, le bruit nuit ! That is what the feature image shows, written with the half-moon in place of the U of “nuit” providing graphic interest, and posted in the …
Berlin is home to hundreds of galleries and art museums that boast unparalleled collections. For the ambitious artist, this city is overflowing with opportunities for installations and exhibitions that could help put their work on the map. In fact, it is often the case that artists first gained notoriety in Berlin before moving to other …
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TAG Gallery opens a Deborah Decker, Shelley Lazarus, & Joe Pinkelman group show; Jesse Mockrin & Vanessa Maltese enter Night Gallery; and burgeoning collectors can get an education at Corey Helford Gallery’s massive Art Collector Starter Kit V exhibition… In a city that never has a slow week of openings, here’s the Los Angeles art you …
Paris without art is inconceivable. The art world permeates the city at all levels. It impacts people’s lifestyle, what they eat and its aesthetics, their fashion, their filmmaking, their architecture. As We Saw It – Part 4: Brushing Art in Paris is a potpourri of art seen during the summer of 2018. The focus was …
We could not be more pleased than to welcome our long-time friends, ICY and SOT, to Los Angeles as the showcased artists of Thinkspace’s first-ever solo exhibition and full gallery takeover, Human (Nature). This internationally acclaimed artist-activist duo (and brothers) first came to our attention over four years ago, via an interview I did with …
If you want to resist, pay a poet. Poets don’t make much money. They do bookstore readings for free, and sell their poetry books for maybe $15. It seems like such a trivial, useless thing to write a poem, until you remember that some governments throw poets in jail. Because poets’ words incite people to …
I’ve stored myriad glimpses of Syria in my memory, but the ones I chose to frame were found on ancient walls in Damascus and Aleppo. They are simple advertisements for plumbing services and tax notices. One is from Damascus’ Christian quarter, honoring a recent death. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so …
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Milu Correch is a young Argentinian painter and illustrator who lives and works in Buenos Aires. She always drew as a kid until about a few years ago when she attended a workshop on muralism given by Lean Frizzera and Emy Mariani, two street artists she admired. Soon after, she was translating her images from her …
So the conventions are over, balloons popped, confetti and little American flags hopefully recycled into condolence cards for the lack of a civil electoral process—though Bernie did a great job! Hillary is the first woman presidential nominee, for better or worse. But however you feel about the outcome of the primaries, one choice is incredibly …
So the conventions are over, balloons popped, confetti and little American flags hopefully recycled into condolence cards for the lack of a civil electoral process—though Bernie did a great job! Hillary is the first woman presidential nominee, for better or worse. But however you feel about the outcome of the primaries, one choice is incredibly …
Rustam Qbic specializes in street art that seems larger than life. His paintings are saturated with lush storybook colors and are defined by a playful sense of the absurd. Popping up in both expected and unexpected locales, his murals beautify not only the crumbling walls of derelict buildings but also that of apartment buildings. There’s …
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