CHG 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Corey Helford Gallery, 571 S. Anderson Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, through September 24th
The art world ‘conversation,’ in many ways, can be a small one. In the post-modern, post-conceptual landscape, anything goes. Yet (Juxtapoz to one side) we’re…
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Home Is Where the Horror Is – Guillermo del Toro (Part 1)
The Strain (with Carlton Cuse, Chuck Hogan, et al.), third season premiere August 28th, 10:00 p.m., FX Networks
We live very close to horror in the early 21st century. But then I wonder how much has really changed since, say, the 1940s (although…
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The exhausted, inexhaustible, and eternal city – GRIND
Various Small Fires, 812 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles 90038, through August 27th
Roughly a generation separates me from artist-curator Joshua Nathanson; but we clearly live in very similar moments in very similar cities. (My understanding is that…
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SF Art Show
A Farewell to Flax
Last weekend we found ourselves in San Francisco, trading in the ungodly heat of an LA summer for Carl (the fog) and 50 degrees. On…
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Passage
ACME
ACME’s late summer group show, Passage, chooses subtlety over ‘statement’, quietly suggesting a spectrum of emerging ideas and directions through its artists’ varied address of…
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David Hockney, well known as a painter and draftsman, is also a versatile multi-disciplinary artist who has embraced technology in surprising ways. It comes as…
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Can The Broad Rise Above
Room For Inclusion At Third Summer Happening
Victorian critic Walter Pater’s famous maxim that “all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music” admires the musician for her destruction of boundaries: “[Music’s]…
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Will Benedict’s I AM A PROBLEM
Video from the Berlin Biennale
I AM A PROBLEM (2016) is a music video by Will Benedict for the Detroit-based noise band Wolf Eyes. An alien discusses issues surrounding assimilation…
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Apocalypse On the “Miracle Mile”: Steve De Jarnatt’s Movie Milestone
“Miracle Mile” (screening with “Cherry 2000”), tonight, August 18th, 7:30 p.m., Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
In the late 1970s there was a running joke surrounding Francis Ford Coppola’s much anticipated, but disaster-plagued and seemingly endless Vietnam War-as-American Heart of Darkness…
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Saturday night we found ourselves in Chinatown for the opening of Mind Your Mannerisms at Jai & Jai, a gallery tucked discretely along Spring Street north of Cesar…
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Arthur Jafa, at MADE IN L.A. 2016, Hammer Museum
MADE IN L.A. 2016 – a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
As we are posting this, we are informed that Arthur Jafa has not been awarded the Mohn Public Recognition Award; and we can’t help wondering…
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The collection of portraits by Mr. Fish (Dwayne Booth) at Robert Berman Gallery serves as a testament to the idols that the political cartoonist holds…
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Jorge R Gutierrez
Gregorio Escalante Gallery
The concept of an artist commemorating a particular time and place is always interesting, specifically in this case the border between Tijuana and the U.S….
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The Embedded Fragment – Gronk’s Theater of Paint
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, through September 4th
Long before I had a clue about art, or at least modern or contemporary art, my older brother and I would occasionally be dropped off…
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The dust stirs and rises quickly from its surrounding detritus, particles colliding wildly, glistening in the hard glare of a halogen spotlight. They drift through…
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Nods to the philosophical and an absurdist humor set the tone of this eclectic group show that is never short on substance. An homage of sorts…
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