I searched the car frantically for her that day; swinging open each door, squeezing my hand in between the seats in case she had slid through like a stray quarter. Rational judgment doesn’t apply when you’ve lost your mother. We had driven into the city together, she...
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions: Miha Strukelj
A tram cable traverses The Project Room, a tiny cube tucked behind the main gallery space of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. LACE, on Hollywood Boulevard, is the perfect location for educating the public about Los Angeles contemporary art. Sheltered from the...
No Beauty in Hell at The Broad
In his Aesthetic Theory, philosopher Theodor W. Adorno wrote of art’s “double character,” that is, the idea that art flourishes when it resists society, and dies if it is swallowed by the capitalist hive-mind. “Art is the social antithesis to society, not directly...
The Day of Forevermore
In this modern fairy tale, a daughter struggles to find freedom from her imposing mother, an elderly demented witch, on the mysterious farm of Forevermore Acres, a rundown junk strewn ranch full of aged witches and misfit monsters. The mother's plans to indoctrinate...