Setting afoot into an office space building was the last place I expected to be on a Friday evening. As I approached Karma International’s gallery in Beverly Hills, it smelled like a good time (if you catch my 420 drift) and I felt like a hot mess as I had no idea...
Bruce Yonemoto – The Imaginary Line Around the Earth
It is possibly the singular image of our time: the ‘walking’ glacier – or in this particular instance, the glacier that both ‘walks’ or extends forward towards the edge of a continent, yet has also begun what may eventually be a dramatic recession. It manages to both...
These Days: Afraid of Modern Living
The unassuming These Days gallery, which lies on the second floor off an alleyway in downtown LA, currently houses an impressive installation titled, “Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor 1977–1982.” The show features a display of zines, paintings,...
Downtown Art Walk
Feeling apprehensive as I walked to the nearest Red Line stop to catch a train downtown; I believe that the last time I tried doing the Downtown Art Walk was about seven years ago. Since then it had morphed from being an intimate, thoughtful event attracting people...
Margie Schnibbe – Indecent Exposure
Setting aside its legal ‘term of art’ implications, ‘Indecent Exposure’ – the collective title of this mini-retrospective of Margie Schnibbe’s films and videos – could simply be a term for the tribulations (and occasional trials) of everyday life – random hazards...
The Situation Room: Seth Kaufman
Seth Kaufman has made a startling new body of work, and has transitioned from sculpture to photography as effortlessly as a caterpillar transitions into a butterfly. Still rigorous and with a keen attention to detail, these images, which largely deal with themes like...
Conspicuous Consumption Indeed
I forgot to eat! My stomach grumbled as I mentioned to my friend that I hoped there might be some food at the opening of Lauren Greenfield’s “Generation Wealth” exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Entering the building complex—not unlike a...
BUTT, OF COURSE
Palm Springs may be the furthest eastern reach of Los Angeles’ urban/suburban schizophrenia and whiny babblespeak, but the Palm Springs Tourism Board has done its best to overcome such a provincial status by adopting the slogan, “Like No Place Else.” That can be said...
Edward Burtynsky – Industrial Abstract
Edward Burtynsky’s principal subject over the last decade or so has been the industrial landscape, or more specifically, large-scale, frequently aerial views of major industrial operations, grids, excavations, or industrial waste sites. The photographs in his current...
Steve Turner: Top Five Buddy Cop Films
One could argue that the buddy cop genre has been with us since well before In the Heat of the Night; that it's among the prototypical literary genres. With the birth of science fiction (Journey to the Center of the Earth) and horror (Dracula), came the original buddy...
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971
Ed Ruscha may have summed it up best in one of his little books of photographs, Thirtyfour Parking Lots – specifically the aerial photograph of that umbilicus carved into Chavez Ravine we know as Dodger Stadium (and its surrounding parking lots). (A little ironic that...
Netflix’s “Medici: Masters of Florence” and a Book That Gives You the Real Scoop
This week’s Image of the Week is by Los Angeles based artist Susan Sironi. Click here to learn more about her and her amazing work. We’re still accepting submissions for the upcoming online exhibition, Virtually Yours. Click here and go to the left-hand column for...
For Mature Audiences Only
Thinkspace was infested with BFAs and mosquitoes Saturday night. We waited in line for the bar behind a kid who would not stop bragging about how often Britney Spears comes into his coffee shop—the bartendress was rocking a “Britney Bitch” shirt. “Are you of age?” she...
Walter Maciel Gallery: Dean Monogenis
Dean Monogenis destroyed nine paintings putting them on display in a work entitled Black Hole. Feeling the need to purge, Monogenis selected older pieces from the gallery's inventory and cut them into strips to be fed into a wood chipper. He then collected the sawdust...