So much of contemporary art and music is preoccupied with a space, both physical and cerebral, between layers, liminal boundaries – the space between potential and actuality; the ‘what-if’ imponderables of what-was, what-might-have-been, and what-might-be. It’s both...
Los Angeles–based Ace Gallery was taken over by a bankruptcy trustee after founder Douglas Chrismas defaulted on a $17.5 million court-ordered payment in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Ace consists of two gallery spaces located in LA and Beverly Hills and an estimated...
Sometimes “outsider” artists are really not that far outside, though they may indeed be “far out” in content and imagination. Deveron Richard, whose first exhibition at The Good Luck Gallery in Chinatown, is far out in its glorious exploration into the fantastical...
Liberty Cabbage. Freedom Fries. Whenever a reactionary quorum congregates one can be certain no good can come of it. While our senate stages a work stoppage on judicial appointments, and a viable presidential candidate—best known for his government shutdown...
The sculptural objects and installations of “Other Relevant Experience,” with their ceremonial shine and talismanic power, exhume dark histories of conquest and ruin while conjuring notions of magic, sacrifice and salvation. Karen Lofgren’s command of materials and...
Last night found us in Downtown LA at Chimento Contemporary for Laura London’s show. We’ve been following London’s “girls” for quite some time, so we were anxious to see the newest crop of female adolescents usually featured in her work.It was a beautiful day once...
This video follows Clarissa Esguerra, Assistant Curator, and Melinda Kerstein, Mount Maker in the Department of Costume & Textiles, while they get a mannequin dressed and ready for the exhibition "Reigning Men". The ensemble shown here features a a silk...
I recently overheard somebody make the observation that David Bowie’s death has “staying power.” It sounded like an idiotic remark at first but in this case it seems accurate. Sure, Bowie was one of the greats, an unfading star who provided an exhilarating soundtrack...
In the tradition of the famous and innovative Light and Space artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Carrie Seid fashions beautiful sculptural works that, like her predecessors, celebrate light in all its luminous vicissitudes. For Seid, optics can be an...
Attending openings every weekend in LA can begin to feel a little monotonous. The same hip circles, lots of 2D art, a glass of wine here, a few fake smiles there, rinse repeat. That is until one Saturday night when you find yourself innocently walking into Culver City...
Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson's collaboration yields surprising relationships among artworks, viewers, and surrounding architecture.Each artist's celebrated inventiveness is amply represented. Collaged from dyed velvet, Apfelbaum's Blue Joni (2016) and Brown Sugar...
Ross Lipman, the legendary film restorationist responsible for preserving the cinematic legacies of Bruce Conner, Kenneth Anger, John Cassavetes, and a cluster of forgotten American neorealist gems including Killer of Sheep and The Exiles, has turned his attention to...
These notes are for Marilyn. “Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs....”William Shakespeare, Richard II, III:2I woke up this morning thinking about death – my own and others’ (including a friend who may be...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
Robert Frank's timeless photographs capture the quintessential human experience, specifically living and working in the city and street culture. This exhibition sponsored by UCLA's Art History Department, gives us a deeper, more profound understanding of Frank's...
Marie Bovo’s formally complex, visually gratifying and meditative photographs invite prolonged looking. What is captured in the viewfinder and the subsequent print is a mere ghost of her true subject, and this mediation or distance interposed between photographer and...
If walking into the crypt-like rotunda of Soka University’s Founders Hall is a bit chilling, entering the world of Natasha and Anushe Shoro is a return to nature. Within the glistening, well-lit space of the Founders Hall Art Gallery, this mother-daughter exhibition...
It feels cliche to talk about the weather in a city where it’s always sunny and weather virtually does not exist, but my God it was such a beautiful night in LA on Saturday that the thought of being inside a stuffy gallery seemed criminal. To remedy that notion we...
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