Book Review: Set the Night on Fire "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties" By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

Book Review: Set the Night on Fire
"Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties" By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

In this passionate, lovingly detailed historical account of the struggle for social justice from multiple sectors of society in Los Angeles during an epic American decade, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener have written a history of activists who believed in democracy and...

COMICS Christo and His Bag

COMICS
Christo and His Bag

POEMS "The Swan Motel" By Alan Yuch; "Say You Love Me" By John Tottenham

POEMS
"The Swan Motel" By Alan Yuch; "Say You Love Me" By John Tottenham

The Swan Motel By Alan Yuch The hot nights, the swelter, even the walls would sweat. Sweet Marcy in the same cotton dress, patterned with red, white and blue balloons. The windowless room, matching walls, the air-flooded neon. This room was meant for sleeping,...

ASK BABS Should I Stay or Should I Go?

ASK BABS
Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Dear Babs, If Trump gets another term in office I think I will leave the US. Where’s the best place to go for an artist who wants to flee America? —Expat Patty Dear Expat Patty, I remember getting a question like this back when Trump first came into office, so it...

Reconnoiter: Alison De La Cruz

Reconnoiter: Alison De La Cruz

Alison De La Cruz is a multidisciplinary theater artist, community-based facilitator, producer and cultural space cultivator who has spent over 20 years building intersectionally with Black, Latinx, Indigenous, queer and immigrant communities towards community-based...

Materia Medica François Ghebaly

Materia Medica
François Ghebaly

“Materia Medica,” the summer group show at François Ghebaly, curated by Kelly Akashi, is more than a call to reconsider the relationship between humans and the natural world. The show pointedly issues a rallying cry of refusal against relentlessly destructive human...

Alec Egan Anat Ebgi Gallery

Alec Egan
Anat Ebgi Gallery

Since 2017, Alec Egan has created paintings that depict the interior rooms of imagined dwellings. These spaces are often decorated with competing floral patterns so ornate they become claustrophobic. In August, he presents 14 paintings of varying sizes that center...

Nancy Buchanan Charlie James Gallery

Nancy Buchanan
Charlie James Gallery

The hair of human beings has a significant amount of lore associated with it throughout time because it is such a highly symbolic part of the body. Hair has had great social, cultural, and economic meaning and in every moment of that history the visual arts have...

Fallen Monuments EPOCH

Fallen Monuments
EPOCH

As a virtual reality artist-run space (blessedly, no goggles are required) EPOCH is the quarantine-induced experimental project of its founder Peter Wu, an acclaimed artist whose own work has pushed the boundaries and applications of futuristic tech in fine art for...

Lauren Quin ‘Clutches’ Real Pain Fine Arts

Lauren Quin ‘Clutches’
Real Pain Fine Arts

At a time when abstract painting seems mired in self-reference, I itch for shows like "Clutches," Lauren Quin's second solo show in Los Angeles. Quin's paintings are impressively complex. They feel like the orchestrated chaos of Albert Oehlen, but with an affinity for...

Riders of the Red Horse The Pit

Riders of the Red Horse
The Pit

The eclectic group show, Riders of the Red Horse, at the Pit marks the re-opening the gallery after four months of closure due to the pandemic. The show features works by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Amy Bessone, Keith Boadwee, Elana Bowsher, Canyon Castator, John de...

‘Semblance | Sunshine’ and ‘Music to My Eyes’ at Torrance Art Museum

‘Semblance | Sunshine’ and ‘Music to My Eyes’ at Torrance Art Museum

Two lush summer shows are blossoming online at Torrance Art Museum. Both exhibitions are visual stunners; and they continue the museum’s ongoing aesthetic for cutting edge, culturally resonating art. Semblance | Sunshine co-curated by Josh Hashemzadeh and the Torrance...

Quarantined Visions: Part Two (Italy) A Close Look at Quarantine Art from COVID's Past Mecca

Quarantined Visions: Part Two (Italy)
A Close Look at Quarantine Art from COVID's Past Mecca

“Quarantined Visions” continues with a selection of work from artists locked down in Italy. The first installment of this series exposed artwork from China, the country that suffered through the original outbreak and quarantine brought on by COVID-19. Part Duo takes...

Rodrigo Valenzuela at Klowden Mann

Rodrigo Valenzuela at Klowden Mann

Rodrigo Valenzuela pursues a robust and multivalent practice that encompasses lavishly produced and materially rich photography, sculpture, installation and video. At the same time, these pursuits are equally centered on a semiotic, politically engaged post-capitalist...

SHELTER-IN-PLACE: ‘Who Am I?’ Bruce Baillie and Experimental Lyricism

SHELTER-IN-PLACE: ‘Who Am I?’
Bruce Baillie and Experimental Lyricism

As part of a teaching proposal to the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico in July 1995, filmmaker Bruce Baillie makes clear what he believes to be the foundation for any kind useful communication, art, film or otherwise: “I want to present in my teaching,...

SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Remarks on Shit Brown

SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Remarks on Shit Brown

Why does brown always get the short end of the stick? If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down. It’s not fair – earthy, practical, pragmatic brown is so much more than the leavings of a last meal. Brown is the color of the earth, your Sunday school...

THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES Photographs by Lara Jo Regan

THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES
Photographs by Lara Jo Regan

The uprisings and protests over the death of George Floyd erupted in Los Angeles not unlike its legendary wildfires. The flare-ups were largely spontaneous and unpredictable, some small and contained, others massive and out-of-control. Yet all were fueled with an...

Kate Newby at Feuilleton

Kate Newby at Feuilleton

Kate Newby is an artist of the immediate and quotidian. Her work is rooted in place, which she defines through the conditions, actions, and events that occur there. Her investment in the local is often expressed through site-specificity. This exhibition gives its...

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