With a theatricality apposite to its subject, Bel Canto exploits the rapturous, dolorous and mysterious allure that can make opera, in its premier manifestations, indistinguishable from magic. The exhibition design manages to be both subtle and grand as its labyrinth...
Just last summer and fall, Firelei Báez brought a touch of joy to Harlem, along with a sense of her past. Even with five paintings, at the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library, one might not have seen them as an immersive installation rather than a fiery...
Randy Polumbo graces the cover of our July/August 2019 issue. Polumbo's art is featured in our hotel art story by contributor Genie Davis on page 42 in our print edition and on our website.
Raffi Kalenderian’s solo exhibition “Memento Vivo” (Remember to Live) is a meditation on painting as much as it is a reminder to observe the real world as it rustles around you and enjoy its pleasures. His vibrant paintings—all variations on portraiture—explore the...
Imagine yourself gazing meditatively at a set table in a light-filled kitchen. If you stare long enough, utensils and fruits seem to detach from reality and take on peculiar identities of their own. Lost in reverie, you begin to wonder about the secret lives of these...
This weekend we shook up the typical gallery openings with some new experiences. On Thursday, we kicked off our weekend early and attended Members' Brushstrokes: Beyond the Gallery, for an enchanting event at the Huntington Gardens. The evening included art talks,...
GROUP SHOW, meta-titled, runs from June 27 to August 9 at the Harold J. Miossi gallery at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, and features seven women photographic artists: Brandy Eve Allen, Norelle Foster, Ida Islas, Cat Marcone, Gigi Petit, Aliza Shields, and Zstu...
At the Beacon Arts Complex in Inglewood, artists from studios in this building and from 1019 West just down the road created a 23-artist gallery exhibition, "Converge," featuring painting, sculpture, collage, mixed media, and photographic works. Open studios and a DJ,...
"Life Still," the title of Kirsten Everberg's show at 1301PE, underscores her paintings' implied precariousness. Bringing to mind the line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, "All that lives must die," Everberg's animal subjects appear quite animate; yet as in Dutch vanitas...
Manga, the comic book genre, and Katsushika Hokusai, the legendary Japanese artistic genius who deeply influenced its creative roots are getting a fresh look with an educational twist. Not just visual entertainment, manga's historical how-to process and its real and...
In order to kill time while waiting for John Waters to take the stage for a Conversation to celebrate the publication of his new book, Mr. Know-It-All, at the Renberg Theatre in Hollywood, I made the mistake of checking my phone. One email awaited me. It was from a...
Last Thursday night I braved the fiercely blustering wind and joined the trickle of funky-fresh San Francisco locals snaking through the industrial Dogpatch neighborhood, to land at Minnesota Street Project (MSP), a set of warehouses tucked under the 280 Freeway which...
Tomm El-Saieh's paintings evoke the mystical feeling of hearing incantations in strange tongues. Born of mixed heritage in Port-au-Prince, El-Saieh migrated to Miami at the age of 12. The artist is steeped in Western and Caribbean art traditions; he co-directs an...
Argentina sometimes tosses the world an indescribably singular artist. There was Leon Ferrari, whose Vietnam-era political pieces inspired widespread spite and repression. And now there is Guillermo Kuitca. Since his 2007 Venice Biennale showing, he is perhaps his...
There are indeed ghost towns, despite the well-known edict by Daniel Burnham. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical...
Samuel Little is by all accounts a despicable human being. Convicted of the strangulation murders of three women, he has confessed to 90 killings between 1975 and 2005. FBI agents who interviewed him said Little remembered his victims and the killings in great detail,...
Beauty and the grotesque, foreign and familiar poetically intersect in “the living + soft center” at Kate’s Little Angel, an exhibition space in a renovated garage in the back of Kate Eringer’s home (Eringer is contributor to Artillery's Last Night column). Curated by...
This past Saturday was stacked with a number of intriguing openings, so we decided to join the sea of gallerygoers in a valiant effort to attend as many as possible. First on our list was Wilding Cran Gallery for their opening of Stephen Neidich’s "Making the Rounds...