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Jonathan Hepfer is a percussionist, conductor, and the artistic director of Monday Evening Concerts, the longest-running classical, avant-garde and experimental music concert series in LA. What has it been like reimagining your programming during the pandemic? Over...
TIME SHARE, the latest programming from performance art organization Performa, is live-streaming just in time for your extended quarantine. The online exhibition explores live performance’s relationship to video-sharing platforms, and imagines, in a few select...
William J. Simmons, art historian and Special Projects curator of the Felix L.A. art fair. EMILY WELLS: Your curatorial practice seems to be steeped in your background in queer and feminist art history. How do you see these two as informing each other? WILLIAM J....
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...
When my dear artist friend Danvy Pham texted photos of her works in progress for her upcoming solo show, I replied, "Klimt! But from a feminine perspective." Danvy draws from many such inspirations — Schiele and Picasso also come to mind — but the result is one...
May marks half a century since the student and worker protests against rising unemployment and poverty under Charles de Gaulle’s conservative government in France. In May 1968, students and faculty at the L’ecole des Beaux-Arts took over the lithography studio and...
French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, "Beau doublé, Monsieur le marquis! Sophie Calle et son invitée Serena Carone" is Calle’s first exhibition in France since her retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2003,...
“My plan was never to get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn’t even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”...
Melanie Pullen invites me into her sunny apartment as she cleans up from a party the night before, “This is why I left New York!” she says, gesturing to full-length windows with a sweeping view of Koreatown. “All this room!”Pullen’s enthusiasm for Los Angeles is apt,...
One of Los Angeles–based artist Audrey Wollen’s Instagram posts features an undated 1890s painting in which a nude woman reclines, examining herself in a mirror she is holding up to her face. Red beads are wrapped around the woman’s neck and ankle, bringing to mind...
It’s not every day that a public university art museum, outside the Hammer Museum, features an amazing show with cutting-edge artists. So when I saw the "Second Wave" exhibition at UC Riverside where I attend graduate school, I just had to chat with UCR ARTSblock...
In her solo exhibit at Chainlink Gallery, Lithuanian artist Gedvile Grace Bunikyte demonstrates how the dichotomy between simple shapes and complexity of mind is one of the most compelling spaces in which to create. Her work, which consists largely of drawings and...
When I enter the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive for the first time, I know that I have not viewed art in any space like it before. The venue bridges the gap between gallery space and archive —the exhibit’s content is displayed among boxes of materials, shelves of...
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