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...
Reconnoiter: Jonathan Hepfer
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Performa’s Time Share
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...
Felix Fair Report with William J. Simmons
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....
Artist and Curator Brandy Eve Allen on GROUP SHOW
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...
Danvy Pham: The Woman Within
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...
The Struggle Continues: Atelier Populaire and the Posters of the Paris ’68 Uprising
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...
Sophie Calle at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
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,...
Art Monster: An Introduction
“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: Pictures of Passion
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,...
Audrey Wollen’s Feminist Instagram World
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...
SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of the ’80s in Today’s Contemporary Art
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...
Chainlink Gallery/Los AngelesGedvile Grace Bunikyte
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...
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA)
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...