Teresa Solar Abboud, Untitled, 2017, detail photography from her “Ground Control” solo show at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona; part of our Summer Travel Issue where contributor Leanna Robinson visits Barcelona's underground art scene....
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Online Exhibition: RED!
Wow! I can't believe how many of you responded to the call for entries for RED! Thank you! It wasn't easy narrowing it down, but I have chosen 15 images to share with you. Entries from women out-numbered those from men by an almost 3-1 ratio and that is reflected in...
“Sponsored Video” The Summer of Love Experience at the de Young
At the time, it was a sort of impromptu youth festival, a San Francisco combination of Spring Break and Endless Summer. Young people caught up in nascent social rebellion, many of them runaways, found a focus in the San Francisco Haight district, and there evolved new...
Amir Zaki
Amir Zaki’s lushly photographed black-and-white landscapes introduce tension between formalist notions of timeless beauty and suspicions of digital photography’s reliability—or lack thereof. These photos of California’s coast, drawn from a series aptly named “Rocks,”...
Netflix’s “Medici: Masters of Florence” and a Book That Gives You the Real Scoop
This week’s Image of the Week is by Los Angeles based artist Susan Sironi. Click here to learn more about her and her amazing work. We’re still accepting submissions for the upcoming online exhibition, Virtually Yours. Click here and go to the left-hand column for...
Short Takes: Another Mystery Involving a Russian Ambassador; Renaissance Geometry; Tim Hawkinson & More
I'm happy to introduce a new feature to the blog called Image of the Week. This week’s image is by Minoru Ohira, a Los Angeles based artist who has won some of Japan’s highest honors for his woodworking. Click here to visit his website and learn more about him. _...
Skip Snow’s “Virtual Reality Trump” and a Call for Entries
I’m still receiving submissions of political art even though the deadline for the exhibition has passed. One in particular, however, I want to share with you – not because it is political, but because it addresses some of the questions I’m grappling with about art in...
The Joshua Treenial 2017: Event Horizon
Okay, not to be completely overshadowed by Desert X—which takes place in Coachella Valley, the Low Desert—the Joshua Treenial will be returning to the High Desert for its second iteration with “Event Horizon” from March 31–April 2, 2017. Two dozen artists will be...
Venice dumps on Damien
He turned into a commonly recognized name in the wake of pickling the carcasses of a sheep, a cow and even a shark, in formaldehyde, and suspending them in glass tanks. Be that as it may, Britart star Damien Hirst's work isn't to everybody's taste. What's more, every...
Online Exhibition: Politically Inspired Art: Part 2
Thanks to everyone who submitted work for Politically Inspired Art: Part 2. I received three times the number of submissions as I did for Part 1! Topics ranged from homelessness to guns, immigration, women’s rights, the environment, and of course, the increasingly...
ON THE COVER
Painting by Mauricio Cárdenas, Make America White Again, 2017, acrylic on canvas, included in the Guadalajara, Mexico, exhibition, “Fuck The Wall,” which is a featured article written by Mexican art writer Gerardo Lammers in this issue.
Politically Inspired Art: Call for Entries Extended
Last week’s online political art exhibition was a hit! (Click here to see the exhibition.) However, I failed to put a deadline on the call for entries and I’m still getting submissions. So we’re going to do Part 2 next week. Here’s the info, this time with a deadline:...
Online Exhibition: Politically Inspired Art
Welcome to the blog’s first curated online exhibition! The call for entries was for work that had been inspired by recent politics. I’ve selected 12 from the many responses I received. They represent a variety of media and include work that was meant to be overtly...
Survey Results and A Call For Entries
Thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s survey about how politics is affecting you. According to the survey, a whole lot of us -- 84% -- are running around with our hair on fire! SurveyMonkey generates a word cloud based on text responses -- the more often a...
A Survey About How Politics is Affecting You and a Beautiful Book to Take Your Mind Off It
I want to thank everyone who wrote supporting my political tirade after the inauguration (if you missed it, click here). There were also a few who weren’t so supportive and demanded to be removed from my mailing list. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, don't...
Douglas Tausik Ryder – Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis can refer to processes both natural and supernatural; but the works in Douglas Tausik Ryder’s exhibition of this title, while they reference the commonly understood biomorphic dimension, also encompass a much larger domain: the metamorphosis between...
My Brain on Trump
I finally made my first visit to LA’s Broad museum this week. Even though it opened in September, I waited until I could easily get free tickets online rather than standing in a long line in front of the museum. Who are you trying to kid? You only went because you...
WOMEN’S MARCH LA
This Saturday, January 21st, one day after inauguration day, thousands will take to the streets in Washington D.C. for the Women's March in protest of the incoming president.Los Angeles, of course, could not sit this one out. Holding our own installment, Women's March...
