Poncili Creación is in LA, preparing to take us by storm with the glory of trash at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. In advance of their November 11 performance, Our Name is Moving, I took part in their creative workshop POSSIBILITIES OF MATTER and sat with them for an...
The first weekend of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has come and gone, celebrating not only the best of music but of visual art, both locally and internationally. I was invited to meet with the slate of artists chosen by Paul Clemente with Raffi...
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has a long-held reputation of being a Janus-faced site of indulgence, friendship, fashion, vanity, untethered joy, and increasing crowds. Upon its much-anticipated return after two years of closure due to a pandemic that...
Catalina Island Museum has the distinct honor of being the first Southern California museum to successfully extract me far from my quarantine pod with the promise of engaging art in situ. The irony of a relatively risky and difficult choice for my inaugural post-COVID...
Frieze Los Angeles is back, poised to take the city by storm once again. Its inaugural run in LA at Paramount Studios in 2019 was greeted with wild enthusiasm by art aficionados and newbies alike. One can only hope a literal storm doesn't follow in its wake as it did...
Last Saturday, the hottest gallery opening taking place was at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles for the opening of Judy Chicago: Los Angeles. This exhibition presents a largely unseen body of early work, reminding us that about 50 years ago Chicago spent the good part of a...
The Roy and Edna Disney / CALARTS Theatre (REDCAT) hosted the 16th Annual New Original Works Festival over the last three consecutive weekends, inviting audience members to step outside our comfort zone to experience three new contemporary dance, theater, music or...
Desert X is back. Its inaugural year in 2017 saw 200,000 visitors from around the world flocking to see exciting, site-specific temporary art installations in the California desert. It was a beautiful thing – no walls, no cost, no barriers keeping anyone from...
Last weekend, the West Coast's longest running photography art fair Photo L.A. celebrated its 27th edition – and like a fine wine, it is getting better with age. This year, Photo L.A. flexed its muscles in a new, expansive home at the historic Barker Hangar at the...
“Freedom Cannot Wait”. “Deport ICE”. “Para Todos Todo, Nada Para Nosotros”. “Everything for Everyone, Nothing For Ourselves”. These are not slogans pulled from defiant posters in one of many protests happening regularly across the United States, as American...
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