From the Valley to the Beach to Downtown LA, a wide range of entertaining art exhibitions opened this past weekend. At the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, artist Jodi Bonassi launched her retrospective, "PUBLIC SETTINGS… Private Conversations." Showing a collection...
Viva la Vulva
Coinciding on International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, the opening for "Viva La Vulva" had a seamless approach to welcoming dialogue on the topic of empowering sexual health. Founded by Dr. Cara Quant, Panika Kodali, Jeremy Quant and curated by REN Gallery...
Liminal Spaces are Mind-Blowing Places
Liminal: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. "Liminal Spaces" at Jason Vass gallery, which opened Saturday night, occupies a position of cool, whether the boundary is mixed-media wall art, free-standing sculpture, or something in...
Curb Your Art Enthusiasm
The 4th Annual gala at 800Main this past Saturday pulled out all the stops in creating a nexus for young leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators to engage in supporting a humanitarian cause, while being able to expand their art collection and have some fun too....
Three New Buzzy Shows
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles opened three buzzy new gallery shows this Saturday: Louise Bourgeois: "The Red Sky;" Mark Bradford: "New Works;" and Geta Brătescu: "The Leaps of Aesop." Bradford’s large-scale, abstract paintings drew oohs and aahs for their stunning...
Stolen Exchanges
Like most of the longer-standing buildings in the Fashion District in DTLA, their salient nature keeps them obscure. Unless its the Bendix Building with its glowing rooftop neon sign, it attracts art wanderers toward it like a moth to light. The building has made...
Evocative Art All Around Town
Exciting art exhibitions opened all around town this past weekend, Eastside and West. At Durden and Ray in DTLA, “Book Club: Speedboat,” inspired by Renata Adler’s episodic 1976 novel, utilizes the concept of a book club to create a provocative, fun community event. A...
Artillery Launch Party at Station 1640
Artillery’s January/February 2018 Launch Party was held last Friday at the newest Hollywood hotspot, Station 1640. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t take the Metro there, although I will think better next time with the parking situation in Hollywood. The bar...
Weekend Art Spree
Exciting art opened all over the greater Los Angeles area this past weekend, from Lancaster to Chinatown. Monica Wyatt’s exciting mixed-media show in Lancaster, "Continuum," drew a crowd north on the freeway to MOAH: CEDAR, curated by Jill Moniz. The adjunct gallery...
Opie and Bahbah Pack ‘Em In
The spectrum of photography lovers never ceases to amaze when it comes to enjoying art—especially when it comes to re-imagining reality and wishing that which doesn’t exist. This past weekend, Los Angeles has its share of the well-defined, distinguished along with the...
Gankstas, Hipsters, Art Lovers
From an immersive psychedelic installation to on-trend political art, the first Saturday night gallery openings of the new year were bursting with visual and social pleasure. At Jason Vass in DTLA, artist Tony Puryear’s weekend pop-up, gankstas! Know Your...
Toilet Cheer, Surreal Santas
Robolights, the annual open house for a vast year-round, found-art installation in Palm Springs, is coming to a close. Open through January 8th nightly from 4:30-9:30 p.m., aglow with holiday lights, this surreal yet sweet art installation is rich in detail and...
Chinatown Hopscotch
After a momentary pause it feels good to come back and blog for Last Night. With the rolling sexual allegations at the forefront of the media, the opening of SELFHOOD: The Space Between, a collaboration with the artist collective, Honey Power and Nous Tous Gallery by...
THE MIAMI REPORT: Day 1
“What’s Art Basel like?” It’s a question I get asked a lot. Mainly because within my friend groups I’m either the only artist, or I’m the only artist who makes it her business to visit the fairs in Miami. My first time making this trip was two years ago. I didn’t...
Artists Continuing the Fight
A large and remarkably diverse crowd filled the Brand Library & Art Center on Saturday, November 18, for "ONE YEAR of Living Dangerously: Political Art Comes of Age in L.A.," an exhibition curated by artists Joey Forsyte, Lawrence Gipe and Alexander Kritselis, in...
Art, Ice & Lies
Artillery celebrated its November/December issue launch party on the Ace Hotel rooftop bar last Friday. The joint was jumpin’ with nonstop performances, dancing and drinking. Besides the usual suspects—Artillery staff and writers—loads of Artillery fans showed to have...
Lousy Lighting and Not Well-Hung
Clearly I am both not from LA and do not run in VIP circles because I had never heard of the Soho House prior to my invite to see photographer Kourtney Roy’s new collection of works on display there. I mistakenly assumed it was just a cheeky name for a gallery, so was...
Politically Powerful and Often Seductive
On Saturday afternoon, the Millard Sheets Art Center at the Fairplex in Pomona hosted dialogue between UCLA art historian Charlene Villasenor Black and exhibiting artist Judithe Hernandez. The current show "One Path Two Journeys" is a PST LA/LA offering, pairing...