Dear Reader, Our weekly newsletter has been addressing our shelter-in-place current status and with that I just want to chime in with most of our like-minded readers; we stand in solidarity with the present justified civil unrest. No one is proud of our country now,...
The collage-paintings of Anne Austin Pearce are unabashedly beautiful. Born, raised and educated in Lawrence, Kansas, Pearce was associate professor of art at Missouri's Rockhurst University until this year, when she assumed an associate professorship of studio art at...
Are you still changing exhibitions as you would if open and are the exhibitions virtual-only now? How’s that going? We haven’t slowed our programming at all during quarantine. The opening reception for Sarah Svetlana’s solo show, “Secret Garden,” was on March 7th,...
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
How has exhibition scheduling been changed and how are you adapting? Are your exhibitions virtual-only now? COVID-19 became a serious concern in California just as we were changing out our exhibitions for the spring season. One of CAAM’s new exhibitions, "Sula...
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Are you still changing exhibitions as you would if open and are the exhibitions virtual-only now? How’s that going? Band of Vices leads first and foremost for our artists and their well-being. We recognize and respect the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and have...
Organized by Lawrence Gipe, “Quarantined Visions” is an online exhibition of work created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Beginning with images from China, this series will continue from country to country in collaboration with international curators,...
If you’ve ever thought about exploring video art, this might be when you have the time for it. But having the time doesn’t mean that you have the access. Since these aren’t ordinary times, Gagosian Gallery is curating a program of canonical video art that is available...
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Both cemetery and museum, the often-explored Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris is a stunning open-air space filled with dazzling sculpture as well as architecture. At over 107-acres, it is can also be exceedingly difficult to navigate, this burial ground of highly...
Is your museum still open and operating with certain staff members coming in to work? We are closed to the public but we are definitely still working. We understand losing income is real so we gave our staff new assignments and tasks so they would still receive a...
Inspired by @yrurari's mask we saw on Instagram, we called LA artists to submit their own mask creations. Submissions were either designed as a workable COVID-19 mask for daily use or as a creative endeavor at home while another face covering was used for safety...
We are in a time of global pause. A moment where everyone for the most part, is by mandate, confined to their interiors, forced into slower, humble domesticity; those with children are responsible for lessons, many are taking up culinary endeavors, and for the...
Dani Dodge and Diane Cockerill are two very different artists, both working in the photographic medium during Los Angeles’ great exile inward from the onslaught of the COVID-19 virus. Their recording of this time is both surreal and sublime; capturing these frozen...
I met Julian Bermudez at his gallery, Bermudez Projects, a spare, light-filled space in the Cypress Park area of Northeast Los Angeles. Bermudez was attired in art-world black and sported a thin, pointed mustache. He was bright, energetic and articulate. He started...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reported on March 12th that, as a result of closing until July due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, they would take up to a $100 million loss and are considering the furlough or layoff of many of its staff members. This, for many in...
No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television. Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D. Back to the Future, 1985 It stands triumphantly—a voracious junkyard goat surmounting a catafalque of the written word, a bier of...
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