Meet an Artist Monday: York Chang
York Chang is a unique presence in the L.A. Art world, a consummate practitioner of multidextrous concept-driven painting and sculpture who is also a practicing lawyer. Although his art is not about...
View ArticleParadise::Parallax in the High Desert at the Joshua Treenial
The new edition of the Joshua Treenial art festival is this weekend, April 12-14. Along the Pioneertown/Joshua Tree/29 Palms continuum, with a gathering and performance hub at BOXOProjects, a...
View ArticleThe Other Thing in Coachella: Last Call for Desert X
In case you haven't heard, there is a very special reason to visit the Coachella Valley over the next two weeks. No, besides that. The 2019 edition of the sprawling Desert X land art biennial ends on...
View ArticleMeet an Artist Monday: Carmen Argote
Carmen Argote works across disciplines of sculpture, installation, performance, painting and all the in-betweens, to explore idea about architecture, the body, and the intersection of personal and...
View ArticleAltered State of the Art: Our 4/20 Weekend Gallery Picks
If the exhibition names and themes of this weekend’s gallery offerings are any indication, it seems that the Los Angeles art world has embraced the advent of mainstream cannabis culture — or at the...
View ArticleSoul of a Nation: A Tale of Afros, Assemblage, Abstraction and Affirmation
The clap of a hand, the clench of a fist. The blare of a horn, the power of a vote. The stroke of a brush. These all stir the soul at the Broad’s presentation of Soul of A Nation. While there’s much to...
View ArticleFall In Love with Les Amoureuses at Show Gallery
Rollicking technicolor fauvism, intricate cut paper interiors, performance-derived photographs, and flirty sculpture mix things up in the current exhibition at Hollywood’s Show Gallery. Les Amoureuses,...
View ArticleMeat and Mysticism at a Hollywood Art Gallery
Artists from along a Denmark-United States-Sweden community continuum converge on Hollywood's Noysky Projects for a group show interrogating the tendency of both modern life and contemporary art to...
View ArticleDavid Hammons: Everything Along the Way
When the new David Hammons show opens at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles on May 18 it will be, we are told, the largest solo gallery presentation of the artist's career — and saliently, the first solo...
View ArticleWe Rise Los Angeles and the Art of Mental Health
Part massive interdisciplinary art exhibition, part civic and policy-minded symposium, part public health festival, part community meet-up spot, WE RISE LA is all of these things and more. A ten-day...
View ArticleAs It Turns 21, Art Share L.A. Is Keeping Art — and Artists — in the Arts...
The old factory building on the corner of E. 4th Place and S. Hewitt Street in the Arts District is covered in a dynamic angular mural by Danish artist Mikael B. that resembles neon-colored crystals....
View ArticleArt Pick: Mike Mollett and L.A. Mudpeople at MorYork
Mollett’s current exhibition at MorYork Gallery's new Highland Park location features a number of his small and large spheres, ball-shaped tumbleweeds made of scavenged materials which can be rolled...
View ArticleArt Pick: Gallery Night at the Bendix Building
You can’t miss the towering red neon sign atop the Bendix Building. Once and partly still a bustling garment industry center of manufacture and merchandising, increasingly, it’s also home to a dance...
View ArticleBook Pick: Jori Finkel’s “It Speaks to Me” Conversation and Signing at the...
The book is must-read material for anyone interested in how art history shapes itself across time, place, and the lives of individuals. But for extra insight, Finkel is joined in conversation at the...
View ArticleArt Pick: Altadena/Pasadena Open Art Studios Tour
Participation is up to over 70 artists showing across 25 locations, from schools and private homes to dedicated art buildings, emporiums and collectives, many of which have live music, food and other...
View ArticleMeet an Artist Monday: Galia Linn
Galia Linn is a ceramicist, but her affecting, often large-scale sculptures have evolved to defy conventions of the clay genre. With a deep appreciation for the poignant humanist allegorical potential...
View ArticleArt Pick: Declaration Takes a Holiday
In 2001, Mark di Suvero installed “Declaration” in honor of the Venice Art Walk’s 22nd edition, and its support of Venice Family Clinic’s community-based healthcare mission. Now “Declaration” is...
View ArticleAll the Womxn, All the Cities: Every Woman Biennial Branches Out
The salon-style exhibition is a local outpost of the wildly popular Every Woman Biennial, first conceived in 2014 as a rejoinder to male-dominated institutional surveys in New York (namely the Whitney...
View ArticleDavid Bradley's Dispatches from “Indian Country” at The Autry
David Bradley’s vibrant retrospective transcends boundaries, affirms humor as our best shot. With decades’ worth of paintings, bronze sculpture and a few more starkly political multimedia works,...
View ArticleArts Pick: Bold Pas
Grab a guide map at one of the information booths and stroll down the neighborhood's streets and alleys, where you'll find 17 art installations that are bold in both color and size, and consist of...
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