Art
What's Your Selfie Pleasure?
LOS ANGELES — This week, a new selfie trend pissed people off. Jason Feiffer, the same guy who dug around on Instagram and discovered funeral selfies, discovered the creepy "selfies with homeless people" trend.
Alicia Eler
Art
Man Meets Nature Once More
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Cooley and Philip Andrew Lewis's exhibition Unexplored Territory at Kopeikin Gallery made me wish the artists had taken a hint from Joseph Kosuth and the spirit of 1960s Conceptual art rather than just creating photographs and videos of the age-old man vs. nature battle.
Art
A Well-Oiled Machine Project
LOS ANGELES — Machine Project's mission is simply the creation of new structures and spaces for presenting creativity in its many manifestations.
Art
There’s No Need to Buy a Camera
LOS ANGELES — What are people really saying when they express a desire for a new camera? The question is raised by Brendan Fowler's solo exhibition New Camera at LAXART, where photographs are distorted and transferred to canvas, with old-fashioned camera time stamps stitched on using an industrial e
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Practicing the Art of the Selfie
LOS ANGELES — How many selfies is too many? From teenagers with cadavers and selfie-snappin' toddlers to couples taking "couplies" (just one type of group selfie), the selfie's possibilities seem as inexhaustible as a history of portraiture. Is it narcissistic to want better devices for shooting sel
Opinion
Waxing and Waning with the Stars in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama stands fully formed in wax towards the exit of the entertaining, kitschy tourist trap that is the Hollywood Wax Museum. Celebrity gazing is a thoroughly American tradition.
Art
Peeking into the LA Art Book Fair’s Queer Zine Show
LOS ANGELES — The LA Art Book Fair is for those who cannot afford to buy art. That includes everyone from recent MFAs to working artists, writers and curators, and collectors who like objects that take up space on the coffee table — not the wall.
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Selfies Reflected in Your Eyes
LOS ANGELES — Your selfies are a visual wonderland. This week's images touch on boredom, mother-daughter relationships, photo booth self-portraits as predecessors of the selfie, webcam-induced mirror reflections, and plain old internet "weirdness" that borders on creepy.
Art
Daydreaming of a Star You've Never Seen
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to celebrities, it doesn't make too much of a difference what's real and what's speculation, because everything is part of the same glorified fantasy space. At least, that's what Lenae Day's clever solo exhibition Prescott Pictures, at Mark Moore Gallery, would have you b
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In on the Art Joke: Scott Reeder at 356 Mission
LOS ANGELES — In Scott Reeder’s latest show, he's made sure to drop in an almost unnoticeable banana that, upon recognition of the fruit, appears as just another prop in an alternate parody universe.
Art
Geopolitics Through the Lens of the Beatles
CHICAGO — Iraqi-American conceptual artist Michael Rakowitz works in a liminal space between fantasy and reality, much like an artist who makes fan art. This is a compliment and a reality, for it's impossible to think about the artist without thinking about fandom.
Interview
A Journal for Art That's Purely Digital
LOS ANGELES — Artists who work in the digital realm are increasingly gaining recognition with exhibitions, auctions, and biennials. A new artist/writer-led online magazine called NOOART: The Journal of Objectless Art seeks to further the discussion about this type of work.