News
Residents Are Being Priced Out of an Art Colony in Downtown Los Angeles
A Miami-based development agency, Fifteen Group, purchased the Santa Fe Art Colony with the intent to upgrade the lofts into luxury properties.
Los Angeles
Art
An Aztec Opera Beautifully Relays the Birth of Two Volcanoes
LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes debuts a new production that offers a contemporary twist on this centuries-old story.
Performance
The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
Art
Considering Adrian Piper’s Art Alongside 50 Years of Social Change
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Hammer Museum hosts a day-long symposium on Piper's vital work.
Art
How Ellsworth Kelly’s Language of Abstraction Grew on Him
Kelly's early sketches of the natural world would define his work across mediums and throughout his career.
Art
A Drive-In Theater for Artist Films
The France Los Angeles Exchange has invited artists to screen their work alongside films by other artists with whom they find a resonance or kinship.
Art
Artist Mines LA Philharmonic’s Archives to Create Projections that Mimic Dreaming
In celebration of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 100th anniversary, media artist Refik Anadol will transform the building's façade with dazzling projections.
Art
Los Angeles Resists Easy Definition in Aperture Magazine’s New Issue
The issue is as much about prevailing ideas around Los Angeles as it is about the people who lived, and continue to live, there.
Announcement
The First Major US Exhibition of New York-Based Sculptor B. Wurtz Opens at ICA LA
To celebrate the opening of This Has No Name, ICA LA is hosting an Open House on September 30 with an Art Talk featuring curator Jamillah James in conversation with artist B. Wurtz.
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News
Los Angeles Gallery Takes Down One of Two Exhibitions After Anti-Gentrification Protest [UPDATED]
After artists featured in a Chimento Contemporary exhibition engaged with protesters outside, their show was pressured to shut down.
Art
Fax Messages to US Politicians with Striking Political Art
The Los Angeles-based design studio Use All Five has expanded its Artifax project, which uses original artwork as letterheads for messages to local representatives.
Comics
The Freeing Feeling of Working Big
I've begun embracing the huge.