Art
Sowing Wildflowers Across Los Angeles as Hyperlocal Public Art
Fifty sites in Los Angeles are now blooming with beautiful wildflowers as part of an artist-led initiative to bring back native flora to the city's open spaces.
Los Angeles
Art
Hollywood Counternarratives: A Fictional Female Warner Brothers
LOS ANGELES — Phyllis McGillicuddy strode out of the bathroom, heading toward a podium that overlooked a room packed with fans and friends alike. It had been a while since Phyllis left her home in suburban Glendale, where she lives with multiple cats and manages the Prescott Pictures Society, home t
Interview
An Androgynous Suffragette Portrait, Rediscovered
LOS ANGELES — Mind-altering conversations happen by chance, randomly, when we are least expecting them to occur.
Art
Laboring Over Walead Beshty's Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Walead Beshty’s solo exhibition at Regen Projects, Selected Bodies of Work, claims to “address bodies and labor as they are rendered visible in or on the art object.” Where and what are these bodies and labor?
Interview
Printing the Performative Object
Outside of his own performance art practice, which fluidly intersects with his life, Brian Getnick and artist/designer Tanya Rubbak collaboratively publish the LA-based performance art journal Native Strategies.
Opinion
Report Touts Strength of Corporate Creative Class in Los Angeles
Economics rarely motivate people to go into the arts, and that's fine — what isn't fine are smoke-and-mirror attempts at falsely touting fiscal health of "the arts" under the guise of rigorous economic research.
Interview
Culture By Way of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — It must have been kismet that I ended up sitting next to Julie Niemi at the ridiculous Dave Hickey lecture a few weeks ago. Niemi is one of four founding editors of the LA-based biannual print publication VIA, which is dedicated to the art, food, and music culture of Los Angeles.
Art
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.
News
On Saturday, 20 SoCal Museums Will Be Free
It's a Museums Free-For-All!
Art
You're Just Some Weirdo
LOS ANGELES — Every day, a weirdo is born. Some people feel as if they have the word terminally painted across their foreheads and need no reminders of their weirdness. Others visit artist Kristin Calabrese's studio — as I did right after getting off a plane in Los Angeles, a city I’d never before b
Art
How To Look Indifference in the Eye: New Work by Dan Douke
I am always dazzled by at least one work in a Dan Douke exhibition, and often more.
Art
Making Art in the Midwest
CHICAGO — The Midwest is no place for haters, slackers, and anyone who can't admit that they secretly love hot dogs and regularly daydream about living on a farm, or at least somewhere in the woods.