There are a million brilliant reasons to love Los Angeles, and everyone has their own. Mine is the art. L.A. is a global center of street art, the birthplace of...
Legendary Cool School artist Larry Bell has been a central figure in contemporary West Coast -- and specifically Venice Beach -- art for over 50 years. He’s not...
The performance art piece “In Just a Blink of an Eye” by Chinese artist Xu Zhen was recently acquired by MOCA for its permanent collection. And while its otherw...
War is not healthy for children and other living things, the classic sign says, and we don’t need more evidence to prove it. But considering that an entire gene...
Shirikiana Aina’s 1982 film Brick by Brick was prescient in its examination of the devastating effects of neglect and gentrification on minority communities, ma...
Painter, sculptor, beloved teacher and mentor, former Claremont Graduate University Art Department Chair Roland Reiss has been a pillar of the Los Angeles art w...
Friday night Beyond Baroque does what it does best — host and present a roster of diverse and important voices from the world of poetry. And they do mean the wo...
For the 12th year in a row, the Loft at Liz’s presents its beloved Diverted Destruction exhibition, curated group shows featuring artists who use salvaged and r...
Born in Kanagawa and living in what seems like in near-constant travel between Los Angeles and Japan, Kio Griffith is an interdisciplinary artist working across...
A trio of new exhibitions open this weekend at elevated urban art emporium, Thinkspace Projects, fresh off curating another excellent year of Pow! Wow! Long Bea...