Arty Nelson

It’s Thursday afternoon in Terry Richardson’s studio on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan: Pantera’s cranking, fashion models parade in and out, and judging by the staff’s nonchalance, one suspects that this is just another day in Richardson’s life, albeit with little of his recent and highly documented adventures in penetration......

Most concept-based art shows suffer from the same malady that afflicts much “conceptual” art: They suck. Or, to put it more mildly, they’re really boring unless somebody with an MFA is standing by to point out all the banal art-history references that the artist has taken great pains to incorporate......

DAN ATTOE’S CHILDHOOD formed a worldview that is equal parts serene and apocalyptic, a place where man hunts and is hunted too, and which the artist often meticulously renders in spooky, sublime naturalist settings. Attoe’s canvases are rife with lone figures embarking on moonlit sojourns. Flashlights, tents and backpacks are......

Art, it has been said (for better or worse), is about solving problems in unique and interesting — and, one hopes, moving — ways. Predicaments arise, and artists like Pae White deal with them in a manner that makes you smile, cry, throw punches in the air, miss your grandmother,......

In today’s “porn by the pound” world, Tracy Nakayama’s artwork is a welcome return to a more natural way of viewing human sexuality. One can practically taste the Boone’s Farm and Kona bud as Nakayama’s multihued, single-ink couples fondle and explore one another in compositions that include ornate tapestries, feathers,......

On South La Brea these days, floating amid the otherwise standard capitalist signage that dominates much of the city’s skyline, there’s a billboard on the southeast corner at First Street that’s well worth a second glance — quite possibly even a full-blown park and gawk. Dangling precariously in the nothingness......

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the publishing industry, like all things cultural these days, has succumbed to box-office fever. Profits, though always king, have become, it seems, the sole criterion of success these days. The upside, if there is one, is that this monomaniacal obsession with......

I am lounging in a blue vinyl art-couch listening to a series of pings and gurgles and tearing noises, as “Oases,” an art show intending to explore the boundaries that separate public and private space in Los Angeles, unfolds around me. The show’s location, dubbed “Lazy J Hollywood,” is a......

Photo by Elliott Shaffner Back in 1994, New Image Art, like so much of what has soul in the art world, began as an “experiment” in the space that Marsea Goldberg had been using as a design studio — she herself predicted it wouldn’t last much more than five months......