Gwynedd Stuart

Last year, L.A.-based environmental artist Doron Gazit began installing 500-feet of bright red inflatable tubing in various environmentally imperiled sites all over the world. "My environmental art is now solely dedicated to bringing attention to devastation happening on our planet," Gazit says. "Every installation begins with a long period of......

As founder of the print shop-slash-community center Self Help Graphics, Franciscan nun Karen Boccalero — better known as Sister Karen — is widely credited with fostering L.A.'s once-burgeoning Chicano art scene. In her 1997 L.A. Times obit, Bolton Colburn, then-director of the Laguna Art Museum said, "She put the arts scene......

In the pages of illustrator Jess Rotter's new book I'm Bored (Hat & Beard Press, $25), a dog wearing overalls wonders aloud as a record spins on a suitcase turntable, "Who will be the next person I hope will like me?" A wizard in a floppy hat and celestial robe......

On Saturday, Nov. 5, all manner of L.A. creatives are taking over three levels at the very top of US Bank Tower for our annual arts and culture extravaganza, Artopia.  Expect site-specific dance performances from Heidi Duckler and Teresa "Toogie" Barcelo, video installations from Human Resources and Philip Rugo, an air......

Back in August, L.A. became one of several cities to discover that a grotesque statue of naked Donald Trump had been deposited on a street corner, a pinky-sized micropenis emerging from its nest of golden pubic hair. If it was tough to get through that sentence without acid rising into......

Last October, anonymous NYC street artist Hanksy — a portmanteau of Hanks, as in Tom, and Banksy — gathered 50 street artists from around the country for a takeover of a 10,000-square-foot abandoned mansion in West Adams. From carpeted common areas to dilapidated bathrooms, nearly every inch of the home's......