Shana Nys Dambrot

When self-taught artist Maury Ornest died last summer, he left behind a cache of over 1,000 paintings and scores of sketchbooks — the full extent of which his family only discovered after his death. This weekend, Ornest will finally have the survey exhibition he never had during his lifetime....

An ongoing series of Q&As with contemporary Los Angeles artists. This week we interview Mallory Turner, an accomplished music photographer whose body of portraiture is expansive in its stylish eccentricity and signature fine-art soul. A new issue of her excellent photo-zine Glister will be out this spring, featuring Turner’s newest portraits of the women of indie pop....

Founded in 2015 as a satellite to Art Basel Miami Beach, Superfine! has editions in New York, Washington, D.C., and now Los Angeles. Promising works by 250 artists across solo and gallery presentations, as well as curated sections, Superfine!’s buzzwords are inclusivity and accessibility, with 90 percent of the works priced between $100 and $5,000. “My favorite client,” Superfine! director and co-founder Alex Mitow, tells the L.A. Weekly, “is a new collector.”...

Studio MLA's end goal is to "transform the city and to make it more livable; to create places that really resonate with the community by collaborating with like-minded professionals." Whether it's about lighting, signage, art — "or trees, which," says principal Mia Lehrer, "do more than just look beautiful. They clean the air, they give us shade, they make a place."...

The Art Palm Springs art fair, while scheduled to coincide with Modernism Week — sharing not only the Convention Center but reciprocal show tickets — is not necessarily about the classic, glossy futurism associated with the chic desert aesthetic. If anything, its roster of about 80 galleries is motivated to bring the disparate practices of artists from around the world to the curious and cultured desert denizens and the Angelenos who make the drive....

When renowned poet and author Fanny Howe’s historical novel “The White Slave” was published in 1980, its story was fairly controversial and rather hard to believe. It would have been impossible to believe, actually, except that its plot — of a boy given by his white birth family to a black woman to raise as her own child, in slavery, on a Missouri plantation in 1832 — was entirely true. Now that man's great-great-granddaughter reintroduces an updated version, "The Wages."...