Shana Nys Dambrot

Françoise and Douglas Kirkland's elegant, luxurious new publication, the Physical Poetry Alphabet is a large-plate book offering liberal helpings of fairy dust, haute romance and masterful poses from classical and modern dance, amplified with lush styling and elaborate image structuring — all laid on the foundation of Douglas Kirkland’s famous photographic portraiture lens....

Gray says, "What I am doing is more or less sampling what great pop artists have sampled in the past — be it Warhol's soup cans or Brillo boxes, or Lichtenstein's cartoons or Indiana's numbers. I'm using abbreviated and sampled classic images of pop from the past and trying to combine them into new, relevant and recognizable contemporary pop art.”...

From Jan. 23 to Feb. 17, and from downtown to Santa Monica, Hollywood, Venice, Palm Springs and points beyond, no fewer than 10 contemporary art fairs make for a complete takeover of the visual culture calendar. From the classic and massive to the eccentric and intimate, from the international and rarefied to the affordable and society-centric, from the artist-run to the photo-based, L.A. Weekly checked in with the shows' organizers to get a sense of what makes each of them unique — and most important, what they all love most about producing an art fair in Los Angeles....

Gonzalo Lebrija is one of Mexico's most renowned contemporary artists. Across a connective thematic thread examining the porous borders between life and death, dreams and phenomena, mind and body, eye and spirit, Lebrija practices in a fluid continuum of materials including but not limited to painting, sculpture and video — examples of all of which will be on view at his exhibition opening this weekend at Kohn Gallery in Hollywood....

It’s his 80th birthday the day before the opening of his new exhibition at Leica Gallery in West Hollywood, but photographer Ralph Gibson is all about the future, with the straight-to-the-point show title Digital Color....

An ongoing series of Q&As with L.A.’s most fascinating contemporary artists, introduced in their own words. This week it’s Stephen Leap, a visual designer and lifestyle artist who engages with his personal narrative and the spirit of his hometown community with a poetic global vision and soulfully celestial aspirations....

Because the big gorgeous library downtown doesn't already have enough books and art of its own, perhaps, the Library Foundation welcomes the Mobile Museum Fair to temporarily add to the stockpile of beauty and knowledge....