Shana Nys Dambrot

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Two French Landmarks Get Some Love From U.S. Fans

The American Friends of Saint-Germain-des-Près support preservation efforts at one of the world’s most beautiful and historic churches. And Los Angeles-based art impresario Carolyn Campbell has collected an archive of photographs and source images, plus three decades of sketches, maps and research, to create City of Immortals, a map and legend of the whole Père Lachaise Cemetery....
Anne Faith Nicholls; Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Meet an Artist Monday: Anne Faith Nicholls

An ongoing series of Q&As with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. This week it’s painter Anne Faith Nicholls, who embraces the smooth perfection of surrealist fantasies but inflected with powerful narrative and psychological symbols and emblems of female power....
Poyen Wang

“Atlas Portal” at Taiwan Academy: Two Artists in Between Worlds

It’s not only practical but allegorically fitting that one enters Taiwan Academy’s current video art exhibition, “Atlas Portal,” through a heavy black curtain, into the soft glow of a cozy room, illuminated only by the warm, cool and shifting light of the video works installed around its perimeter. That’s because the theme of the show is the malleable sense of place that exists in the memories of those who live in between nations....
Erica Weitz at Lethal Amounts; Credit: Jonathan Velazquez

Meet an Artist Monday: Erica Weitz

An ongoing series of Q&As with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. This week it’s Erica Weitz, an exciting new voice in photography, whose old-school technical process yields evocative, darkly romantic portraits that are both edgy and mystical....