Shana Nys Dambrot

Currently on view during regular hours, Christopher Richmond's feature-length video Hyperway is presented in a special matinee screening of the entire film, popcorn provided, on Sunday, Dec. 23....

In the course of perusing the archives, pulling items from a Memory Lane leading all the way back to 1978, I started thinking about the art writing that has lit up the L.A. Weekly pages and website through the decades. So many friends and colleagues who started there and blew up, or who made the city and the paper their new home later in their careers… Honestly, regarding the galaxy of Los Angeles-based art critics, it would almost be easier to list those who haven’t worked here....

DTLA//IRL is a pop-up venture that encompasses an eclectic gallery and retail store, a multipurpose lounge and a special-event space. On any given afternoon (at least from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., plus special events) and some evenings, you’ll find fashion, designs, affordable art, elevated crafts, as well as maybe massage therapy and local bakeries. Sometimes, there’s music and poetry....

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 Venice-based Doug Edge, whose practice combines actions across painting, plastics, photography, the Light and Space movement, and acts of witty, wry conceptualism. His decades of material and intellectual innovation have made him one of the most influential artists and educators in Los Angeles....

Legendary artist Robbie Conal wears many hats along with his favorite “Enemy of the People” T-shirt — painter, activist, satirist, teacher, progressive icon and, of course, all-star among L.A. Weekly alumni. For our 40th anniversary, we look back at a particularly incendiary moment — the Herculean undertaking that was the L.A. Weekly Daily, a run of special editions brought out each day of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, which was happening in Los Angeles....

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 Jay Mark Johnson, whose distinct timeline photographs defy assumptions about linearity across both time and space. Though Johnson regularly practices both sculpture and installation art, it is his proprietary method of capturing images that has piqued curiosity and garnered international attention....

Betye Saar is a true living legend, one of the most influential American artists of her generation and an early star in the firmament of modern Los Angeles art history. Now at age 92, with half a dozen institutional exhibitions open or imminent and the acquisition of her archive by the Getty Research Institute, Saar also is celebrating an exhibition featuring several of her complex, beautifully finessed new works at her Culver City gallery, Roberts Projects....

My Favorite Color Is Red Flag is on view at River Gallery this month — an offbeat gallery space in Echo Park that is its own journey’s reward and the perfect location for painter Adam Mars’ new body of work....

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 and street art phenom Skyler Grey, who at just 18 is already a sensation from coast to coast and around the world. His multilayered cultural mashups are represented in major collections and the pages of Forbes, and he is poised to take Art Basel by storm....