Shana Nys Dambrot

L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists introduce themselves to you in their own words. This week it’s painter, designer, musician and multiplatform creative Miles Regis, whose socially engaged work blends the vibrant style of his native Trinidad with the edginess of urban Los Angeles....

Interdisciplinary artist Kulov is something of an agent provocateur. The new Kulov 90-15 — deliberately released on Election Day — is their most epic publication to date, covering the full 25-year spectrum of their projects....

Advocartsy has been active since Roshi Rahnama founded it in 2015, staging and supporting exhibitions and other projects supporting contemporary Iranian visual art. But about a year ago, it found a permanent space. The Space, in fact — an exhibition venue in downtown. After several engaging, thoughtful and provocative thematic group and solo presentations, Advocartsy's current installation marks a new milestone — a collaboration with interior designer Ryan Saghian....

"War of Nerves: Psychological Landscapes of the Cold War" explores Cold War brainwashing through contemporary art, ephemera and artifacts from the era. From children’s toys to military training videos, from sponsored protests to very real and risky resistance movements, from comic books to heavy-handed messaging — the major takeaway is not how much has changed in style but rather how little has changed in substance....

“Meet an Artist Monday” is 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, we meet painter, sculptor and installation artist Timothy Warren Williams, whose particular vision merges elements of beach culture and goth, trauma and triumph in his eloquent elevation of salvaged materials into visceral postmodern surfer-noir talismans....

Before there was the current pre-release Oscar buzz for Green Book, before there was that scene in Eastern Promises or that Oscar nomination for Captain Fantastic, before there was the epic cult franchise The Lord of the Rings or his imminent star turn and writer-director debut in Falling, Viggo Mortensen was a passionate young poet, a prolific painter and a naturally gifted photographer....

The Fowler Museum at UCLA is a go-to public treasure for a perennially inspiring mix of cultural anthropology, elevated global crafts, and the contemporary intersections of traditions from every part of the world, close to home and further abroad in time and geography. It's hosting a family-friendly festival and a symposium to accompany current exhibitions about African blacksmithing and Swahili artisans....

“Meet an Artist Monday” is an ongoing series of mini Q&A’s with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. This week, it’s Samantha Fields, a painter whose practice focuses on the distortions inherent in our perceptions of realism, and whose sophisticated style proceeds with an affinity for the unruly....