Jim Carrey’s Twitter feed is something to behold. Since the 2016 election the iconic actor has unleashed a torrent of his original political cartoons lambasting the Trump regime with dark humor and bold calls to resistance. Now in an exhibition at downtown L.A.’s Maccarone Gallery, Carrey shares about 100 of the original drawings in a massive exhibition timed to coincide with the midterm elections....
“Meet an Artist Monday” is an ongoing series of mini 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 mixed-media artist Andre Yi, whose practice involves aspects of sculpture, painting, drawing, assemblage and collage....
Armando Lerma, known to many as a member of the former artist collective Date Farmers, offers a solo show of new work this month, in which he continues his experiments with augmented, manipulated hand-painted signs....
You may not be familiar with the 1916 case of Tom Mooney, a labor rights activist convicted of a San Francisco parade bombing that by all accounts he did not commit, but who nevertheless spent 22 years in prison for the crime. Though he's far from a household name today, at the time his situation was quite a scandal, and a lightning rod for political progressives, including artist Ben Shahn....
Muddy Water is a collection of sculptural portraits and vignettes, but it is almost more a holistic installation that contains a broad allegory of trauma and survival, expressed through the individual narratives and their relationships to the viewer and one another....
"Meet an Artist Monday" is an ongoing series of mini Q&As with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. For our inaugural edition, we meet painter Kimberly Brooks, which is only fitting because this serial project itself was directly inspired and informed by the work Brooks did as the founder of the original HuffPost Arts blogs....
This year’s annual Frida show will merge with ChimMaya's other annual highlight, its Day of the Dead show, which opens on Sunday, Oct. 21. As ever, this open call for art (as well as craft vendors) is free to apply and limited only by your imagination. And also by a deadline of this Sunday, Oct. 14....
Jordan Wolfson does not shy away from controversy. His unique mashup of cultural historical tropes with advances in computer technology, such as virtual reality, animatronics and robotics, has resulted in some indelible, unsettling and emotionally inflammatory works of art. As the Broad prepares to offer a special installation of Wolfson’s 2014 work (Female figure), it might expect some mixed reactions as well....
Music & Arts ReSound (M.A.R.S.), is a post-digital audio/visual festival combining avant-garde and experimental music with innovative creative applications of 3-D video mapping, projection and performance art....
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