Stories Books & Cafe has been a hub of book, music and coffee culture since 2008. L.A. Weekly spoke to the partners on the eve of this year's Echo Park Rising festival....
The Bendix Building has presided over the Maple Avenue/Santee Alley district since 1930, back when it was the HQ of an aviation company. Steve Hirsh's father, Stanley, bought, renovated, occupied and promoted the building in the 1970s, turning it into the hub of garment-centric production and creative space it remains to this day. But thanks to Steve Hirsh, the building now has a wickedly cool new dimension....
A narrow, old-timey brick alleyway in downtown is blanketed in an all-day shower of rose petals. An abandoned hilltop pool is filled with glow-in-the-dark lifeforms. Fire-ravaged trees are reclaimed, or repaired. A mysterious teahouse in Griffith Park creates an unlikely community of strangers. These and other interventions in ordinary city life are the work of an anonymous collective of interdisciplinary artists who take the city itself as their muse and co-conspirator....
West Adams has caught the eye of a diverse group of gallerists whose backgrounds and programs are as ambitious as they are eclectic. They've moved in slowly over the past three to four years and quickly in the last 12 months. Pro tip: It's called "West Adams" but most of the galleries are actually on West Washington Boulevard, between about La Brea and about Arlington....
The opportunity to tell this incredible city's stories through the lens of its art world is one of the most deeply inspirational and rewarding experiences of my career....
“With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever” (2011) is an expansive, walk-in installation piece with full-surround floor-to-ceiling architectural treatments and large-scale sculptural objects — potted tulips, to be precise....
A snapshot survey with a distinct point of view, “Cosmic Traffic Jam” presents painting-based work by 20 artists of color. Co-curated with two artists, Alex Jackson and Umar Rashid, both of whom have work in the show, on one hand it represents a wide cross-section of contemporary practices....
Known as “the Cardboard Cobbler,” Phranc is remaking ordinary objects (guns, toys, flags) and garments (pretty dresses, sportswear, cowboy clothes) with an aura of childhood, summer and the insidious power of gender norms — all out of paper, cardboard, thread and paint....
A new-ish trend merges the museum shop genre with the taste for pop-up collections, guest-star makers, hyper-local labels, and sustainable, progressive artisanal goods chosen and in some cases commissioned in response to the venue’s programming....
“To experience 3-D,” reads the museum wall expository text, “is to engage with questions about the nature of perception, the allure of illusion...
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