“Paradise Is Now: Palm Trees in Art” is a must-have book for any self-respecting coffee table in Los Angeles. It's also pretty solid summer reading....
Karen Finley is most famous as a mesmerizingly boundary-smashing performance artist; throughout her written body of work, the purring and percussive performative voice remains very much in evidence even on the page. All the more so in this case, because the contents of Grabbing Pussy are essentially the libretto from Finley’s 2017 stage work, the multi-act one-woman political mad scene Unicorn Gratitude Mystery....
Don’t let the breezy campground- and road trip–inflected names entirely fool you, though, because these galleries are up to some serious business when it comes to contemporary art. Many are artist-run and/or collectives; all offer eclectic, engaging and relevant programming on the edgier end of the new art spectrum. Some even have more new upcoming July and August shows....
On May 1, 2018, a painter, a writer-performer, a calligrapher and a filmmaker checked into a hotel in Little Tokyo. But this is not a joke. Far from it: This has been the inaugural installation of the Little Tokyo Service Center’s new +LAB Artist Residency....
Anyone with reason to drive along Sixth Street between Fairfax and Curson between now and Labor Day might notice a strange new object lighting up the plaza on that side of LACMA’s campus. This is "Solar Reserve,” a freshly site-responsive installation of “Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada), 2014” by Irish artist John Gerrard....
Americans have acquired an appreciation for Bastille Day over the years. In honor of the spirit of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity our sister holidays represent, we thought we'd take a moment to appreciate the presence of French-owned galleries that are currently helping make the L.A. art world the vibrant international place we know and love....
It’s no coincidence that she speaks of this, her first solo show in L.A. in 20 years, as being about the “soul of California.” This is where she was from, after all, and it’s called “Memory Remix.” In it she takes California as both casual muse and actual subject, as well as for what it truly is — her own past....
In addition to a slew of notices making sure we knew they’d be open for business as usual Thursday through Saturday, an alarming number of galleries across the city have planned new exhibition openings for this holiday-adjacent weekend, as though they don’t care you’re trying to take it easy....
Just as the spate of gorgeously produced coffee table books about graffiti and tattoo helped legitimize those once-outlaw art forms, This Is a Pipe: The Evolution of the Glass Pipe and Its Artists presents the stellar works and biographies of the world's greatest living pipe makers....
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