Shana Nys Dambrot

Every July for roughly the last decade, the good people of downtown’s PØST Gallery stage their legendary Kamikaze Exhibitions — 31 new shows, one every day in July. Sometime in the morning, the artist(s) show up with the work, install the show, host an opening/closing reception from 7 to 9 p.m., take the work down and head out. The cycle repeats every day, including the Fourth of July and all the Sundays, until the evening of July 31....

Pressing on: The Letterpress Film attempts to answer the, er, pressing questions: How will the art of letterpress printing survive in a digital age? Who are the people who will save it, and why?...

After 45 years on the radar, the Woman’s Building is finally also on the map. On June 8, the L.A. Conservancy architectural preservation society formally announced that the L.A. City Council had approved the building’s Historic Cultural Monument designation....

Friends for years, these painters have a close relationship in life and the studio, often showing together by their own and by curators’ choice, as they each in their way pursue an edgier yet perennially technique-driven mode of life-painting. Each describes a healthy competitive spirit of mutual respect and professional admiration which like so many friendships between artists, is super supportive — until it isn’t....

The DCA's new web-based research tool lets you select for whatever factors best answer your questions and tell your story, sorted by zip code, prevalence of public schools, proximity of museums or libraries, by poverty levels, age, race, and so on, to get as clear a picture as possible of access to cultural resources on a granular level. It’s an engaging, surprising, and often moving perspective from which to learn about your own city, layer by layer....

This summer sees the return of the Big L.A. Portrait Gallery to Grand Park — a nighttime art show in which work by a dozen Los Angeles photographers is projected in 100-square-foot images....

We’re only a few days into Pride Month, and already Los Angeles is feeling the love from galleries to brasseries, beaches, dance parties and parade plans. For its part, West Hollywood-based Gallery 825, home to the nearly one century-old Los Angeles Art Association, returns this weekend with the 11th annual edition of “Out There,” arguably its most passionate and popular exhibition (and its most fabulous opening night party) of the year....

FriendsWithYou is the art-making duo of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, aka Sam and Tury to their friends, which includes you. They've been working collaboratively since 2002, starting out in Miami, where they operated a sort of open studio that was not only a workspace but an indie-art gathering place....