Shana Nys Dambrot

The Flag Stop art fair at South Bay Lexus in Torrance over Labor Day weekend wasn't billed as an art fair, but instead as an "alternative art experience." In truth, it was both, with elements ranging from a major survey of the work of Bob Zoell curated by Howard Fox,......

Even among the proliferation of architecturally significant private homes that populate the hillsides and cul-de-sacs of greater Los Angeles, and in particular the density of avant-garde constructions undertaken in the early decades of the 20th century, Richard Neutra's oft-renovated VDL House is one of the most photographed and influential. This......

A pair of New York-based but increasingly L.A.-present enfants terribles come together to melt your brain, as Neck Face and Fuck This Life: 2 of Amerika's Most Wanted opens with a reception at New Image Art, the original gangster gallery that has helped define the vanguard of California street art......

As ambitious public art projects in non-traditional locations go, Flag Stop at South Bay Lexus rather takes the cake. The organizers have invited projects from emerging and high-profile curators, such as Howard Fox, Scott Canty of LAMAG, Lily Seigel of MOCA as well as independent and gallery curators from William......

Someday, art lovers will have the technology to attend 50 receptions across as many square miles in the space of two hours — but not this Saturday, when what seems like half the galleries in L.A. simultaneously present blockbuster season-openers. Culver City makes this Hobson's choice a bit easier, offering......

Forget Rome, for the Jancar family, all roads lead to Chinatown. Tom Jancar has been a fixture in the L.A. gallery landscape since the 1970's; his current Chung King Road location has become an epicenter of conceptual and performance-based art. But he's not the only Jancar on the block anymore,......

"Jose Parla: Character Gestures" is only the artist's second L.A. show in six years, but his name is familiar to anyone with an interest in the rise of street art that goes beyond the street. Although known to many as a pioneer with the Barnstormers muralizing collective, Parla has long......

The vivacious exhibition "Ray Turner: Population," currently at the Long Beach Museum of Art, is soon to travel all over the country for at least another two years, but it never was and never will be the same show twice. For every city on its tour from the LBC to......

Contemporary culture's obsession with street art and the rise of lowbrow, pop surrealism or whatever else the broader postcomic, anticanon movements are being called right now has always included a fascination with the personalities behind the visuals. Now the sumptuously produced book Heroes & Villains, from independent artisan press ZERO+......