Shana Nys Dambrot

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......

SUPER iam8bit is more than the name of the fifth edition of a popular indie-art extravaganza, it's a celebration of our culture's video games, which takes place at its eponymous venue's retro-gamer paradise of a multimedia company. Having recently completed renovations on 4,500 square feet of production and event headquarters......

Parking lots are transitional zones — full of vehicles, perhaps, but archetypal as open, empty spaces with an infinite number of possible functions beyond simply where to leave your car while you attend to business inside. Though often attached to private property, these are public spaces on some level; places......

We live in a world where the deft combination of single images and pithy captions is a dominant method of personal expression (see: Twitter, Tumblr, etc.), and where an editorial cartoon can earn an artist or publisher death threats as well as a dedicated following. Few individuals are as clued......

The best thematic group shows explore not what the disparate artists under their given rubrics might share, but rather how their differences move the chosen topic of conversation forward. The temptation with shows based on race, gender or some narrowly defined subject matter like architecture or food is to look......

The Getty Center, Track 16, and Kopeikin Gallery are all presenting concurrent exhibitions taking on the same subject -- Cuba. Cuba in all its pre-Revolutionary vibrancy and subsequent Soviet-era austerities, it's iconic political struggles, its alluringly exotic aesthetic, and the poignant photogenic splendor of its half-ruined architecture and impoverished population......

George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) is exactly the kind of show MOCA should be doing — a well-deserved, independently curated examination of th...

Street Art's Five-Year Plan This week Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery turns 5, and throws itself a party. Most of the nearly 60 artists in Zero to S...