Shana Nys Dambrot

Monday night's opening party for the Getty Center's opulent new exhibition, Paris: Life & Luxury, was a well-heeled and extremely civilized affair. The solid gold, satin-embroidered, lavishly embellished, glossy-lacquered, ornate frame-laden upper galleries were furnished partly with high-profile loans but mostly with benignly neglected items from the Getty's immeasurably vast......

SCI-Arc is one of the most interesting architecture schools in the world, and not just because of its supremely unique digs in a narrow, blocks-long former trai...

Taking Care: 6 Visual Interpretations offers an only-in-L.A. interdisciplinary experience to fans of music, art, local history and experimental creative collaboration and cultural adventurism in general. Progressive indie rock outfit Explosions in the Sky takes over the grounds of Hollywood Forever Cemetery this evening for a free, all-ages "art and......

"Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities" opened last night at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, and, whether due to the allure of several photographs that had never been exhibited before, or simply to the return engagement of the enduringly popular New York portraits (the giant, the twins, the goofy patriot,......

Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities opens at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills this week. Although the years covered in the survey are 1956-71, the level of interest and excitement in the work of this iconic artistic personality remains as intense as ever — an obsession fueled by the inclusion......

Looking over the gallery openings roster for Sat., April 9, it's clear that spring has sprung in earnest in Culver City. Sparing art lovers the madness of a...

DESIGN Gathering Hooray for Inglewood! The balance of cultural, cocktail, foodie and fashionista power in L.A. continues its steady shift inland. Everyone knows about Downtown, Highland Park, and Koreatown, but the new star on the block, so to speak, is Inglewood. This is partly the inevitable result of artists and......

Author, visual artist, curator and all-around aesthetic provocateur Christopher Russell is known for illustrated writings and haunting mixed-media gallery insta...