Shana Nys Dambrot

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...

Since her first novel, I Love Dick, was published in 1997, peripatetic but decidedly L.A.-based art writer Chris Kraus has enjoyed a sort of cult following among the grittier elements of the artsy West Coast intelligentsia. Kraus was an early practitioner of a now-familiar, hybrid kind of prose and e.e......

Viewers can expect optical mash-ups and acrobatic juxtapositions at Katrin Kampmann: Goodbye Tomorrow. The work in this Berlin-based painter's first U.S. so...

These days when people talk about fairy tales, they tend to be referencing unrealistic, magical-thinking, pie-in-the-sky fictions in which everything works out for the very pretty, sparkly best. But the origins of otherworldly folkloric memes like Snow White, Cinderella and Hansel & Gretel are much murkier, violent affairs. Camille Rose......

At REDCAT, all the world's a stage. Geoffrey Farmer: Let's Make the Water Turn Black officially opens on Saturday night in the art gallery that occupies...

Do not be alarmed by the words "experimental music." Ad Hoc #2: David Watson & David Grubbs: A Sonic Exploration of the Beacon Arts Building is not that kind of experimental, although there will be bagpipes. It's presented by the acclaimed group SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space......

A hurlyburly is a real-world Tumblr of sensory and dimensional elements, but it denotes a vision or experience that's more captivating and even funhouse tha...