Harvey Quaytman, Installation view, 2019. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. © Harvey Quaytman Trust, Courtesy of the Trust and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo: Makenzie Goodman. This week, artists use light and pigment to create otherworldly effects, and
Maria Khoreva and Xander in Diamonds by Svetlana Avvakum. This weekend The Music Center opened their 2019/2020 season hosting Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet for their production of George Balanchine’s incredible three-act ballet Jewels. Ahead of their arrival, we got to ask
Photo by Jared Zagha. From the moment you enter the Metropolis for the American Contemporary Ballet, the space breathes intimacy. Situated in a secluded corner of Downtown Los Angeles, across from the Hotel Indigo, the warehouse-esque atmosphere feels more akin
The Iranian artist’s major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump’s America Shirin Neshat’s early life in the US was less American Dream and more brutal reality. The Iranian-born artist and film-maker was 17
Inktober by @art_by_roxas The countdown for Fall festivities began mid-September and jump started into turbo the moment calendars flipped to October 1st. One of the most awaited Fall festivities is Inktober! Starting in 2009, illustrator Jake Parker began a month-long
Photo by Will Davidson The American Contemporary Ballet opens this evening with Death and the Maiden, the world premiere of an ambitious interpretation of Schubert’s composition String Quartet No. 14. Though it is not the first venture into dance for the quartet,
The photos tell a common story we’ve come to expect from media representations of abject poverty. There are the precarious piles of ramshackle dwellings spilling down a steep hillside, where emaciated kids in torn and dirty rags wear pained expressions,
Photography by Cheryl Mann. Closing out the 2018/2019 season for the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, the LA Phil has returned to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion after moving their residency to The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert
Photographer, artist, and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton has made a career out of capturing young people on the fringe, hanging out, hooking up, and chilling out. In 2011, he released Teenage Kissers, a companion to the groundbreaking Teenage Smokers (2000), images from nearly 16 years
After a hugely successful sold out run last year, CASA 0101 Theater is proud to present the fifth season ofBROWN & OUT FEST, A Festival of 11 World Premiere Short Plays and One Original Short Transgender Film Celebrating the LBGTQ LatinXperience. This groundbreaking Festival coincides
The Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. Photo by Harrison Pearl @harrisonpearlphoto. People come from far and wide to attend RuPaul’s DragCon. The event has grown from a subculture phenomenon (driven by the rising popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race), to a huge
The 1960s ignited a generation of activists fueled by inequity, unrest, and uprisings, and the art created during this time was a visual by-product of the nation’s struggle toward equality. But the work of African American artists during this era
Have you ever been to a train station that made you twirl into a tornado of confusion? Well rest assured our beloved Union Station in Los Angeles is quite a different experience. With its well thought out floor plan everything
Born in Tehran, Hushidar Mortezaie immigrated to California’s Bay Area in 1975. This multidisciplinary artist navigates through different mediums amongst which painting, fashion design, silkscreen or illustration. His home country, Iran, remains an endless source of inspiration to him. After
“Ronaldo” by Tommii Lim Tommii Lim makes his return to the gallery world with his homecoming LA solo exhibition “ODD MAN OUT” where he depicts his take on identity in today’s “15 seconds of fame” generation. “This show is a journal
Reed Hutchinson/CAP UCLA “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” I wonder if Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew that when he coined the phrase (originally the French “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”), it would stick
People take art very seriously. Immaterial of the medium or the presentation, it is consistently subjected to an endless stream of dissection, analysis and critique. The implication being that the artist no doubt imbued his or her work with a
Photo Courtesy of Anson Petrick Cue strings. The stage sits ready, a table and chair empty but expectant. Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture croons, almost menacingly, with a kind of harrowing regality affixed to the tone of a large TV displaying a
Selected from more than 48,000 entries, the winning photographs from Smithsonian magazine’s 16th annual competition have been announced. The Grand Prize winner this year, Newest Cowboy in Town, comes from the Mississippi-based photographer Rory Doyle. Below are the winning images from the following categories: Natural
Source: Amber Christine Photography Outside of the Watts towers, riots and zoot suiters, what do you know about the city of Watts? Originally Watts was a railroad town with nothing in it. In the 1930’s and 40’s, Watts was an
Shlome J. Hayun The Fallen Legends Series Photo: Benjamin Busch The genuine enthusiasm artist Shlome J. Hayun shows his art with is contagious. On this clear Thursday night Hollywood was on fire as if it was spring break for adults.
Melanie Martinez There was a time on Twitter when everyone praised a painting. The painting went from beautiful to disturbing when people found out the painting was done by Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Art is art, isn’t it? Or should
Annie Leibovitz began her creative life like so many other photographers of her generation: with a basic SLR camera and some black-and-white film. Years before she set a standard for inventive portraiture, Leibovitz was an art student shooting pictures of
Rania Matar, Marguerita 10, Naccache, Lebanon, 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, and Galerie Tanit, Beirut. (Left)Rania Matar, Marguerita at 14, Naccache, Lebanon, 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, and Galerie Tanit, Beirut. (Right)
