ART + PHOTOGRAPHY
A STEP BEYOND: Contemporary Footwear, Functional to Fanciful
The Los Angeles art world, like the broader society, is struggling with how to continue to operate during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Art galleries and museums all over the Southland have shuttered their doors and installations have languished in darkened rooms, without...
In Memorium: Peter Loughrey, Los Angeles Art and Design expert + Founder of Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Los Angeles has lost a pillar of the art community. Peter Loughrey, respected art dealer and the founder of the venerable Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) has passed away at the all too young age of 52, after a year long struggle with cancer. Loughrey was a...
MICHAEL ARNTZ: CALIFORNIA CLAY MASTER
“I wanted to make a statement in clay” – M. Arntz Southern California is rich with historically important artists and makers. In the mid 20th Century, trail-blazing craftspeople and designers of all kinds were working up-and-down the California coast, creating...
The Art of Wood
The art of making furniture is universal—it is a craft, an ancient craft that requires patience and a profound knowledge of wood. Japan is nearly 70% forest, which has provided an ample supply—dating back 1,300 years. Perched in the retail epicenter of Hollywood and...
Art Comes to LA!
Superfine! Art Fair is returning to the Magic Box @ The Reef in DTLA for its second LA edition, February 6 - 9, 2020. Throughout the four-day fair, visitors will have the unique opportunity to meet and connect directly with 60+ top local and international artists,...
Portfolio: Don Saban
Don Saban knows LA; he's photographed it for a long time yielding images that are difficult to pin down in time. In fact, his eye for details found in Los Angeles create a visual proposition that they could be places found in Europe. His works has range—deep, black...
Mark Your Calendar: Stanley Kubrick
For those who know him as a filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick’s early career as a photojournalist is a revelation. In 1945, the future director of such classic works as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) was just a teenager—but one with an uncanny...
Generation Z: A Photographic Series By Jennifer Blue
AN INTERVIeW WITH Jennifer Blue The world of Jennifer Blue is teeming with visual ideas—and with her new series, GEN Z, she captures in the most straight-forward manner, the faces of a generation. Her past investigations into image have produced...
Outfest: STEVEN ARNOLD: HEAVENLY BODIES
Steven F. Arnold (1943–1994) Born in Oakland, Ca., he moved to Los Angeles and set up a studio on the bend of Beverly and Virgil. His studio was dark—only when he lite it did you see all the extravangrant props and elements...
NEW TO SOCAL MAG! L.A. DEE DA 2.0!
THIS WEEK: DANCES WITH FILMS FESTIVAL, WONDERWORLD LA DANCES WITH FILMS The opening night green-carpet event for the Dancing With Films indie film festival took place in the gorgeous and historic lobby of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, directly across from the TCL...
HERBERT LIST: Young Men & Still Lifes
The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Young Men & Still Lifes by German photographer, Herbert List --- The first exhibition of his legendary homoerotic male nudes in Los Angeles in over 25 years. List's playful but austere, classically...
At the Skirball
Los Angeles fashion designer Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985) introduced the “monokini,” the thong, unisex caftans, pantsuits for women, and enough inventive clothing to earn him a worldwide reputation. Yet Gernreich was far more than one of the most prominent...
Portfolio Series No.1
Pamela Weir-Quiton – Bandsaw Fashionista
PamelaWeir-Quiton is an influential Los Angeles based woodworker who has been making finely crafted sculptural works since 1965. Her work has appeared in multiple publications over the years, including the cover of LA Home Magazine, and has been exhibited and...