ART + PHOTOGRAPHY
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...
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Artist in Residence: Rebecca Niederlander
"History, context, one’s particular experience with a material, all play a tremendous role in the connection made between an artist and their viewer." Rebecca Niederlander is a sculptor and installation artist interested in revealing cosmic truth. Through...
Robert Irwin: Site Determined
The University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach presents Robert Irwin: Site Determined, exploring outdoor environmental projects. See the first exhibition to probe four decades of the artist’s evolution through rare drawings and models. A rare look into the inner...
DesignerCon 2017 Brings The Creative Juice – Video
Attending DesignerCon 2017 was like walking into a creative wonderland. This annual art and design convention is specifically catered to highlight design mediums like paintings, sculptures, toys, and pop culture art. It's literally a "creative nerd's"...
The “Neo Native: Toward New Mythologies” show at the Sam & Alfreda Maloof Foundation: An interview with curator and contributing artist Tony Abeyta
"We are exploring ways that traditional forms and practices, iconography and ancestral mythologies influence the expression of contemporary Native artists' urbanity, modernity, technology and social priorities." Tony Abeyta Neo...