December 11, 2008
Why not widen more than your waistline this holiday season? Widen the smiles of the kids at Los Angeles nonprofit Art Share by attending an art show fundraiser hosted by Arts District neighbor Barker Block Lofts at the Barker Block Community Gallery this Saturday. Festivities begin at 3 p.m. and feature art from local artists and Art Share members, musical entertainment, delicious edibles and must-have holiday spirits. Proceeds support Art Share’s programs that address inner-city kids’ educational and social needs using the arts, counseling, mentoring and technology as tools for change. Barker Block Lofts will also donate a portion of their December home sales to Art Share.
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September 30, 2008
Inspired by her love of dance and architecture, Diedre Cavazzi has put a new twist on contemporary dance through the creation of her site-specific dance company, ArchiTexture Dance Company. Cavazzi, artistic director and choreographer of the company, designs modern dance performances in unusual locations – her most recent performance at the Mission San Jan Capistrano. Read More
August 19, 2008
As Ansel Adams (American West photographer extraordinaire) once said, “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” And that’s exactly what Fred Licht strives to do with his camera. Attributing most of his photography to 19th-century portraiture, Licht believes in putting a person in an environment they’re comfortable in, and for most, their home serves as this place. Read More
August 18, 2008
One of the places putting Culver City on the progressive edge of Los Angeles first-ring suburbs is MODAA Gallery – this is the Museum of Design Art and Architecture in the same building that includes Wilson restaurant, the offices of architecture firm SPF:a, and a collection of loft homes. (The building was designed by the firm.) The latest exhibit is “Liquid Light,” billed as “an intimate look at California’s new generation of light and space artists: Roland Reiss, Lita Albuquerque, Alexander Couwenberg, Dawn Arrowsmith, Jimi Gleason, Gregg Renfrow, Michel Tabori, Suzan Woodruff, Andy Moses, Sharon Weiner.” Some of those artists less “new” than others. No matter: The work is new but references California’s contributions to the light-and-space genre. Read More
July 25, 2008
The lights of Santa Monica Pier glowed brighter than usual last week when Los Angeles-based art collective SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) created Glow, a 12-hour, dusk-till-dawn festival. Partly inspired by Paris’ Nuit Blanche (“White Night”) events, Glow attracted over 200,000 people to 21 performances and installations, the brightest Read More
July 24, 2008
On the surface, it was junk. But the organizing eye of Robert Rauschenberg elevated the random into the refined. Rauschenberg’s “combines” – unruly, 3-D collages of found materials – marked the transition of American art from Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock) to Pop (Andy Warhol). But Rauschenberg’s work was always its own animal. Read More
March 20, 2008
Griping about and grooving to the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM).
The Architecture.
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