This un-Christmas week's arts calendar offers multiple contemporary L.A.-centric updates to classic literary and stage productions, some video art, a studio visit to
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Author, activist, and cultural touchstone James Baldwin was born in New York in 1924 and died in France in 1987 -- but his life and words continue to inspire new gen
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Chelsea Wong creates paintings, murals, and sculptures that share a graphically compressed, chromatically vivacious, urban energy. Her depictions of public spaces, a
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Are you really ready to live in this world?? One character asks this of another during a precious crisis of conscience, and it's unclear if she means the art wor
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In an enchanting and original response to the pandemic era's lack of live, in-theater experiences, the Antaeus Theater has released The Zip Code Plays, a suite of si
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The world of online culture is abundant this week, with streaming art house cinema and a timely artist documentary, a powerful one-woman theater piece on activism, o
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Los Angeles based curator Chelsea Rana has organized a remarkable exhibition featuring 16 emerging and established L.A. artists, installed at the MAKI Gallery in Tok
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Erin Yoshi is an accomplished and prolific muralist -- but that's just the most visible manifestation of her practice. At heart a community organizer with goals for
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Here we are again, friends, trying to keep culture top of mind from our desks and couches. Each week I'm more impressed and astonished with the creative community's
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In sense this project is a straightforward documentary. One person, a painter living in Los Angeles, spends the better part of a year making daily observations on li
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Paintings, artisanal prints, and drawings by Joseph Paul Gerges leverage a deep foundation in classical figure drawing in a series of human and animal portraits with
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In the Before Times, the ephemeral, solitary majesty of Andy Goldsworthy's disappearing monuments offered a counterpoint to the culture of economics, materiality, pe
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