TOTTENHAM CORNER

A New Philosophy of Shorts

  There are few sights more ridiculous than a grown man wearing a pair of shorts.  Back in my day, grown men simply did not…

Live! Nude! Paint!

A Night with Alex Schaefer

Last Sunday, instead of curling up to watch an episode of Orange is the New Black and calling it a night, I headed to Venice…

Alternative Orange

Scenes Behind the Curtain

The artistic landscape behind the orange curtain—aka the Orange County line—is vastly different from that of Los Angeles with its numerous galleries, studios, co-ops and…

Skira Martinez

CIELO: Holding Up the Sky

“People come and can’t find the building.” Skira Martinez smiles. “‘There’s no sign! Where does it say CIELO?’ They have an image in their mind…

Laurel Doody & LAMOA

An Apartment that's not an Apartment and a Museum that's not a Museum

Alongside Los Angeles’ mainstream exhibition spaces, an eddy of alternative art venues swirl for a time, submerge and disappear, enjoying varying degrees of notice. A…

Spaces of Times Past

Shape Shifting

After I received my MFA in the early ’90s, this country was in the midst of a serious economic downturn and alternative gallery spaces were…

AN APPRECIATION

Chris Burden (1946–2015)

Nearly all of Chris Burden’s numerous and generally laudatory obituaries include in the title or first line, “…the artist who had himself shot.” Beyond the…

ART BRIEF

My Afternoon with Ed

I’ve come to know Ed Moses as a result of a friendship with his son, artist Andy Moses. In the last few years Ed became…