As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…
I don’t know if it’s because of living on an island, but water has always been a source of inspiration for me. As a result of this, I have always…
“My Plastic People” is my most ambitious and personal project so far. It has become an essential part of my identity as a street photographer and as an artist. These…
Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington Dorothy, April 2017 232 pages – Dorothy / SPD The lore surrounding surrealist painter, sculptor, and writer Leonora Carrington’s life…
Artwork: “The Evidence of Things Seen” / Chris Barnard / 2016-17 / Oil on canvas over panel / 81 x 54 in. Armillaria, more commonly known as root rot, is an…
While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…
The images emblazoned by Dean and Laura Larson’s European sojourn had an extended stay at the Fine Arts Building in downtown Los Angeles during the fall of 2016. The exhibit…
In his latest presentation at the Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, the iconic filmmaker/photographer, Chris Felver, has ignited the eye, with what I’ll call aleatoric circular forms. Influenced by the…
by which I think you mean—you’ll correct me if I’m wrong—that the arts aren’t really, if we get down to it, necessary. With that, I’m inclined to agree. Neither is…
erry Arena, whose large-scale installation received the Board of Director’s Award at this year’s Baja Biennial, lives in the rich agricultural region of Ventura, California, where she teaches the fundamentals…
1 time scorpion rode turtle and scorpion acted like scorpion. on Nov. 8, 2016, the American Electorate acted like the American Electorate, lol. if we is a living thing and…
His visual fields impinge the eye as gestural flashes, as interior crystal convening and breaking apart, astral-like, constantly re-forming into astonishing combinations. Each of Baker’s works adumbrate as sigils. In…
Pakistan is regarded as the posterchild of global terrorism woes in the post-9/11 world. The name itself conjures up images of bomb blasts, riots, and frenzied mobs. Mohsin Hamid, prolific…