Author: Shana Nys Dambrot
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Robert Burden fuses a labor-intensive Renaissance-level figurative technique with the obsessive-collector deep end of the pop culture canon in large-scale oil paintings whose Gen X-coded hyper-decorative motifs have only become ...
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Multidextrous artist Julie Green’s recent exhibition at Keystone Art Space in Los Angeles did something rare—it made the invisible mechanics of sound feel solid. Where the Field Begins to Sing ...
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The Skirball’s new exhibition, Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86, comes with its own playlist (which we highly recommend tuning into as you peruse the show), and there ...
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Across a sweeping multidisciplinary practice, Amadour uses visual art and architectural history as a structural blueprint for an intimate, world-building sound—a transified, technicolor, high desert latter-day Jean Cocteau, whose expansive ...
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The Gracias Gustavo era at the LA Phil finds a fresh visual partner in artist Alexandra Grant, whose kaleidoscopic translations of text-based narrative into pure, expressive image now adorn a ...
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Jewel kinda likes it in her brand new place. Even on the eve of opening her second large-scale art exhibition—this time amid the hubbub of the Venice Biennale—the transition from ...
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Concert posters at The Fillmore were never just advertising. They functioned as part of the entire cultural atmosphere, establishing an amped-up visual experience before a single note was played. Echoes ...
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Go ahead and judge a record by its cover, as our critic takes a closer look at this year’s nominations in the Best Album Cover category. Tyler, The Creator: CHROMAKOPIA. ...
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David Schwartz approaches sculpture as a form of listening. His translucent boomboxes operate like temporal, Proustian portals where sound and memory dance in the light. In Minneapolis he was a ...
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At the intersection of snarling chords and flourishing brushwork, the collective known as Punk Rock & Paintbrushes stakes its claim as one of L.A.’s most compelling hybrid art experiments. The ...
