About Us
Unless you’ve been cloistered in a monastery or have been using a flip phone for the past decade, you’ll know that the hotbed of contemporary art has moved from points East to Los Angeles. With more than 150 already-established galleries and new museums opening at a record pace, this exploding art market is the driving force for ART NOWLA. Tracking the trends and taking readers/viewers behind the scenes, ART NOWLA explores the fine arts – painting, sculpture, photography, assemblages and mixed media – in exuberant and fresh ways. Whether you’re an artist, gallery aficionado, collector or scenester, you’ll love ART NOWLA as we traverse the city for the latest in cool. In other words: Welcome to the woke world of ART NOWLA and follow us as we roam the streets from Hollywood-Highland, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and LaBrea/mid-Wilshire, to the avenues of Pasadena, Culver City and Chinatown. And if you’ve got any hot tips you’d like to share, ART NOWLA is also on the prowl for great writers, interviewers, photographers, filmmakers and artists. Please join us on this aesthetic journey in the City of Angels and tell us your thoughts.
Unless you’ve been cloistered in a monastery or have been using a flip phone for the past decade, you’ll know that the hotbed of contemporary art has moved from points East to Los Angeles. With more than 150 already-established galleries and new museums opening at a record pace, this exploding art market is the driving force for ART NOWLA. Tracking the trends and taking readers/viewers behind the scenes, ART NOWLA explores the fine arts – painting, sculpture, photography, assemblages and mixed media – in exuberant and fresh ways. Whether you’re an artist, gallery aficionado, collector or scenester, you’ll love ART NOWLA as we traverse the city for the latest in cool. In other words: Welcome to the woke world of ART NOWLA and follow us as we roam the streets from Hollywood-Highland, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and LaBrea/mid-Wilshire, to the avenues of Pasadena, Culver City and Chinatown. And if you’ve got any hot tips you’d like to share, ART NOWLA is also on the prowl for great writers, interviewers, photographers, filmmakers, artists and, well, bar-hoppers. Yes, we’d even like to know what’s your go-to drink or bar as part of your art-viewing ritual. Please join us on this aesthetic journey in the City of Angels and tell us your thoughts.
Larry Gilbert
Photo by El Fatom
Larry Gilbert is an Emmy-award winning producer of information series, documentaries, commercials, comedy series and music specials. Mr. Gilbert joined PBS to create and produce a number of specials, including Music in the 1960’s, the acclaimed special, Randy Newman Now, and the singer-songwriter series, along with programs for American Playhouse. Mr. Gilbert produced and created the Actors on Acting series as a co-production with KCET, which earned the Los Angeles area Emmy award for Best Information Series. He served as coordinating producer for the United Nations 50 th Anniversary Special, as well as having worked for such companies as Don Mischer Productions, Lionsgate Productions, Double Eagle Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions.
Victoria Looseleaf
Photo by Mark Hanauer
Victoria Looseleaf is an award-winning arts journalist and has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, KCET Artbound, KUSC-FM radio and other outlets, including her widely read blog, The Looseleaf Report. Ms. Looseleaf’s critically acclaimed cable TV talk/variety show on the arts, The Looseleaf Report, aired in Los Angeles and New York for 22 years, during which time she produced over 400 shows. The show proved a perfect springboard for her print, broadcast and electronic journalism reportage. In addition, Ms. Looseleaf covers music, arts and dance festivals around the world, filing datelines from cultural hot spots around the globe, including Berlin, Venice, Valencia, Lyon, Montpellier, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires and Abu Dhabi. Her novella in verse, Isn’t It Rich? is being adapted for the stage. Her latest book, “Russ & Iggy’s Art Alphabet,” with illustrations by JT Steiny, is now available at https://russandiggy.com.
