by Victoria Looseleaf | Apr 23, 2018 | Interviews, Performance Art
It was a cold, wet morning in February of 1997, when I walked into a 3,000-square-foot Northridge warehouse that was sandwiched between Al’s Auto Body and a stretch of doughnut shops and nail parlors. Bundled up to ward off the rains that were then pounding...
by Juri Koll | Feb 17, 2018 | Interviews
Bill Barminski Pop-Up Retrospective Castelli Art Space February 22-24, 2018 For three nights only, February 22-24, a number of Bill Barminski’s works from the 1980s to the present will be on view at Castelli’s great new space on Washington Blvd. near...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Feb 7, 2018 | Interviews
Yes, I’m guilty. Guilty of giving my dear friend, the great raconteur/screenwriter Ivan Moffat, a cigarette (American Spirit), when he was in Cedars-Sinai after having had a small stroke in the parking lot of the now defunct Le Dome. That was June 30, 2002, after...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Nov 16, 2017 | Interviews, Performance Art
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry & NOW Art LA Present War of the Worlds: The Opera Walt Disney Concert Hall & Three Siren Sites November 12 & November 18 It might have been one of the earlier disseminations of fake news, if, that is, the October...
by Lita Barrie | Oct 25, 2017 | Interviews
“Kent is a larger than life artist, an ace painter, who thinks big, and his paintings are big.” – Ed Ruscha In a metropolis famous for signs and street art that we view as moving images through car windows, Kent Twitchell’s monumental portraits create a still...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Aug 25, 2017 | Interviews, Performance Art
Part Kubrickian, part Wilsonian (as in Robert), with a nod to Isadora Duncan, Lita Albuquerque’s hEARTH, a performance installation created with her daughter Jasmine Albuquerque and composer Kristen Toedtman, on view at Sunnylands Center and Gardens (the former...
