The renowned photography fair, Paris Photo, has been brought to the United States for the first time this year, bringing a Parsian sensibility to L.A. art. Held primarily on the Paramount Pictures sound stages, the environment merges high art and mass media on a site [...]

Clarissa Dalrymple, currator of this month’s group show at the Marc Selwyn Gallery in Los Angeles,  is renowned in the art world for her ability to discover and nurture young artists, one of which being the world famous Mathew Barney. Her astute [...]

It is a unfortunate truth that public art in modern times is often a bourgeois spectacle, which makes the installation by Liz Craft at the West Hollywood Park all the more momentous. Her sculptural installation, “Temple of Folly,” is a [...]

As a young and emerging artist, Dan Finsel first developed his body of work by performing exercises found in the 1974 book The Inward Journey /Art as Therapy for You. These pieces are on view now in his linguistically deconstructed [...]

In 2009, media theorist Laurence A. Rickels wrote on the hit television show True Blood for Art Forum, but his interest in a transgressive contemporary subject matter went further and is established in his vast art collection. Last month Rickel’s donated [...]

Catherine Opie is known predominantly for her portraiture of LGBT subjects, but her new works, on display at Regen Projects in L.A., are a step beyond. Portraiture as well as landscapes are visibly engaged in psychology and art history, and [...]

A long overdue retrospective of Llyn Foulkes is now on show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The extensive retrospective consists of 140 works spanning the breadth of Foulkes’ compelling and under-recognized career. Although Foulkes had a solo exhibit [...]

Even before entering the new Los Angeles restaurant, you are thanked. The restaurant’s name, Thank You For Coming, is embossed on the front windows and it’s easy to feel welcome even before the meal starts. Thank You For Coming is [...]

Pam Tietze takes us down the rabbit hole with her new line of spectacles. ‘H0les,’ a strange yet rather wondrous idea, was conceived through the discovery of crystal glass prisms intended for use in chandeliers. Inspired by these prisms, Tietze [...]

The Bernadette Corporation is, in fact, not a corporation in the traditional sense of the word, but rather a collaborative art project. Some of the art addresses business, whether through following anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in Get Rid Of Yourself [...]

Artist Jen DeNike’s The Star Card  is now on view in Los Angeles. The multi-medium exhibit draws its name from the title of the video, the centerpiece of the exhibit, which in turn takes its name from a tarot card. [...]

In Los Angeles’s Chinatown, a new group show called Raze;Revert;Repeat is displaying work in which artists have transformed, re-contextualized or added to an image. The pieces are striking and intriguing, taking the common art tactic of appropriating images of other [...]

Andrea Bowers presents a new body of work in her exhibit “Help the Work Along.” Bowers’ work is often involved in politics and social issues, and this work follows suit by addressing worker’s rights, gender and immigration. A sculpture echoing [...]

Queer Canadian photographer and filmmaker Bruce La Bruce has teamed up with fashion company Front Row Society and the web TV site ArtStars* to create a startling new line of macabre scarves. Known for his provocative work, La Bruce’s photos often depict naked young men, with figures occasionally [...]

LA based artist Lisa Solberg presents an exhibit titled STALKER, now on view at the gallery THIS. Solberg, who’s known for large scale paintings, has built an installation immersed in different volumetric mediums, something more sculptural. The installation was completed [...]

Love Before Intimacy, Lola Montes Schnabel’s first New York solo exhibition is now on view at The Hole Gallery. Schnabel is  the daughter of the famed painter and film maker Julian Schnabel; and graduated from Cooper Union in 2008. The [...]

A 30 year survey of artist Sherrie Levine is currently on view at the Whitney. The show, entitled  Mayhem, is  not an official retrospective, but a chance for work from the breadth of Levine’s career to be juxtaposed and seen [...]

Pirelli, the Italian tire company, has unveiled the latest edition of its exclusive calendar. Produced annually, the  luxury pin-up calendar brings together the aesthetics of high fashion and erotica, shot by a leading fashion photographer and featuring top models and [...]

Comme des Garçons has debuted its latest fragrance loosely titled A New Perfume. An arcane scent that follows in the label’s tradition of peculiar smells and conceptual design. The fragrance opens with the leathery smell of aldehydes and safraleine accords, [...]

The New Woman’s Survival Guide, an exhibition by Andrea Bowers, takes both its name and much of its content from a 1973 feminist zine. The zine itself documented activities as well as indexed organizations and services during the ’70s women’s [...]

The exhibition of Sterling Ruby and Lucio Fontana currently on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery intertwines the work of two artists, juxtaposing while illuminating their similarities. Ruby is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, known for his biomorphic sculptures [...]

For Spring 2012, J.W. Anderson’s collection focused on transformation and hybridization. Dresses looked as if they had been made by buttoning together multiple cardigans so that sleeves served as tails and sweaters clung to and draped around the body. Menswear-inspired [...]

Graeme Armour’s Spring 2012 collection shows an evolution for the designer. Taking his signature dark, biker-influenced aesthetic fusing it with minimalist, architectural tailoring and sporty accents Armour’s collection felt exiting and thoroughly modern. Tops were cropped or cut out and [...]

With a lineup of models standing still on a revolving runway, London-based designer Mark Fast presented his diffusion line, Faster, in New York for the first time. Monochromatic looks came exclusively in lilac, coral, peach and mint green, with matching [...]

Chris Benz’s collection evoked a kind of kooky, art-loving socialite on vacation; much like Iris Apfel in Palm Springs. Pencil skirts that hit below the knee, structured cocktail dresses and shrunken blazers were sophisticated enough for an Upper East Side [...]

For Spring 2012, Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham of United Bamboo presented a thoughtful collection of elegant, contemporary clothing. Done mostly in black and white, with touches of nude and blue, the feeling was clean-cut but soft. A deceptively simple [...]

Kimberly Brooks’s solo exhibit Thread opens September 10 at Taylor De Cordoba in Los Angeles. Thread marks a departure for Brooks from the realistic style and direct portraiture of her previous work. The new paintings present distorted figures against broad, [...]

Organic by John Patrick presented an eco-friendly collection of classic American sportswear for Spring 2012. The focus was on modern basics with a twist: linen t-shirts paired with leather miniskirts or shorts, crisp blouses and loose baggy trousers. Photos by [...]