Found objects made into art: Timothy Washington’s long-overdue solo show
Read the news and it can be easy to think that art is all about money and glamor: splashy openings, $142 million paintings and rapper Drake snapping selfies at the…
Carmen Papalia and the art of walking blind
Artist Carmen Papalia has performed “Blind Field Shuttle” in cities across North America. In it, he leads a conga line of people on a walk, everyone clutching the arm of…
‘Station to Station’: Riding the art train from Barstow to Los Angeles
For the last twenty days, a group of writers, singers, artists and photographers have been making their way across the country in an old Amtrak train — staging rock concerts…
Photos: In ‘Nothing Left,’ artist Adriana Salazar finds art in what our bodies leave behind
For centuries, artists have been obsessed with death. From elaborate Egyptian tombs to early Christian paintings of martyred saints — to contemporary artists, who use everything from dead sheep to…
Los Angeles school kids make fine art – with socks
In an era of diminishing budgets, arts education in Los Angeles holds a precarious position. According to one estimate, more than half of all students in the L.A. Unified School…
Artist brings DNA processing to life on gallery walls
The O.J. Simpson case will be remembered for a lot of things. A brutal double murder, a slow-motion car chase, a glove that didn’t fit. But on a legal level,…
When freeways meet fine art
Traffic jams, sketchy underpasses, and towering grey walls. Southern California freeways aren’t exactly known for their physical charm. But earlier this month, a new kind of freeway overpass was inaugurated…