LAURA AGUILAR — SHOW AND TELL
I am a mostly self-taught photographer. My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography makes me look within. — Laura Aguilar SHOW AND TELL—the touring
RUBY ONYINYECHI AMANZE — HOW TO BE ENOUGH
It perplexes me that, technically, all drawn imagery is frozen in the moment and held still in its two-dimensionality. But that doesn't feel accurate at all. I've entered the paper like it was a pool. I've swam in it. The
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE — FRANCES STARK AND A.L. STEINER IN CONVERSATION
Frances Stark is a writer, a professor, a mentor, a mother, a motorcycle land-speed record-holder—a true Angeleno artist. Her recent work addresses and questions the status of the artist-teacher, and the subtle boundaries between the space of the studio and
EMILY JOHNSON — A LETTER I HOPE IN THE FUTURE DOESN’T NEED TO BE WRITTEN
Emily Johnson: I sent the following letter on January 20, 2021 to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to share with them my experience as a Yup’ik womxn and artist with Jedidiah Wheeler, Executive Director of Peak Performances at Montclair
GODARD — THE IMAGE BOOK
Johnny "Guitar" Logan (Sterling Hayden): Don't go away. Vienna (Joan Crawford): I haven't moved. Johnny: Tell me something nice. Vienna: Sure. What do you want to hear? Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you’ve waited. Tell me. Vienna: “All these years I’ve waited.” Johnny:
PAUL R. WILLIAMS — STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and was a resident of the city his entire life until his death in 1980. As the first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects (inducted in 1923), Williams
TAYLOR MAC — A TIME TO BE BORN
On the night of the Los Angeles debut of performance artist-singer-songwriter-actor-playwright Taylor Mac, a catwalk was set up on the lounge terrace of UCLA’s Royce Hall for a pre-show reception. Under the gimlet-eyed purview and irrepressible judgment of a local MC—in drag,
PAINTINGS IN PROUST
Like the labryinthine galleries of the Louvre frequented by the young Marcel Proust and his friends, In Search of Lost Time / A la recherche du temps perdu houses a vast repository of paintings. In the novel, over one hundred artists
ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER — DRUMMING
Out now from Mercatorfonds. With Drumming (1998), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returned, after an impressive artistic journey of almost twenty years, to two of her great loves as a choreographer: pure dance and the minimalistic music of Steve Reich. The result was an iconic