by Alicia | Oct 1, 2016 | CRAVE
Artist Jennifer Korsen grew up in the Valley, but her heart beats throughout Los Angeles. Like the freeways and streets that connect every area of this sprawling city, through her work Korsen uses the heart, an organ every living human intimately knows, to discuss...
by Alicia | Jul 16, 2016 | CRAVE
There’s not a young artist or writer today who hasn’t at some point in their career either stumbled upon, been faced with, or become enamored by the inimitable Cindy Sherman. She is the ultimate (though very white and female) art world success story. She is Peggy from...
by Alicia | Jul 13, 2016 | CRAVE
The sprawling group exhibition Shapeshifters, curated by Tim Goossens, showcases five artists whose work challenges social, sexual and gendered norms. It’s a refreshing show to see out in Venice at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, which is located almost on the oceanfront....
by Alicia | Jul 9, 2016 | CRAVE
Curators Hamza Walker and Aram Moshayedi love their prepositions. It makes sense that the name of this year’s Made in L.A. biennial doesn’t have a specific theme, but rather is simply a, the, through, only, a line from a poem by minimalist poet Aram Saroyan. If you...
by Alicia | Jul 7, 2016 | CRAVE
There’s a rumor going around that Richard Prince used to date Cindy Sherman. It was so what seemed to be the perfect art world couple that I tweeted about it after I drove home from the opening of the show Richard Prince: The Turnbaugh Collection (1977–1988) at Edward...
by Alicia | Jul 1, 2016 | CRAVE
Mutant Salon is an electrifying performance collective fashioned for the purpose of celebrating self-care. On Saturday, June 25th from 8:30–11:30pm, Mutant Salon played, performed and roamed in Oculus Hall, one of the many cavernous spaces in the Broad, and on the...