by Alicia | Oct 29, 2015 | CRAVE
Kristin Cammermeyer’s show at Insert Blanc Press’ Outside Gallery is a curious combination of kaleidoscopic visions that include hanging ornaments that remind me of non-functional bird cages and windmill parts gone astray. Los Angeles offers its residents the gift of...
by Alicia | Oct 22, 2015 | CRAVE
Zoe Crosher’s new body of work LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds at LAX Art (on view through October 24) offers an uncannily beautiful approach to L.A.-specific detritus with a DuChampian appeal toward the question: What is contemporary art? Here’s the gist: Crosher...
by Alicia | Oct 22, 2015 | CRAVE
There are events and world happenings that we all wish we’d been alive to witness. My dad fondly recalls his tripped-out visit to Woodstock, and though he has no photographs from the event, when he talks about it I feel like I was there. Rather than wander down a...
by Alicia | Oct 21, 2015 | CRAVE
“Sleeping less than seven hours per night on a regular basis is associated with adverse health outcomes, including weight gain and obesity, diabetes . . .” I saw this text printed on the screen of another writer’s computer at this café where I was...
by Alicia | Oct 19, 2015 | CRAVE
I’ve never been catfished, and I haven’t seen the movie Catfish either. There’s a fear of online identity that is perpetuated by the internet, that place where people say things that aren’t fact. There are horrifying catfishing cases like one in which a Tuscaloosa...
by Alicia | Sep 29, 2015 | CRAVE
Sometimes when I feel unsure of what to do next, I go and sit on my porch and look at the house of one particular neighbor across the street. I don’t know who he is, but sometimes I see him roll up in his maroon Honda Accord at the end of a long workday, when the sun...
