HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB. © Ed Ruscha. Edward Ruscha Studio.ED RUSCHA is as much a part of LA as its sunsets, freeways, wildfires, and beaches. Lest we limit him as a regionalist, let us remember that California itself is a slippery character, an idea as much as a place. As the artist incisively observed in [...]

Morono Kiang GalleryEven after the Olympics, eyes remain fixed on China – that is, on the Chinese art scene. Over the past several years the floodgates have opened, and even as the international art world keeps penetrating this potentially vast, recently affluent market, a concomitant rush of new art is making its way out of [...]

This portfolio is drawn from an exhibition at the Edward Cella Gallery in Santa Barbara that explores – through the drawings of one of the most important architectural illustrators of his time – the transformation of Los Angeles as it matured from a loose conurbation into the more self-conscious, consolidated, and monumental metropolis we know [...]

Laura Howe, Matrushka Construction
Artist and designer Laura S. Howe sews “Size is Relative” onto some of the labels identifying her clothing line. The practice informing this admirable flexibility can be experienced through her clothing store, Matrushka Construction. Every single one of the garments showcased in Howe’s airy and intimate Silverlake atelier is made by [...]

Audrey Hepburn. © Douglas Kirkland
On November 13, Starlight Children’s Foundation is hosting a photography exhibit and auction in Los Angeles called The Indomitable Spirit to honor the inspirational strength of seriously ill children and their families.
Participating photographers have contributed portraits, landscapes and other images that they feel best exemplify the indomitable spirit that is displayed [...]