Case Study House No. 22, Los Angeles, Calif., Iconic Girls, 1960; Pierre Koenig, Architect. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute
In Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press), architectural historian Alberto Perez-Gomez puts forward the enticing idea that “true [...]

The Los Angeles art community has long been a global beacon for fine arts photography- from its stalwart art fair Photo LA through to an assortment of iconic galleries. A new venue, less bound to the rigors of commerce and with a more philanthropic premise, The Annenberg Space for Photography, offers an innovative cultural destination [...]

The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art’s (LACMA) permanent collection will always hold a special place in my heart. The home of David Hockney’s iconic (and locally relevant), panoramic Pop painting Mullholland Drive, Kurt Schwitters’ Dada masterful assemblage work Construction for Noble Ladies, and brilliant photographs from renowned artist Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series, [...]

Since the world as we know it continues to shape-shift at warp speed, many forms of media that reflect and respond to culture face unprecedented challenges. Yet innovations occur just as constantly, thanks to the tireless efforts of cultural producers. As part of the zeitgeist, participatory models are finally being embraced by public media, whose mandate to ‘educate, inform [...]

Despite the systems we have devised to measure time, and thus give it the appearance of order and regularity, time remains relative to the circumstances in which we experience its passage. For more than three decades Doni Silver Simons has made marking time into a repetitive image-making ritual resulting in a prolific body of paintings [...]