“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

Since moving here, I’m beginning to wonder if Los Angeles is just a microcosm – I hate that word, but there you go – of the US generally. In Los Angeles, there is a horrific gap between the rich and the poor; general public disregard for public institutions; shitty public transit; overwhelming belief in outmoded or disappeared dreams. Proposition 13 heralded a nationwide tax revolt and subsequent gutting of social services, leading in part to the evacuated and disjunct nation we have today. And if art can do anything in LA, perhaps it is a signal of what art – or anything, or anyone – might be able to do in the US generally, across all of its destroyed or depressed cities and towns.

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (9/20-9/22)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (9/20-9/22)

1. Secret Lives at Night Club Work by Edie Fake and Kevin Killian. Night Club is located at 2017 W. Moffat, Suite 1. Reception Friday from 7-9pm, with poetry reading at 8pm. 2. Apparatus at Kavi Gupta Gallery Work by Roxy Paine. Kavi Gupta Gallery (new location) is...
Rise and Shine, Portland: It’s Time for TBA

Rise and Shine, Portland: It’s Time for TBA

It’s that time again. Each fall, Portland wakes up from its bucolic, sun-soaked summer reprieve just in time for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s (PICA) annual Time Based Art festival, or T:BA. The only thing that can compel Oregonians to put away their...
Knight at the Museum or, Try a Little Tenderness

Knight at the Museum or, Try a Little Tenderness

  In the wake of the recently announced Detroit bankruptcy, and amid the uncertain fate of the Detroit Institute of the Arts’ collection, the Knight Foundation revealed the winners of Knight Arts Challenge: Detroit last week. 56 winners — from...