via Nowness “Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang holed up in Room 34 of Los Angeles’s storied Chateau Marmont for Sittin’ On a Rainbow, a collection of daintily rendered drawings referencing everything from Native American iconography to late artist Dash Snow to rock legend Jim Morrison. “The base of it all is American history,” Lang says of [...]
My good friend Andrew Berardini has curated the first solo exhibition of the prolific, rather eldritch, and completely metal artist / writer / musician / Brian Butler (look at him. Doesn’t he just make Game of Thrones look like a children’s show?) Butler will premier his latest video work, Images and Oracles, at the LA><ART [...]
I’d like to believe I’m not the only who has been awaiting Jeffrey Deitch’s first show as director of the MOCA with bated breath. Judging from the array of events surrounding the retrospective (and the most comprehensive of it’s kind), you can’t wait either. This is art history in the making. Cinefamily is presenting a [...]
“The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators is proud to present “R. Crumb: Lines Drawn On Paper,” a diverse exhibition of work spanning the past four decades by the inimitable R. Crumb. …exhibit features include such counter-culture icons as Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Shuman the Human, Bo Bo Bolinski, Lenore Goldberg [...]
From the R&R newsletter: “Group show featuring Alex Hinton, Austen Stanton, Ben Sanders, Carly Ealey, Cody Comrie, Daniel James Keegan O’Connell, Dave Frey, Emily Ratajkowski, Evan Stink Rossell, Evanimal, Patch Davis, Gareth Stehr, Heather McMillen, Jeben Berg, Jess Sluder, Kate Elizabeth Keegan O’Connell, Mad Steez, Nil Ultra, Rob Bowen, Sean Fahlen, Sterling Bartlett, Steve Saiz, [...]
via Hypebeast: “Opening Friday, January 14 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., THIS Los Angeles and Monster Children magazine host Fierce, a solo exhibition featuring original works by Australian graffiti and street artist Anthony Lister. Fierce debuted this past December during Art Basel at a pop-up gallery space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. The exhibition [...]
via Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in NY: “This November, Queen Sofía Spanish Institute will present BALENCIAGA: Spanish Master, the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain’s culture, history and art on one of its greatest twentieth-century sons, the legendary designer Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972). Hailed as “Fashion’s Picasso” by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga’s innovations transformed the [...]
Wake up! Nurse that hangover and check Hypebeast – they posted a short recap and lots of great photos from the opening of Neckface’s latest exhibition at OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles. These kids here are my favorite (dressed as Neckface drawings? Genius), but you can view the rest of the pics here. -xtina
“Photographer Glen E. Friedman, whose work we featured in a four-part Boing Boing TV series back in 2009, is best known for documenting early Dogtown skateboard culture in the late 1970s and the hip-hop and punk scenes of the ’80s and ’90s. His subjects have included the likes of Jay Adams and Tony Alva; Run-DMC, [...]
On 10/10/2010, the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco will present a special day to celebrate the work of Charles and Ray Eames. From the website: “‘Take your pleasure seriously,’ is a famous statement of American designer Charles Eames, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco intends to do just that. On October 10, 2010, (10/10/10), an [...]
via the Agenda Inc. blog: “Jason Alper, a designer more familiar from his work as the costume designer who created the Borat mankini for Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Bruno is turning his satire to luxury brands. In a new exhibition called “Proletarian Drift and the Enfranchisement of the Bourgoisie” at the Guy Hepner Gallery, in West Hollywood, [...]
There’s a fun interview with artist Eric Joyner up on Arrested Motion. Joyner’s work centers on the subject of robots and donuts…and not much else. He has a solo show opening this Saturday, August 14th, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA. Read the full interview here I’m hungry.
