On the morning of the third and final installment of his Los Angeles exhibitions, Ai Wei Wei was disarming yet candid with a small group of persons at the UTA Space in Beverly Hills. Looking a little tired from the past few days, he warmed up as the questions came his way, and offered some…
DetailsSince 1976 I have been making art. I am based in Los Angeles since 1990, but I get around. My longest running art project, and that to which I have the deepest personal commitment, is Words We Have Learned Since 9/11, began in 2005. It has been presented in numerous venues in many countries over…
DetailsHaving worked for the past year as Artist Residency Advisor for the Little Tokyo Service Center, designing and helping manage the pilot year of a new artist residency program, I was thrilled to see a wonderful piece in Hyperallergic by writer Abe Ahn. Abe goes into depth about the ongoing threat of displacement faced by…
DetailsDinh Q. Le is my colleague and friend since 2004 when we worked together on the Board of Directors of Res Artis, the International Association of Residential Arts Centers. Since then we have both remained part of an active group of artist/activists who have become Cultural Producers; artist practitioners whose work, besides exhibiting and writing…
DetailsPST LA/LA has many venues including all of our large museums with wonderful catalogues and ambitious check-lists. And then there are small alternative galleries that received no funding but are part of the overall programming. Such is the case with the indefatigable Loft at Liz’s, voted one of the ten top best galleries in Los…
DetailsLast June 14 at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Laura S. Kiralla, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Success and Dean of Student Affairs at Otis College of Art and Design, and myself, were presenters at the AICAD Student Success Conference. AICAD – the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design – is a…
DetailsFor any of us who have been fortunate enough to spend time on a protected game reserve in Africa, you are seeing the last of many incredible species that most probably will not be on this planet past the end of the 21st Century. This is the subject of two videos brought into sharp technological…
DetailsMel Chin’s Water Resistant Garden Project Rounds out the City of LA’s Public Art Biennial 2016, Current: LA Water This July 16 through August 14 saw a host of innovative projects from national and international artists presented by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Division’s CURRENT: LA Water Public Art…
DetailsArtist Mark Bradford and Clayton Campbell discuss Mark’s art, his efforts as a philanthropist, and how his new organization Art and Practice is a model for his way of sharing his success with those in need.
DetailsArtist Mark Bradford and Clayton Campbell discuss Mark’s art, his efforts as a philanthropist, and how his new organization Art and Practice is a model for his way of sharing his success with those in need.https://vimeo.com/172190929
