Blurring the Lines
It has been nearly 50 years since the contemporary lowbrow scene's inception, through comic and hot rod artists planting their anti-art-establishment roots. Now we are gaining the opportunity to gauge the progress and sophistication of the first few generations of that movement on a more level playing field. More...
Henry Hopkins Dead at 81
One of Los Angeles' seminal figures in the emergence and development of a vital contemporary art scene, Henry Hopkins passed away on Sunday, September 27. More...
Smart Art
What if looking at art not only lifts our spirits and gives us aesthetic pleasure but also makes us smarter? What if it increases our capacity to deal with the tsunami of information that floods over us every day? Brown discusses why our response to such questions should be fundamentally affirmative. More...
Sook Jin Jo
Sook Jin Jo works primarily with abandoned wood, using it in projects that engage her interest in reclamation and rejuvenation. More...
Yinka Shonibare, MBE
In writing to Yinka Shonibare, MBE to gain his support for the first exhibition of his work in the Western United States, curator Julie Joyce likened the colonial history of Santa Barbara to 'geological layers.' More...
Will New Media Ever Serve Its Fifty-Day Suspension?
So much art these days confabulates itself with exploring the line between art and some other endeavor. But can the pretense to abandon the methods and structures that worked for centuries succeed beyond academia? More...
Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford's first job was printing Andre the Giant stickers for fellow RISD alum Shepard Fairey More...
Walls of Algiers
The collection of images and texts here weave a complex picture of the changes wrought by the French presence on the physical structure of Algiers and the lives of its inhabitants. More...
