All posts tagged Los Angeles
The Show Must Go On
When one chapter closes, another opens. The story is simple. One crisis leads to another climax, another climax draws upon a sudden conclusion, and the conclusion brings us right back …
Polaroid Trippin with Derek Akiro
Los Angeles based photographer Derek Akiro describes his work as “lo-fi analogue for high minded low lifes.” Fitting as his work combines the hyper-sexualized low-brow sensibilities with a nod for all …
The Diamond is in the Lotus…
The Earth whispered With a thundering silence The Diamond is in the Lotus #localsonly Free Humanity
Call for Los Angeles based artists
We’re currently looking for artists of all mediums to feature in an upcoming Art Nouveau curated exhibition. Please email all a link to your portfolio to submit@an-mag.com include the subject “LA Art …
Studio Visit: Carlos Ulloa’s “Calamitous Conundrums”
Art cannot exist without the artist; the artist cannot exist without the story; and the story cannot exist without the inevitable enigmas, emotions, and interpretations of the journey. Transferring these …
DJ Adam 12: Being Honest as an Artist
Adam Bravin and I met two months ago for the sake of this piece, but not until now has the final text shown its face. Never has it taken me …
Hugh Leeman had to kill a bird for this
Epilogue is a fully immersive art installation created by Hugh Leeman, Eddie Colla, and D Young V in downtown Los Angeles. It opened September 8 at Hold Up Art Gallery. “Icarus and the …
Everywhere I go, I see the same Homo Riot
Art should follow the example of crime. The glamour that surrounds the criminal would evaporate were he to become visible… -Jean Cocteau, 1951 The genesis for Los Angeles based street …
Three of the Bay Area’s Most Prolific Vandals, present a Vision of our World, after its Inevitable Collapse
One of Art Nouveau’s favorite artists Hugh Leeman recently dropped us a line about the upcoming show Epilogue in Los Angeles at Hold Up Art Gallery across from the LAMOCA. …
Eight Minute Epics Aside, Electric Guest’s “Mondo” Is One The Best Debuts Of This Year
Electric Guest are an LA duo comprising Asa Taccone (providing creamy androgynous vocals) and Mathew Compton. Their debut album Mondo is produced by producer du jour Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton …
Meryl Pataky’s Latest Solo Exhibition “Future Sailor,” Is A Commentary On Universal Connection
We are all molds that are filled with different substance – a delicate blend of our paths, experiences, beliefs and interactions that form our being.
Tobias Keene Believes In Art
World renown painter Tobias Keene reemerges onto the art scene with his first solo exhibit in six years. The message is “beauty, sadness, [and the] inevitability of death and innocence …
High Off An Overtly Fun Disposition, AB Soto Is Like A Piece Of Pop Art Come To Life
Dig if you will, a Hip-Hop culture not glued together by patriarchy or bravado, but actually making good music and having fun. Maybe, the idea is too demanding, but Ab …
Why New Blood, Why Now?
As a bit of a Pop fiend, it was a pleasure to discuss New Blood with Morgan Spurlock; as a bit of a Pop theorist, it’s something of a marvel …
An Unscripted Day in Atlanta with Odd Future
Sunday night/ Circa 9:45 PM/ The Tabernacle Venue, Atlanta, GA: I find my 5’3 self engulfed in a sea of wrestling limbs and damp adolescent bodies. By now, I’ve happily …
ABCNT: About As Acerbic As A Backhand Bitchslap To Your Political Point Of View
In the heyday of rap and hip-hop, when what artists said, sang and did actually meant something, actually fueled real fire, a local from Los Angeles was tagging street corners …
AB Soto Marches to the Drum of his own Beat
Let’s BEY honest, Gay men invented #SWAG. We are deep in fashion, art, literature, publishing and every other industry, but mainstream Hip-Hop. The question is always asked, is the world …
Unapologetically Dressed, Indigo Charlie Impresses the Path to Stardom with her New Single “Float”
Indigo Charlie is by far Los Angeles’s realest female “indie alternative artist.” Taking the DIY approach, Charlie models the hustle mentality when it comes to making a name for yourself …
A Lesson from the School of Graham Knoxx
Good music whispered echoes a hundred miles. Take for instance singer/songwriter Graham Knoxx. I’ve seen Graham out and about at a couple of events in Atlanta. Making her way through …
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