FAD Magazine covers contemporary art- News, Exhibitions, Interviews and cool art stuff reported on from London
Artist Alexandra Grant, actor and writer Keanu Reeves, designer Jessica Fleischmann, and editor Florence Grant have teamed up to create X Artists’ Books, a small press focusing on artists’ books and collaborations.
Three particularly interesting and vastly different platforms making waves in the art world are SALON by Saatchi and ArtCircle in London and gallery1993 in Los Angeles
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
Bad sound and indifferent crowds have traditionally made galleries dangerous places for live music, but a new breed of curators are changing the tune
This story includes: a German fairytale opera, a DJ straight outta Compton, a retired pro skater, a Pizza Shop, an awesome Conductor, Mozart, Minnie Driver, a house in Beverly Hills 90210, LACMA, €120,000 a lot of Absolut and the artist Frances Stark.
This weeks Young Artist to watch is LA based painter Alex Becerra
Enough of exhibition reviews, I’ll look at just the one work this week *. LA artist Robert Therrien.
L.A based artist Mar Cuervo has a fascination with anger and food.
Artist Laurie Nye’s other-worldly paintings filled with omnipotent female cyborgs and organic geometric shapes feature at the current group show at The Dot Project in London.
Ibid Gallery (London & Los Angeles) has opened a new 13,000 square ft gallery in Downtown Los Angeles at 670 S Anderson Street. designed by wHY
Artist Alex Israel and writer Bret Easton Ellis merged their personal and professional explorations of their native Los Angeles for an exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills as part of its annual Oscar show program.
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
In its enormous new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an inaugural exhibition comprised solely of sculptures by female artists, making a case that the classtic story of art after modernism is sexist and incomplete
OPEN CALL 2016 Month of Photography Los Angeles
Sprüth Magers open their new gallery in Los Angeles opposite LACMA ..
Bret Easton Ellis and artist Alex Israel have merged to produce paintings together
An image of people living on Manchester Ave., their homes constructed of cardboard, plastic tarps, and their own furniture huddles against the chain link fence separating it from LAX. Atop the image, a discarded fridge houses a nylon sleeping bag. Concrete forms cast from the city’s refuse and recycling containers finish the composition.
The centerpiece of the exhibition presents a large-scale installation featuring the props and stage set for Three Sisters, the accompanying film playing in the side gallery. The film tells the story of three siblings who come together to avenge the untimely death of one of the sisters’ young daughters. Evoking tropes of slapstick and farce, the narrative explores themes of repressed desire, fear, loss, anger, and tragedy.
Fast becoming a city of migrating artists in as much it is of angels, as its moniker suggests, Los Angeles welcomes a new museum
Stephen Butler, Chief Creative Officer of TBWA/Chiat Day Los Angeles What’s Interesting?
Conceived and directed by Aaron Rose and Petra Collins, featuring a roll call of NY and LA creative catalysts including Tom Sachs, Jeffrey Deitch, Andre Saraiva, Ana Kras, Aaron Young and Glenn O’Brien
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