In February, LA-Artist went to visit Heriberto F. Luna in his studio space, shared with Pola Lopez, at the 2 Tracks/Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.
A canvas is spread across the wall of his studio. In its beginning stages, it is a representation of “The Universal Game,” a Mayan story about the elevation of [...]
From ABBA to Opeth to the Shout Out Louds to The Soundtrack of Our Lives to the Hives to Dungen to Club 8 to Peter, Bjorn and John, Sweden’s exploding with the most imaginative pop or rock or whatchacallit music on the planet.
1980 marks the year of Rika Ohara’s arrival in the U.S. from her native Japan. At eighteen, she left the place that had been her home to pursue what would become a prolific career in the arts, unfolding and taking shape in all kinds of graceful, messy, and unexpected ways.
Los Angeles Unified School District, a teacher mentors her students while they design and build ‘Thrones of Power and Wisdom’.
This short documentary film captures the creativity, commitment and goals of a group of students in an 8th grade inner-city art class.
Filmed and edited, in part, by the student – artists themselves at Hollenbeck Middle School [...]
Like her music, Lisa Germano is different. Neither she nor her sounds seem capable of selling themselves; they need a nudge. One of the distinct charms of her new album, in fact, is this fine-tuned ineffability. It creates an essence of pricelessness, a quality as rare as Ms. Germano’s charisma. Lyrically sophisticated and texturally daring, [...]
Along with his former Berkeley classmate La Monte Young, Terry Riley is the big daddy of the school of composing formerly known as Minimalist, and best known for groundbreaking works such as In C (1968), A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969), Persian Surgery Dervishes (1971) and Cadenza on the Night Plain (2006). Riley’s curious path [...]
The road that winds to Raphael Matias’ house is the kind of road you don’t know about if you’ve never stayed around LA very long. It’s also the kind of road you love if you’ve lived here. The streets and houses are formed between the dry grassy earth of the wild lands in and around [...]
Last week Jon Gomez invited me to CalArts. I was able to witness him working with a group of young (17 year old) artists as they observed and drew from life. He teaches drawing in an informal environment and encourages his pupils to appreciate light, shape and artistry.
After navigating CalArts’ extensive campus I found myself [...]
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