Sad news from friends Jenny and Charlie: Robert Clark, operator of recently closed East Village gallery 23Project, whose holdings included a Basquiat sketchbook, Stockhausen music boxes and works by aktionist Hermann Nitsch, passed away on Saturday, June 21. A service will be held at La Muse—where he could often be found—on Monday.

Andy Carey wonders what music  looks like

PHOTO by shea M gauer
If you like color and dots, or if Colorforms influenced your early work, then you’ll love Andy Carey’s current show at {open}. “Sound!” has color and dots (and sound, naturally); it’s a new notion about what art is—and a new language with which to talk [...]

Scenes from the East Village’s Tour Des Artistes

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
Through the poppies painted on the windows at Zephyr Vegetarian Cafe, young things and art buffs drifted off into a Wizard of Oz-like daze last Saturday night, fueled by some intense, short-skit theatrics and compounded by good, cheap wine and an entire day spent trekking [...]

Carlos Luna and Wifredo Lam paint a sprawling and intimate picture of Cuba

WIFREDO LAM’S ‘FEMME ASSISE’
There’s no real reason why Wifredo Lam and Carlos Luna have dueling exhibitions up now at the Museum of Latin American Art, but their two shows work well together. Both men are Cuban—though Lam is 67 years older—and both use [...]

Bob Barry’s subjects are focused on playing jazz, and that’s how he photographed them

Los Angeles photographer Bob Barry apparently leads a very interesting life.
Most recently, Barry (whose real last name is Horowitz) has brought us “The Brotherhood: Performance Portraits,” a series of photos of jazz greats up now at Flazh!Alley Studio in San Pedro—and we’ll [...]

Get lost with William Livingston’s pinhole port photographs

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON’S SSAT CONTAINER TERMINAL II
If the time of day and weather outside are just so, there is a moment  as you view William Livingston’s pinhole pictures of the Port of Long Beach when, standing before California United Terminals—two side-by-side photos of what appears to be a dark [...]

Todd Cunningham’s ‘The Good Hours’ examines life’s difficult questions
Playwright Todd Cunningham’s first effort, The Good Hours, about his relationship with a former fiancée who died tragically, bears an apt tagline: “Just when you think you’ve got love right, everything goes wrong.” It’s a metaphor for this production, which has good bones and is entertaining, but [...]

When you’re not committing multiple felonies in ‘Grand Theft Auto IV,’ consider the art

Okay, okay, The Art of Grand Theft Auto IV?
From Rockstar Games, the same people who (cover your eyes) made it possible for us to have videogame sex with a hooker in a stolen car and not pay—and yank a traffic cop off [...]

Dan Fenelon’s sunny folky paintings are giving way to a darker, more mature style

Dan Fenelon’s sunny mixed-media paintings, with influences varying from Keith Haring to Oaxacan folk art, seem like they’re painted with summer in mind. Simple, two-dimensional, somehow tribal: Almost everyone understands them and can agree they’re art, the kind that would look great [...]

Tom Jacobson’s ‘Bunbury’ tries rewriting the classics
Playwright Tom Jacobson’s Bunbury, on now at Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theatre, is a tantalizing “What if . . . ?”—asking a question that it wisely never quite answers.
This being a play, it takes a while before we finally hear it, from the title character (an admirably overwrought Stephen [...]