
In L.A. in the historic Palace Theater on Broadway, a street art duo from Germany, Herakut, will be onstage performing with world acclaimed troupe Lucent Dossier Experience. The two have joined creative forces to create a performance about...
Posted October 12, 2011 | 10/12/11 04:53 PM ET

During the end of September I attended the InterZona festival held as a biannual festival between San Diego and Tijuana. I went specifically to observe a project created by an artist who I have worked with, Alfredo LIBRE, native to TJ but living...
Posted July 13, 2011 | 07/13/11 04:18 PM ET
I went to Manual Arts High School during the fall of 2010, on a tip from some of the street artists who have done work there. It exceeded any description I'd been given or picture that I had formed in my mind. I immediately recognized the value of...
Posted November 4, 2010 | 11/04/10 11:41 AM ET
Angus Braithwaite,The Moment of Conception, JTG Gallery 2010
The Frieze Art festival in London this year opened a window not only onto contemporary art from around world, but also onto the economic climate of the arts market and artists' response...
Posted October 13, 2010 | 10/13/10 02:37 PM ET

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Kofie at opening

A key player in the Urban Art movement of Los Angeles, Augustine Kofie, opened his solo...
Posted September 29, 2010 | 09/29/10 04:34 PM ET
Art helps us to understand - at times only retrospectively - how events of great importance have left their mark on the lives not only of artists, but have also informed the collective consciousness of whole societies. Art is a seismograph of experience which often reveals the common intersections within...
Posted August 11, 2010 | 08/11/10 03:44 PM ET
Hip hop is an art movement. Despite its mainstream appeal, the effects and associations visually and musically echo accredited fine art movements throughout history, and it's been forcefully crashing through the layers of the art establishment over the last decade. But where are you going to go to experience a...
Posted June 28, 2010 | 06/28/10 06:45 PM ET
An invitation to hang out with four of LA's best-known street artists at the biggest art fair in the world? Irresistible. It was an opportunity to be submerged in the environment of installation, photography, sculpture, performance, painting, video art and sheer inspiration at the VOLTA 6 exhibition at

Posted February 17, 2012 | 02/17/12 02:03 PM ET