"The artist, with little or no awareness of what is going on in the field of physics, manages to conjur up images and metaphors that are strikingly appropriate when superimposed upon the conceptual framework of the physicist's later revisions of our ideas about physical reality. Repeatedly throughout history, the artist...

Today, June 16th, marks the first year since we launched HuffPost Arts. What a long way we've come. At the time, I was grateful to finally have a forum for artists and writers to share their work and ideas about contemporary art; to provide a platform...

In her most recent body of work, "hello stranger," Israeli artist Maya Bloch continues to set herself free from the tyranny of the literal world and creates this new one, in liquid silver, where she introduces a cast of characters that peer through the paint that, mask-like, encases them. A...

It was only nine months ago that the Arts page launched on the Huffington Post, and just five months that Huffington Post Arts' Design Thursdays went into full flight. We had yet to officially celebrate in New York and with so many designers gathered in New...

It's hard to believe we launched the arts section less than six months ago. I consider it such an honor to provide so much oxygen to so many artists and different kinds of art. As we approach end of this year, I've created a round-up of milestones and highlights since...

On what turned out to be "Black Friday" in the late afternoon, I headed east to Beverly Hills to see Joan Mitchell's The Last Decade show at the Gagosian Gallery. I found a parking space a few blocks away and fought my way through...

MOCA shot itself out of an artistic canon Saturday night as it celebrated it's entry into its fourth decade in a happening masterminded artist Doug Aitken. While last year's MOCA Gala had international flair featuring Italian Artist Francesco Vezzoli, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet and New York's Lady Gaga --with...

The introduction and subsequent rescinding of The Gap Logo unleashed a series memories of my younger self and the visionary designer Walter Landor.

I was a freshman at UC Berkeley. Being the always drawing-painting-coloring-designing "creative-type" kid, my father thought I might enjoy a lecture at SFMOMA by the...

I was lying in bed the other night thinking about all the art and performances overflowing out there and thought "I wish there was a quick an easy way for our reviewers to express their opinions-- a short review form" without having to agonize over a longer blog with images....

A transplant myself, I especially love recent New York immigrants to Los Angeles. Their pallor is still a bit pasty and a bright sharpened halo hovers about them like static electricity. Eventually the golden light, the horizon lines and all those "superficial vapid people"...

Great art can transform us. Great performance can transfix us. Great design can do both, and we can use it. I am proud (and humbled) to announce the launch of Design Thursdays, a new bi-weekly feature on the arts section, where we will concertedly splatter the page with articles and...

In Katie Roiphe's recent article "The Allure of Messy Lives" about Mad Men this past Sunday, Roiphe speaks of the current fascination and wistful awe for a world where stylish men and women think nothing of three martini lunches, smoking while pregnant,...

Shshshshshsh... Listen carefully. Hear that sound? The chainsaws and the hammers? There's a large pit where I'm standing where the theater and concert hall are going. And then of course the artist colony is over there, and the beautiful glass and wood dance hall...

"Falling Into Ends" New Paintings by Liat Yossifor. June 11- August 30 Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt Germany | Frankenallee 74 | D-60327 Frankfurt a. M.

Powerful art and extreme nature have a lot in common. This spring when the Icelandic volcano grounded all European planes and the most...

I ask you, is it not refreshing to go to the Huffington Post, skip along the tabs and and go from seeing celebrities, politicians, oil spills, stock photography, the Kardashians and Sarah Palin to Art? As if all this time we were walking down...

About four years ago, Arianna Huffington asked me to blog about my paintings and process as I made them. At first I demurred, saying that it would be impossible for me to expose myself or my work that way. The real truth...

Every woman makes a decision, even by not making one, on what lengths she'll go to uphold her youth and beauty, whether for herself or someone else. In Rachel Hovnanian's current "Power and Burden of Beauty" at the Jason McCoy Gallery, her installation includes drawings, sculptures and film stills...

Rebecca Campbell, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, 2009, avocado tree, steel, velvet, and fiberglass, Windex, glass, and bronze, 13' x 16 ' x 18', image courtesy of LA Louver Gallery

There is a passage in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables...

Luscious. Naughty. Saturated. Decadent.
Such is the moment we are immersed in when we stand in front of the art of Marilyn Minter. Los Angelenos can be in that moment when her show opens at the Regen Projects Gallery this Saturday night. Just like the oozing green je...

My father, Leonard Shlain, passed away three weeks ago. I wrote about the vigil my family had been holding for him the night before he died.

We buried him the next day in a plain unlined pine box -- a green burial -- in a beautiful hillside that...