2023
Designed to address the epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. Specifically its tragic impact on the youth.
2022
The week starts off with a triple header of events celebrating words by astonishing women, and moves into art about good and evil, experiential photography and sound about the rainforest, local dance on video...
Bananas bonkers crosstown cannonball run type gallery hopping to ring in the new art season, experimental music and contemporary dance in the park for balance, a downtown group show...
2021
Mari Evans鈥� poem, 鈥淚 am a Black Woman鈥� was resurrected through the 鈥淧assion Power Prayer鈥� exhibition at Band of Vices, featuring abstract paintings by Lisa Diane Wedgeworth. With a singular vision her works extend an invitation.
A new post-digital artist platform launching a biennial, musicians and artists collaborating to evoke the liminality of the Scottish isles.
It is no stretch to say that the COVID-19 pandemic 鈥� principal among several other tragedies, injustices, and horrors over the past year 鈥� has fundamentally altered the way we see our world.
That was quite a day, week, year鈥� And as the stirring brilliance of the poet Amanda Gorman at the inauguration proved yet again, so often it鈥檚 been the arts that have been seeing us through.
2020
In Between the World and Me (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, 鈥淭he entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.鈥�
Curated by Melvin A. Marshall and set to open in celebration of Juneteenth, this first in a planned series of annual invitationals takes a look at art history through a specific lens of intergenerational engagement and discourse.
The painter Grace Lynne Haynes takes a joyful path through some fraught topics.
On view through February 22 at Band of Vices Art Gallery in Los Angeles is a solo exhibition entitled 鈥淲AVES鈥� by artist Shantell Martin.
2019
The new gallery season that exploded all across the city last week simply could not be contained to one night.
2018
In the beginning, there was La Cienega. For a while in the 1960s, the West Hollywood gallery district was the destination center for the Los Angeles art world and beyond. Later, in the 1990s, came Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, then Culver City, and more recently the...