FRIDA KAHLO AND TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE For artist-photographer Damian Siqueiros, feeling juxtaposed between two worlds is commonplace. Raised in Baja California, a great nephew of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, Damian began a serious study of fine art, in Paris, at an early age. As
PHOTO: STEVEN GUNTHER Every so often even the most consistently brilliant artists may produce a lemon. Sometimes it is the result of experimentation that doesn’t work, but within the failure there are small gems. Other times it is the end product of an ill-conceived idea from
The Radar L.A. international contemporary theater festival opened the Fall season with a wealth of material to choose from in a wide range of venues and approaches. Unfortunately the density of the scheduling and overlapping times across the downtown and westside locations required that one
“How would one create an ecological art work that didn’t make more waste in the world?” This is the question raised by Meredith Monk as she embarked on her most recent performance work On Behalf of Nature. The very nature of such a question forces
AMY KNOLES, WAEWDAO SIRISOOK & MICHAEL SAKAMOTO IN “WHITE SCREEN”. PHOTO: JANELLE WEATHERFORD In our current environment in which we are assaulted by a cacophony of white noise at every turn, a constant barrage of words and images, there is little room for contemplation. Some of
