Although totally unknown to each other, two pertinacious Nevada artists—Kaethe Kauffman in Las Vegas and Nolan Preece in Reno—will soon have their photography featured together in Los Angeles. The two artists each distill a clarity of vision that is metaphoric and, at times, hauntingly nuanced
While many artists pursue other career paths before settling on art, Young-hwan Choi’s disparate journey actually informed his current practice rather than standing apart from it. In the moments when he wasn’t holding a camera, Choi found the very material that inspired him to take more
The dual exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum graphically evoke the life work of a prodigious voluptuary. The accompanying collection of Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe’s lover and benefactor, contextualizes the photographer in the sizzling sexual Zeitgeist of
How did life begin? This question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years, perhaps from the time of the emergence of consciousness, paving the way for religion, which postulated a god or divine being. However, the Greek thinkers Thales of Miletus (624-546 B.C.) and Anaximander
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART The step-by-step entry of the People’s Republic of China into the world cultural arena paralleled the globalization of that arena overall, and at certain times the Chinese presence in contemporary art seemed to overshadow that of any other emerging nation. At
