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  • Kaba Modern Created a Dance Dance Revolution

    Popping and locking with UC Irvine's dance crew and the movement it helped to create

    By MICHELLE WOO

    They were missing . . . something. Technically speaking, the dance routine was near-perfect. Every jive kick, every side leap, every knee slide... More >>

  • At OCMA, It's Tag Team Time!

    'Two Schools of Cool' pairs older with younger artists to fruitful results

    By DAVE BARTON

    Artists are generally strange, solitary creatures whiling away their time in studios, building intimate relationships with paper, clay, canvas and... More >>

  • Laguna Art Museum's 'Best Kept Secret' Shows What Zot Wrought

    New exhibit remembers when UC Irvine art scandalized OC—and helped to shape the SoCal scene

    By DAVE BARTON

    Documenting the furious creativity of the early years of UC Irvine's School of Fine Arts, curator Grace Kook-Anderson's revelatory exhibition... More >>

  • Dr. Sketchy Offers Ink-Stained Hotties

    Scenes from the Anaheim chapter of the alt-girl life-drawing extravaganza

    By DAVE BARTON

    "We have a request to see more décolletage," says turquoise-haired Kelly Castillo as she adjusts the ponytails of Kelsie Blackwell, the... More >>

  • OCMA's 'State of Mind' Show Us Its Tits?

    The Newport Beach museum's exhibit includes the less-sexy, more powerful side of self-exposing females

    By STACY DAVIES

    A few weeks after my piece about Barbara T. Smith's 1981 "Birthdaze" performance ran ("The Angry Penis Lives"), a friend of mine's artist husband... More >>

  • Barbara T. Smith Shows How the Angry Penis Lives

    The performance artist's 'Radicalization of a '50s Housewife' still struggles for exposure and against assault

    By STACY DAVIES

    Amid the hearty backslapping at lectures, performances, galas and dinners celebrating the Getty's massive Southern California-wide arts initiative... More >>

  • Muzeo Exhibits the Difference

    'Steampunk: History Beyond Imagination' suffers from a conflicted vision

    By DAVE BARTON

    Coined in 1987 by novelist K.W. Jeter, the term "steampunk" is a literary subgenre of sci-fi and pulp stories, a retro melding of Jules Verne, the... More >>

  • Irvine Fine Arts Center Welcomes the 99 Percent

    Three exhibits show the world in perpetual Occupy mode

    By DAVE BARTON

    Curators Dorian Rooney and Carl Berg's "Eyes of the World: Exhibition of Visual Journalism" at Irvine Fine Arts Center begins with what you would... More >>

  • Jhina Alvarado Offers a Time Capsule

    'Cinema Verite' at JoAnne Artman Gallery shows how the artists preserves humanity the old-fashioned way

    By STACY DAVIES

    The other day, a friend of mine posted to my Facebook page an image of Steve Jobs with the headline "1 Person Dies and 100 million cry"; next to... More >>

  • WINNER'S CIRCLE: Tom Chilton, Chris Robinson and J. Allen Brack

    [BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] World of Warcrafters from Blizzard Entertainment

    By MICHELLE WOO

    Embrace your inner geek. It's a motto of all those in the Blizzard Entertainment tribe, and one that Tom Chilton, Chris Robinson and J. Allen... More >>

  • WINNER'S CIRCLE: Rin Tanaka

    [BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] Author and photographer

    By VICKIE CHANG

    Rin Tanaka's love for vintage Americana is one that's hard to find even here—in America. You can call him an American vintage-fashion... More >>

  • Joe Forkan's 'The Lebowski Cycle' Doesn't Abide

    The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion show presents pastiches of classical paintings and the Coen Brothers' classic film, to uneven results

    By DAVE BARTON

    The culty goodness of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski, escapes me. A comic ode to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, with its femme... More >>

  • A Whale of a Tale at the Bowers Museum

    'Scrimshaw: The Art and Craft of the American Whaler' shows the beauty that can come from destruction

    By DAVE BARTON

    Centuries before the United States sent armies to the Middle East to gain or preserve potential petroleum reserves, American ships slaughtered... More >>

  • Rothick Art Haus' Revolution?

    The latest exhibit, featuring Danny Schutt, can't decide if it's pro-uprising or just likes AK-47s

    By DAVE BARTON

    When lymphoma struck Costa Mesa painter Danny Schutt several years ago, he buried himself in the work of the late Russian writer Aleksandr... More >>

  • 'Making Mischief: Humor In Art' Is a Cacophony of Clever

    The latest winner from the Irvine Fine Arts Center does much more than tickle your funny bone

    By STACY DAVIES

    The Irvine Fine Arts Center has been on a roll lately, showing some of the most interesting and alternative work in OC. It scored a coup earlier... More >>

  • Isamu Noguchi's Rock, Paper, Hipsters

    His designs fascinate both for their undeniable beauty and for their intersection with commerce

    By DAVE BARTON

    To get an idea of the uncomfortable relationship between artistic vision and the requisite cash needed to fulfill that vision, one needs only look... More >>

  • Shag and His Trend Chasers

    The Grand Central Art Center's new show on the hipster fave unintentionally proves he's the new Nagel

    By STACY DAVIES

    My hairstylist recently moved her salon to a new location, one that happens to be where my old hair salon had been. In that old salon, a host of... More >>

  • Suvan Geer Has Time on Her Side

    The Santa Ana artist talks about fleeting things and the solace of instability

    By STACY DAVIES

    Suvan Geer lives in a world of transition and disappearance. It's the same world we all live in, of course, except Geer is acutely aware of these... More >>

  • OC Art Galleries Will Feature Japan, Shag and More!

    [SUMMER GUIDE] Highlights from Orange County and Long Beach galleries for the summer

    By STACY DAVIES

    Summer's here, it's a holiday, school is out, now it's time to play—and even if you don't know the lyrics to that famous Annette Funicello... More >>

  • 'Earth-Like Planet' Says Extinction, Shmextinction

    The Irvine Fine Arts exhibit avoids icky humans and focuses on the greener future

    By STACY DAVIES

    A lot of Earth-themed art shows seem to be popping up around Orange, LA and Riverside counties lately. There was "Spaceship Earth" and "The Weight... More >>

  • Get Wired With Alexander Calder!

    OCMA's show on the legendary mobile sculptor (and his admirers) puts the kick back into kitsch, whether you like it or not

    By STACY DAVIES

    The art world is never short on controversy. Is a particular artist's work derivative or is it inspired? If millions love Monet and other millions... More >>

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By JOEL BEERS

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Craftcation Time! Craftcation Time!
By MICHELLE WOO

I've always wanted to be a crafter. I've tried to make things—snow globes, pillows, wedding favors—but nearly every attempt has ended with me icing my hot-glue-gun burns while yelling, "D-I-WHYYYYY… More >>

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By JOEL BEERS

Considering fewer than three out of every 100 Orange Countians refer to themselves as African-American, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, it's unlikely you'll see many black faces in your… More >>

Lookmatic Is Spec-tacular Lookmatic Is Spec-tacular
By MICHELLE WOO

Geek glasses are still cool. Blame the hipsters, or if you are a hipster, blame Buddy Holly (the original hipster). Or, if you're me, blame that damn Zooey Deschanel, whose adorableness… More >>

Kaba Modern Created a Dance Dance Revolution Kaba Modern Created a Dance Dance Revolution
By MICHELLE WOO

They were missing . . . something. Technically speaking, the dance routine was near-perfect. Every jive kick, every side leap, every knee slide had been drilled for hours on end. But… More >>

At OCMA, It's Tag Team Time! At OCMA, It's Tag Team Time!
By DAVE BARTON

Artists are generally strange, solitary creatures whiling away their time in studios, building intimate relationships with paper, clay, canvas and paint, instead of spending their waking moments with other human… More >>

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By MICHELLE WOO

When I heard about the new caffeine inhaler (yes, inhaler), the one that lets you breathe in the equivalent of "a large cup of premium coffee," a few thoughts raced… More >>

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