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'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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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'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 >>
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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 >>
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'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 >>
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[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 >>
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[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 >>
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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 >>
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'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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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[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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
