Karen Moss is the deputy director of exhibitions and programs at the Orange County Museum of Art. Brilliant curator and Irvine Fine Arts... More >>

A quick flip through the record collection gathering dust in my closet (like that of any former punk rocker), and it’s only a matter of... More >>

When culture-jammer and street artist Ron English climbed up a ladder to a billboard and re-worked it so that a toe-tagged corpse lay next to the... More >>

Two hours into walking through the Orange County Museum of Art’s 2010 Biennial exhibition, after eight pages of handwritten notes, through... More >>

The word “ceramics” usually brings to mind functional pottery—cups, bowls and dishes made for actual use or as decorative... More >>

If you’ve been to Comic-Con at any time over the past decade, watched post-Akira anime by Katsuhiro Otomo; read any of the triumvirate of... More >>

Assemblage art can take on as many forms as there are discarded items in a junkyard—and, content-wise, even more meanings. Sometimes, the... More >>

In my less-than-humble opinion, there is no such thing as too much art.There is, however, such a thing as too much bad art, and any gallery... More >>

Whenever I attend an exhibition at Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC), I count on losing several hours of my life wandering its galleries. This has... More >>

The last thing anyone would expect to see in Laguna Beach is a shack. The coastline, which was dotted with surf huts and board-and-batten houses... More >>