If you ever meet Costa Mesa-based sculptor Laurie Hassold, you’ll be struck by her stature and beach-blonde good looks. When she begins to... More >>

Organized in 2004 as a response to Laguna Art Museum’s “100 Artists See God,” Grand Central Art Center’s “100... More >>

My first T-shirt was white, thin, and hand-sewn by small brown children in foreign sweatshops and sold en masse at Christian bookstore Maranatha... More >>

The road mentioned in the impressively thorough Bowers Museum exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” is not silk or even a road, but a... More >>

For those of us inclined toward intellectual pursuits because we want to get off our ass and actually do something—as opposed to being... More >>

When the shutter opens and closes on refracted light and darkness, capturing an image, a record, a frame, is it the visual or the idea behind the... More >>

Three months ago, I lost a job that I had worked at for half my life. When human resources pulled a George Clooney on me, talking amicably about... More >>

Latin American art has gotten a lot of mileage out of both profaning the sacred and sanctifying the profane. Those impulses are in full force at... More >>

Let’s take a moment and call bullshit on Laguna Art Museum’s press materials for "OsCene 2010: Contemporary Art and Culture In OC."... More >>

Have a few too many beers with any guy, and sooner or later, the conversation comes around to Dad.What a great influence he was. The distance he... More >>