Station to Station: The Train Comes to L.A.’s Union Station
This train traveling from New York to California will take three wonderful, well-paced weeks to comb artistic experimentation into the fabric of the United States. Many things are best done on a slow and steady course; behold, this spectacle on train tracks. “Station to Station” is a series of art installations and musical performances that…
People Are Strange: Mercedes Helnwein’s “Make It Dark” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Let’s not get too bogged down in who Mercedes Helnwein is just yet. Let us, for the moment, focus on the work which, with Helnwein, is a writer’s dream. No matter how you attempt to describe her art, you can’t really go wrong, given that one avoids words like “convivial” and “uplifting”. Helnwein traffics in oblique, moody…