Chinatown Super Saturday Openings October 10
Art openings hit the road running–Chung King Road that is, this Saturday from 7pm on, when the dreamy walk street reaches fever pitch as hopped up gallery hoppers make Chinatown the art party destination. Highlights: Patrick McGilligan $99 Painting show at Coagula, featuring recent original paintings from the cartoon genius on sale for $99, and his…
Moby’s ‘Innocents’ Closing Reception and Parade
If you happened to be on the block of Cahuenga and Sunset on Friday, March 28, you might have seen a vision that had you questioning whether you were wide awake (even in Hollywood). A procession of white-draped, colorfully masked figures trailed behind a scarlet-robed Moby with a kind of quiet excitement. En route…
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…