La Luz De Jesus: Sex, Death, Skeletons and Pussy–Paul K and Scott Hove
It’s a damned good friday with show you shouldn’t passover tonight at La Luz de Jesus: Paul Koudounaris “Memento Mori” and Scott Hove “Pussy Jihad” bring together sex, death, religion, nihilism and resurrection, a show that eclipses all others just in time for the Easter bunny to roll away the stone–and if he sees his…
TOMORROW! One Night Only Boxes of Death, October 11
Dig it! Boxes of Death returns to Southern California, now for the second time in Los Angeles. The show will open for one-night on Saturday October 11th from 6-10pm at The Chun, 1258 w. 2nd St in DTLA. Now in its fifth year, the traveling coffin show–yes, “boxes of death” are coffins, tabletop sized for your collecting…
Laurie Lipton Book Signing at La Luz de Jesus
Laurie Lipton’s drawings are clever and irreverent while dwelling on themes of extinction and death. Her influences–including the Flemish and Dutch Masters, Durer, and Dian Arbus–come through loud and clear. Lipton will be signing her book this Saturday, November 23, 2013 from 7pm to 10pm.
“Beyond the Dark Veil” Ushers in the Beautiful Death at CSU Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery
Step beyond the veil into the haunting and beautiful world of the dead as the California State University Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery presents “Beyond the Dark Veil: PostMortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive,” curated by Jacqueline Ann Bunge Barger, running November 2 though December 12, 2013. The Thanatos Archive houses an extensive collection of…
Exclusive Preview, Photos: “Beyond the Dark Veil: PostMortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive”
November 2nd, on the heels of Halloween, on the Day of the Dead and All Souls Day, November 2, Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery opens “Beyond the Dark Veil: PostMortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive,” a haunting and sublime exploration of love and loss featuring Victorian post-mortem and mourning photography from the Thantos Archive.…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…