California dreaming in a group show featuring Los Angeles photographers…

The American Dream is familiar enough territory, but what of the allure of the West? The group show “A Place in the Sun: Picturing California” highlights Los Angeles photographers, some

Street artists reinterpret photographs that captured their own history…

A major part of the early graffiti scene, photojournalist Martha Cooper is now on the other end of lens as the focus of a new exhibition at L.A.’s Carmichael Gallery. “Martha

A massive new book on the world’s most notoriously underground artform…

Not all graffiti books are created equally, but a behemoth like the forthcoming “History of American Graffiti” shows how meaningful collections of photos and information on the subject can

Brothers, artists and Colorado natives Andrew and Peter Sutherland are having their first ever show together, called “Amateur Hour” and opening tonight at NYC’s ATM gallery. The title of the show celebrates the time we live in now and the…

LA-based, Philadelphia-born filmmaker and photographer Larry Yust combines 10 to 100 digital images to create giant “Photographic Elevations” up to eight feet long (pictured below, detail above).

Opening 24 September 2009 at the Lumas gallery, this will be Yust’s first…

Of the coverage about Os Gemeos’ new mural on Houston in NYC, the indefatigable Martha Cooper’s series of images wins for the most elegant telling of the recent history of the street corner. Contrasting images shot over the last several…

No Longer Empty, a new non-profit group of artists and curators, finds unused (or should we say un-leased) storefronts in Manhattan and fills them with temporary art shows. The project revitalizes empty spaces by filling them with art, situates art…

In early 2003, photographer and writer Tom Schutyser traveled in a West-East direction along the Silk Road documenting the sights he saw along the way. The resulting show, “Caravanserais a Metaphor,” is a photographic glimpse of his journey from Iran…

Following the wild success of his first NYC solo show earlier this year, photographer Peter Sutherland is doing what he does best and hitting the road for an encore solo show opening at the Hope Gallery in L.A. this weekend.…

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over 200 pieces of work from the 1930s-70s, “Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda” at UCLA’s Fowler Museum is a stunning retrospective and the first for the famed silversmith. It’s also first time Pineda, who is…

Bill McMullen is so — I hate to use the word — creative. Widely known as one of the Beastie Boys’ graphic designers (we’re talking “Hello Nasty” and beyond here), he is also well known for his limited edition “action”…

“All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies or, Frankly, Anybody Else” is the title of illustrator and author Laurie Rosenwald’s latest book and perhaps one of the best titles ever. (We wonder, has it been…