Los Angeles Nomadic Division is celebrating 15 years of championing the city’s artists, and cultural curator Anita Herrera is throwing a true Y2K L.A. quinceañera in its honor.
It would be too easy and too inaccurate to write these places off as strange anomalies — one-off quirks in a city filled with so many quirks. They are part of L.A.’s history.
On the runway and off, we saw accessories first and everything else second: the practical, the purely aesthetic, the absurdist combination of them all.
A show at Hauser & Wirth, “Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked,” puts Henry Taylor's work in the same room with the work of his mentor, California Modernist James Jarvaise.
A Kwame Adusei piece can be clocked by its presence. It’s born of a place that exists beyond trend or hype, taking cues from Adusei’s heritage and reinterpreting them for our city.
At NYFW this year, the music was the journey, becoming a repeating prayer, tapping into the self that’s both esoteric and animalistic, reminding us of what once was.