Southern California art exhibits
There’s a an artistic universe squeezed into a little gallery space tucked between a residential home and a tattoo parlor on the eastern edge of North Park. The space is called Teros Gallery, the same …
I was 11 or 12 when I befriended an older neighborhood boy who was a fanatical bodybuilder. Johnny pumped iron in the basement and would interrupt any conversation to do handstand pushups against a wall. …
San Diego Museum of Art’s Art of Music exhibit welcomes visitors with a giant ceramic auricle and protruding ear trumpet that, upon detecting the voices of passersby, proceeds to emit Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge.” It’s a …
In many of these photos, things have an existential aura of their own and seem to be observing us.
Coney Island: Visions of the American Dreamland, 1861–2008 is a game, splashy exhibition.
The Self-Taught Genius exhibit at the Mingei, artifacts from their conversation with the world
Essaydi’s women don’t “present” to the viewer: each has an inner life made visible but unavailable to us.
An enormous crowd pushes against an advancing tank, as if to deny its force.
“I have always liked hot music. There’s something wrong with an American who doesn’t.”
I’m standing in Terminal 2 at the San Diego International Airport on a Monday morning in early July. My escort, Constance White, the airport art program manager, leads me through the new food-court atrium, past …
Rilke announced in a poem the arrival of the great war god who would renew humanity.
The Scandalous Art of James Ensor explores the art of the Great Distruber.
“The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it.” Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain, on view at the San Diego Museum of Art until September 9.
I haven’t owned a camera for 30 years and don’t yet have a smartphone. I’ve been writing about photography for 30 years, and when I was very young it shaped my sensibility in ways I’m …
One of the great movie gangsters was also a smart, discriminating art collector. As Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (“Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?”), Edward G. Robinson, born Emmanuel Goldenberg in …