Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-1975
The GRAMMY Museum – LA, CA
2/22 thru 4/3/12

As part of the exciting statewide Pacific Standard Time Initiative, this pictorial exhibition explores the pop music scenes of Los Angeles, and their related culture, politics, and popular art, during the years of 1945-1975.

In addition to a wide-range of iconic images from the period, the exhibit will also feature a cross-section of ephemera (album art, handbills, concert posters, etc.), music, and filmed interviews with key figures of the scene. The exhibition, co-curated by GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli and USC Professor Josh Kun, zeroes in on the tensions between alluring myths of Southern California paradise and the realities of social struggle that characterized the years following WWII. →

Live from TED Global, the artist and 2011 TED Prize winner JR launched a web series as part of his TED Prize “wish to change the world.”

JR’s wish, the Inside Out Project, calls on men and women to stand up for what they care about by contributing to a large-scale participatory art project.  They do this by uploading a personal statement and portrait to a website (www.insideoutproject.net) and pasting them in the streets. →

Christopher Walken Portrait

Julian Schnabel Photography Exhibit
Magda Danysz Galleries – Paris & Shanghai
10/22 thru 12/3/11

Just in time for the FIAC art fair in Paris and as a first time ever in Shanghai, Magda Danysz Gallery is presenting two solo shows of worldwide famous Julian Schnabel in collaboration with Petra Giloy Hirtz, author of the complete ‘Julian Schnabel. Polaroids‘ book. →

Retrospective Work by Eriberto + Estevan Oriol
Carmichael Gallery – Culver City, CA
10/1 thru 10/29/11

Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Like Father, Like Son, a retrospective survey of works by renowned Chicano, Los Angeles-based father and son photographers, Eriberto and Estevan Oriol. The exhibition will comprise twenty-five limited edition prints from each photographer, including black and white, color, silver gelatin and digital c-prints. →

Rob Hornstra’s Photojournalistic Foray into Sochi, Russia
VBS.TV, VICE’s online television network, and Incase are proud to announce the release of the latest episode of Picture Perfect, a photography show dedicated to documenting our favorite photojournalists. In this episode, VBS goes on assignment with Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra to Sochi, Russia as he continues to captures the city as it exists before it is thrust into the international spotlight as host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. This time around, Hornstra is photographing lounge singers in restaurants, cabarets and hotel lobbies. →

David LaChapelle’s Incendiary Solo Exhibitions
PRISM Gallery, LA, CA
9/27 thru 11/5/11

In his first exhibition at PRISM, David LaChapelle will  show two series of work, Negative Currency and Recollections in America. In the series, Negative Currency, LaChapelle revives a developing process with which he had previously experimented in 1990. Using the enlarger in a darkroom, LaChapelle used dollar bills in the place of a negative, resulting in a pink print that simultaneously revealed both sides of the currency. By rendering the image of the actual currency as a virtual negative, LaChapelle makes a direct correlation to the economic collapse based on artificial commodities and false capital.  →

Yasmine Chatilla

The Thrilling Art of Voyeurism
Carmichael Gallery – Culver City, CA
5/21 thru 6/11/11

Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Breach of Privacy, a group exhibition featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos, five New York-based artists whose creative practices span a disparate range of media, yet coalesce to represent compelling explorations of voyeurism in its shifting states of ecstasy, release and isolation. Via exhilarating photorealistic oils, hauntingly subtractive mixed media works and raw black and white photography, each artist fashions his or her own unique voyeuristic allegory →

Sunny Shokrae is a New York based photographer who captures the free-spirited, the quiet charmer, the “untamed  heart,” and the quotidian setting made colorful. While documenting moments of stillness and flux, Sunny’s photos demonstrate an ease and fluidity that is comforting and nostalgic, cherishing affairs, pettled with a vibrancy that is both current and everlasting. Her assemblage of photos speak to the swinging generation of artists, creators, thinkers and visionaries ready to explore, share and treasure life in its raw form.   →