THE SMILE FACE MUSEUM :)
The Smile Face Museum was originally housed in the basement of curator and collector Mark Sachs’ Silver Springs, Maryland home from 1992-1994. You can take a tour of the original museum in this amazing video he made in ’90s. It was recently revived, and this weekend marks the final installment in a month long series […]
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DOROTHY IANNONE
Dorothy Iannone, who was featured in conversation with Trinie Dalton in PARIS, LA #4, recently had a retrospective exhibition at Berlinische Galerie: Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition, Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside of Time, featured paintings, objects, and books by Iannone from 1959-2014. A catalogue of her retrospective was also published in conjunction with the exhibition! […]
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K8 HARDY – BARGAIN AT KARMA INTERNATIONAL, ZURICH
Bargain, an exhibition of new work by New York based artist K8 Hardy is currently on view at KARMA International in Zurich until March 29th. K8′s fashion story ‘MPA’ was featured in issue #7 of PARIS, LA and her artists’ book How To: Untitled Runway Show was published by DoPe Press in the fall of 2013. Bargain […]
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PARIS, LA #11
PARIS, LA ISSUE #10 / SPRING 2014 PHOTOGRAPHY HERE AND NOW CONTENTS Optic Nerve | Catherine Opie in conversation with Dorothée Perret Collisions Ahead | By Brendan Fowler and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer Perversion is Bliss | By Andrew Berardini and Torbjørn Rødland Anarchy in the Belle Epoque | By Aaron Sandnes and Barlo Perry Through a Glass, Darkly: a […]
Read More![Nirvana Alchemy Film (16mm black & white film soaked in lithium mineral hot springs, pennyroyal tea, doused in mud, sopped in bleach, cherry antacid and laxatives – jumping by Finn West & Jwest), 2007, 2 minutes, 51 seconds, 16mm film negative transferred to digital video. [Courtesy of the artist and MARC FOXX, Los Angeles]](http://www.paris-la.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/03/WEST_03-1-180x180.jpeg)
JENNIFER WEST: MIND AND MATTER
Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West grew up in Topanga Canyon in the 1970s before spending her college years in Seattle and Olympia during the early years of the Riot Grrrl and grunge movements. Inspired by West Coast subcultures, her organic films and printouts depict surfers, beach parties or natural phenomena that she captures on 16, […]
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PARIS, LA #10
PARIS, LA | ISSUE #10 / FALL 2013 SPECIAL ART ISSUE | FRANCE X LOS ANGELES CONTENTS Jennifer West: Mind and Matter | By Martha Kirszenbaum Portfolio Ceci n’est pas… | By Sébastien Paquet Celui qu’elle espérait | By Neil Beloufa How to Build a House | Jorge Pardo in conversation with Oscar Tuazon Lost in […]
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PARIS, LA #10
PARIS, LA | ISSUE #10 / FALL 2013 SPECIAL ART ISSUE | FRANCE X LOS ANGELES CONTENTS Jennifer West: Mind and Matter | By Martha Kirszenbaum Portfolio Ceci n’est pas… | By Sébastien Paquet Celui qu’elle espérait | By Neil Beloufa How to Build a House | Jorge Pardo in conversation with Oscar Tuazon Lost in […]
THE UNFINISHED: A TEMPORARY PUBLIC SCULPTURE BY MICHAEL PARKER
The Unfinished is a temporary public sculpture by artist Michael Parker, produced by Los Angeles arts and culture non-profit the Clockshop. According to the press release, The Unfinished is an obelisk-shaped excavation located along the banks of the channelized LA River. The horizontal excavation, dug into and through the asphalt of an empty industrial lot, […]
RAF SIMONS SPRING 2014 SHOW AT GAGOSIAN, PARIS
Photos by Giulia Ruberti for PARIS, LA
JULIE VERHOEVEN – YOUR FLY IS OPEN
Julie Verhoeven – Your Fly Is Open At Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch Opening on May, 25 Under the title Your Fly is Open, Julie Verhoeven presents an installation consisting of three videos, in which she refers to jewellery and ceramics from the museum’s collection. Verhoeven herself describes the piece, with its extravagant and disturbing sensuality, […]
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