Eric Nakamura is one of those people who will talk to anyone. He’s extremely approachable, extremely nice, and extremely talented. He can do just about anything too, from running a successful store to a popular magazine to an art gallery–all while handling every tiny detail in between from taxes to maintenance. He is the man behind Giant Robot, the Little Osaka based store, magazine, art gallery, and destination for Asian and Asian American popular culture and art, a Los Angeles institution that he has started nearly twenty years ago.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Sarah Conaway is a photographer getting at much more than subjectivity. She is less about the subject being portrayed as a “subject” and is more about “a sense of objectness,” the object in the photo being much more than it actually is.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Sarah Cain is a space artist. Her work bends how art on the wall and art in a room become a part of the room, transcending dimensions, becoming something more.
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We’ve got art this weekend. We have food this weekend. We have shopping this weekend. We have Easter this weekend. We have an art show about Kristen Stewart this weekend. We even have a one woman show based off of Madonna this weekend. There is a lot to do so, like you do every week, check The Recap!!
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The MOCA Grand was standing room only last night. Not with the usual art seekers, but with book lovers, aspiring writers and advice column junkies like myself. We were there to see author Cheryl Strayed read from her new book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. The memoir recounts Strayed’s journey hiking eleven hundred miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone and ill-prepared. The book has received glowing reviews and the film rights have been optioned by Reese Witherspoon.
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