By conventional standards, LACHSA Alum Kamal Sinclair has had upwards of a dozen different careers. She’s been a dancer, a producer, a choreographer, a director, a creative advisor and an executive director, among other sundry positions. Today, she is a member of the executive leadership team at the Guild of Future Architects, which is designed
Mixed media artist LACHSA Alum Erin Trefry creates paintings and sculptural assemblage using found objects and materials that evoke the body in their substance (like clay) and in their history of usage (garments, textiles, and remnants and tools of the clothing trade). Her patient deconstruction and reconfiguration of these materials reinvents them away from their
Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. When Paul Thomas Anderson asked her to star in “Licorice Pizza,” the musician had zero acting experience. Now she’s winning rave reviews. By Lindsay Zoladz, Originally Published in the New York Times, Dec. 6, 2021 One summer night in 2019, Alana Haim was jet-lagged, tossing and
There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading
The artist invites viewers into her uncanny universe with a dual show in Los Angeles. Katie White, October 19, 2021 Originally published at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ariana-papademetropoulos-interview-2022483 Los Angeles artist Ariana Papademetropoulos will lure you into a painted fairy tale—one that hovers winkingly between the romantic and the foreboding. Papademetropoulos, who is 30 and was born and raised in
Installation view in the Thornton Portrait Gallery at The Huntington. Left to right: Joshua Reynolds, Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie, 1777; Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, 2021; Thomas Gainsborough, Elizabeth (Jenks) Beaufoy, later Elizabeth Pycroft, ca. 1780. Photo: Joshua White. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. SAN MARINO, CA.- Visitors got a
Written By Caroline Framke One of the best surprises about this year’s Emmy nominations was “Pen15” landing a nomination for outstanding comedy series. More than any other TV show about teenagers, the Hulu show — co-created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman — feels like an open window into my own past as a gawky teen with
Originally published at the Los Angeles Sentinel By Amanda Scurlock sports writer, published July 1, 2021 Assata Gaines, a graduating senior from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), earned a full scholarship to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Gaines not only looks forward to studying dance at the university
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On Tuesday, which would have been Eddie Van Halen’s 66th birthday, a giant mural of the guitar hero titled “Long Live the King” was unveiled outside the Guitar Center’s flagship store on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Rendered by Los Angeles artist and graduate of the LA County High School for the Arts Robert Vargas, the mural
