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08/07/2024

Magical and modern - Back to Basics at CA State LA

Color, color, color. Shape, shape, shape – the glorious combination of vivid palette and extraordinary geometric precision makes Back to Basics: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman…

05/07/2024

Explosively good art for fireworks weekend - at the Bendix

If you’d like to experience some explosively beautiful art this weekend along with your fireworks and BBQ, there’s six stellar exhibitions all in one stop at the Bendix Building in DTL…

21/06/2024

https://www.diversionsla.com/when-art-is-magic-the-arcade-of-hypermodernity/ amazing show — gooooooooo!

“Oh Sandy, the aurora is risin’ behind us/ This pier lights our carnival life on the water…” – Bruce Springsteen Now at Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo …

19/06/2024

Mix it ! Aimee Mandala

Buzzing with lively energy, the group exhibition Mixtape, now at ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach brings the invigorating result of an international open art call to life while stirring up some …

28/05/2024

This festival is a real prize!

The awards ceremony and final party for the Mammoth Lakes Film Fest 2024 brought the festival’s 10th year to a delightful close. Joy alert – joy was a big part of this film-lovers paradise as…

28/05/2024

Such a great time! Awards coverage coming up

As we conclude our 10th annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, we would like to take a moment to recognize our amazing Sponsors, Filmmakers, Attendees and all who made the festival a stellar experience.

Hope to see you next year!

  

27/05/2024

Final day of film fun - award winners round up tomorrow! Read about today’s cinematic delights here

Solid gems in Narrative Shorts Block 5 began our day of filmgoing for the fifth and final day of the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2024 in beautiful Mammoth Lakes. Tiger Hornsby directed Night Milk, …

26/05/2024

Can you say wow? Fabulous filmmaking

It would be incredibly hard to top the powerhouse slate of films that Mammoth Lakes Film Festival served up in their 10th year this Saturday. Both hilarious, inspirational, and moving, All I’…

25/05/2024

Fun film Friday at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

A fine Friday unfolded at today’s Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, the third day of this stellar fest in the scenic Sierras. First though, a quick take on a film left out of yesterday’s re…

24/05/2024

Full review of today’s long and lovely day Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

Our first full day at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival offered an eclectic and exciting mix of films. We started our morning with Narrative Shorts Block 1. Among my favorites was Messy Legend, an hi…

23/05/2024

Movie magic in the pines - opening night

Celebrating its 10th year of stellar cinema, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival opened tonight with a visceral, important film. Lucy Lawless of Xena:Warrior Princess fame directs a compelling documentary …

06/05/2024

Day two of great fun BeachLife Festival

The second day of the 2024 Beach Life Festival in Redondo Beach was just as exciting as the the first, with a fresh lineup of stellar musicians and great performances. If you missed our coverage of…

05/05/2024

Music and more! BeachLife Festival

Maybe you grew up, as I did, going to the beach and bringing your favorite music along for under-the-umbrella tunes. Whether it was on your Walkman, Boombox, Ipod, or through speakers linked…

02/05/2024

https://www.diversionsla.com/earth-day-always-for-artist-snezana-saraswati-petrovic/ let’s love earth and art

In Snezana Saraswati Petrovic’s exhibition Bionic Garden – The Fossils of the Future, environmental activism meets profoundly beautiful visual art. The inclusive, immersive exhibition blossoms with…

26/04/2024

Catch some fire

At Wonzimer through May 3rd, artist Gary Brewer has curated an entirely unique group exhibition Vibrant Matter – Brilliant Fire. Featuring the lustrous, alien and exciting ceramic work of Bre…

24/04/2024

Risk free - great art

Artist Fatemeh Burnes, above Through May 4th, the Torrance Art Museum is vibrating with a rainbow palette and exceptional non-figurative paintings. This is a don’t-miss show, alive with brush…

20/04/2024

Be enchanted

Above, curator Dale Youngman, right What better way to celebrate Earth Month than by visiting the beautiful exhibition currently at Loft at Liz’s in mid-city , Enchanted Earth: Capturing Natu…

03/04/2024

Beautiful show

Nancy Kay Turner and Michael Falzone are expertly paired in two solo shows now at Roswell Space through April 14th. Sigma features work that touches on memory and the mysterious in an exhibit that…

29/03/2024

Dreamy exhibition

Green and lush, fecund and fabulous, artist Charles Derenne claims territory that is dream-like and wistful in a magical space. Using landscape paintings and photographic collage, as well as a bril…

23/03/2024

Make an expression, urban style

URBAN EXPRESSION is a vibrant, exciting mix of photography, installation, video, painted, and collage works. As such it successfully explores a wide range of themes from urban spaces to culture and…

17/03/2024

Delight in these excellent exhibitions The Makery

https://www.diversionsla.com/play-and-perfection-at-the-makery/

02/03/2024

https://www.diversionsla.com/hardly-a-bit-of-blah-in-blah-blah-blah-at-launch-gallery/ closing tmrw don’t miss

Snezana Saraswati Petrovic and Chenhung Chen both weave. They weave artistic magic. They weave respectively using recyclable plastics and recycled metals and wire. The result is something fascinati…

02/03/2024

Closing tmrw! Don’t miss

Snezana Saraswati Petrovic and Chenhung Chen both weave. They weave artistic magic. They weave respectively using recyclable plastics and recycled metals and wire. The result is something fascinati…

01/03/2024

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01/03/2024

The South Bay is alive with art TAM Torrance Art Museum Angels Gate Cultural Center Palos Verdes Art Center

A collection of fine exhibitions makes the South Bay dazzle with their first 2024 exhibitions. So swing on down just below LAX and take in 6 terrific art events in three different spaces. At the To…

24/02/2024

https://www.diversionsla.com/whats-in-bloom-this-spring-at-shoebox-projects/ Blossom one more time - tomorrow is the closing!

As Gertrude Stein once said, a rose is a rose…but the flowers in Bloom are far more than that. They are created of oil and watercolor, fabric and photograph, sculptural and quilt, mixed medi…

22/02/2024

https://www.diversionsla.com/la-art-fair-sparkles-and-shines/ fair-thee-well til next year

As always, the LA Art Show served up a tasty treat of art in a wide variety of mediums. There were informative talks, passionate performance, themes of climate change, a heady dose of trippy AI, sp…

20/02/2024

This is cool

Enjoy the wonders of our human powered, Venice themed, hand carved, ingenious, interactive kinetic sculpture, aka a carousel

20/02/2024

Earth and Ember Burns Bright

Southern California in the 1950s- 1960s was ground zero for what became a revolution in ceramics, moving clay away from a strictly functional or decorative medium towards experimental, abstracted s…

17/02/2024

Art is Ridin’ in!

Packing a one-two punch of vibrant art, Anna Stump and Ted Meyer convey their own individual and unique visions of the American West in the terrific 118 Degrees, Tales from the Desert now at Roswel…