In the mid-1980s, East Coast graffiti got deadly in the movie Beat Street, when a talented graffiti artist, Ramo, chased a shadowy tagger, Spit, down a New York...
On the latest episode of L.A. Weekly’s Riding the Bench Podcast, hosts Evan Lancaster and Isai Rocha welcomed acclaimed Los Angeles-based muralist Jonas Never,...
Painter Amir H. Fallah is the father of a young son, and they love to read stories together. Every culture has its own universe of children’s literature, from m...
I just dragged my tongue across the envelope of my mail-in ballot. Signed and sealed the back, hoping my signature matches whatever my signature looks like in m...
If you attended the 2019 iteration of Desert X, you might remember one especially unusual Palm Desert stop on the tour. The cross-platform collective Postcommod...
With social media photo-sharing of Los Angeles graffiti going mainstream, some veterans in the local graffiti community remain lukewarm to the idea, which has t...
Painter, sculptor, conceptual and multimedia artist Guillermo Bert is widely known for his material and iconographic riffs on motifs related to the migration an...
Christine Yuan’s award-winning work in film and video ranges from the avant-garde to the commercially iconic and insightfully documentarian. A Taiwanese-America...
I visited Sage Willows’ Los Angeles studio on one of those peculiar California days, just as the sun was setting. Before arriving at the studio, I was advised t...
