WE ALL SCREAM …
2018-08-01
… FOR ICE CREAM! Well, we didn’t want any ice cream before we saw this mural on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. (We think it was Melrose, but our memory is a bit distorted since we’ve been seriously distracted by this terrible L.A.summer heatwave.) Then we saw this beautiful mural Continue Reading
SECRET LIT: THE UNKNOWABLE WRITING OF THE ARTIST KNOWN AS RETNA
2018-08-01
Retna is an artist with an easily recognizable and distinctly esoteric visual grammar that stands out from graffiti-art vernacular. The artist’s murals have appeared on walls and in galleries all over the world. Retna’s aesthetic is unmistakable. The work pictured here was part of the epic “Beyond the Streets” exhibitionContinue Reading
PLAGIARISTIC LIKE A KLIMT?
2018-08-01
This epic mural adjacent to a couple of rental-car parking lots in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles, is impressive and sweeping. But at a glance, if you squint a bit, it looks like the artist has appropriated the style of almost any painting by the late Austrian artist Gustav Klimt? IsContinue Reading