What people will do for money. What people will do for power.   It is the unfortunate inadvertence of the protagonist, Mr. Easy Rawlins, portrayed by Mr. Denzel Washington to find work in a vulnerable position of needing to keep up with the mortgage on his home in a distinctly African-American Los Angeles neighborhood – likely West Adams or South Central Los Angeles. Indeed, the....

What is a society supposed to do with the unruly? Those who, before reaching the age of peak maturity, are already down a dark road of constant rebellion? To the point where the society is healthier if they were quarantined. Indeed, is this not the precept of penitentiary?   And yet, how unfortunate for a soul to be this inconsiderate. Of himself? Of others.   Made in....

Sadie Benning introduces a plasticity to paint with their choice colors and figures in their opening at Vielmetter Los Angeles. The, if I dare say, “taffiness”, of the experience of their art, provides a sumptuous mastication upon the mind’s eye in experiencing a novelty of beauty. And it is here with these abstract movements of paint which give a clarity amidst what would otherwise be....