Mark Allen

A freelance programmer using DIY technology as a tool to teach with Machine Project

Sponsored content: Catering to “overambitious amateur enthusiasts,” Machine Project conjures up an idiosyncratic fusion of classes and workshops that masterfully craft pedagogy out of the infinite realm of possibility. Hosting a range of workshops from psychic communion with plants to the typography of ransom notes, Machine Project is a non-profit arts organization that operates as an “informal educational institution” from its unassuming storefront in the …

Sculpture To Wear

Artists' lesser-known accessories showcase brilliance on a smaller scale

Over the past five years, art collectors Didier and Martine Haspeslagh have been steadily building a covetable collection of jewelry created by some of the most renowned artists in the world. Dubbed “wearable sculptures” by the husband-and-wife duo, the accessories span brooches by Salvador Dalí to hair pins by Alexander Calder. According to Didier, the couple initially began purchasing the items as a consolation because …

Beatrice Wood: Career Woman

A retrospective on the life and work of Dada's Mama

Beatrice Wood’s “Career Woman” exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art celebrates more than her prolific ouevre of gorgeous ceramics, whimsical drawings and colorful paintings. As part of Pacific Standard Time, the show tells the story of Wood’s intimate friendships with Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roche, the discovery of her love of clay, her exploration of complicated relationships between men and women and her …