Beacon Arts Building

A massive art compound opens its doors in Los Angeles

At over 32,000 square feet, the renovated former storage warehouse located in the middle of the downtrodden city of Inglewood, CA, doesn’t exactly have the pomp and circumstance that you’d expect Los Angeles’ newest art studio complex to have. But that’s the point. The new Beacon Arts Building is a low-key space designed to serve as a refuge for artists looking to focus on producing …

With The Void, Full Power

Mysticism and blue in a sweeping Yves Klein retrospective

At age 19 Yves Klein stood in the backyard of his parents’ home in Nice and pointed a camera up at the open sky. This photograph of endless blue was his first monochrome work, setting the stage for hundreds more created during the artist’s short yet profound career. Exploring this approach in both his groundless, brilliant blue canvases, along with films, sculptures, and architecture, I …

Hell’s Half Acre

Frieze meets hell in a theatrically re-imagined Dante's Inferno

There was a lot of competition for the artistic limelight during London’s recent Frieze Art Fair 2010. Each year the art festival throws up more and more peripheral shows that vie for attention with the great art behemoth, but this year the greatest creative noise was generated by the outsiders who went underground. An impromptu reconstruction of Dante’s Inferno, “Hell’s Half Acre” took place deep …