In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to Hyper-Real

The city’s towering challenges include an abandoned skyscraper covered in graffiti. At David Kordansky Gallery, it inspires a ...
Los Angeles Times

Isaac Psalm Escoto finds the intersection between L.A.’s art galleries and graffiti

“My car got impounded again. I am so sorry I’m late,” said Isaac Psalm Escoto, practically running into Jeffrey Deitch, a contemporary art gallery on Santa Monica Boulevard, energy drink in hand. It ...
CBS News

How a shop in Boyle Heights embraced graffiti and created a haven for street artists

Before Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring's artwork sold for millions, it was illegally spray-painted on city surfaces. The transition from graffiti to gallery is a controversial one but ...
Hyperallergic

Graffiti's US History & Art in the Streets: Interview with Roger Gastman

Eric Kroll, "Patti Astor at Keith Haring's FUN Gallery Show" (1983) (image courtesy MOCA LA) On April 17, MOCA LA’s Art in the Streets exhibition opens. The show, which was organized in roughly a year ...