Do you know what your wish is? A man, sharply dressed in a grey plaid suit and black glasses, asks hastily. With a corded phone glued to his shoulder, he juggles between my in-person request, and that of a second man put on hold. Category: personal, professional, global, altruistic…? He continues to rattle off categories, […]
Escapism has been the hallmark of cinema for years; taking us on journeys beyond our imagination from a safe distance and returning us delicately back to our lives. Some of us, choosing more unsettling tales, escape into worlds of gore and ghouls by re-watching a young Georgie’s last moments before floating away, or binging through […]
Imagine walking inside a Tool album cover like the ones designed by Alex Grey: all hypercolor and shamanism and replications of replications of replications of images stretching infinitely into a distant horizon. This is how it feels to step into Wisdome Los Angeles, a “fully immersive entertainment art park” that has recently set up shop in […]
The following is a review of Anthony Roth Costanzo’s Glass Handel, which debuted at the Philadelphia Barnes Foundation from September 22nd – 30th. It will soon make its way to New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine from November 26th -27th. In the grand halls of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, […]
How do we interpret the truth? Is it a collection of assumptions, known facts, and lies agreed upon? Would we know a lie if we saw it, or would our minds interpret it as truth in the context of our moral obligation to believe it? Does wanting to believe something make a lie more […]
This April, we will all be screaming for ice cream as the Museum of Ice Cream opens its doors in downtown Los Angeles. This immersive ice cream attraction offers participants the opportunity to dive into a pool of one hundred million sprinkles, explore a forest of melted popsicles, experience a mint “grow house” and revel […]
