Tag: art
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Immersive art…?
Why or why not? I know I sound like a broken record on immersive art sometimes, questioning what the term means when it’s been stretched so thin as to become meaningless. So imagine my surprise when I came across the above. What started as a Mission Street ad has succumbed to a type of (accidental?)…
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The Nest by Hatch Escapes
Josie has died. Nobody has come to claim the contents of her storage locker, and it’s up to you to go through it all. That’s the premise of The Nest by Hatch Escapes. Don’t let the company name misguide you, The Nest itself is more of an immersive story experience. No spoilers will be posted…
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Hospital of Emotions
The Hospital of Emotions is a series of site-specific art installations inside a decommissioned hospital in LA’s Westlake neighborhood. Each section focuses on an emotion you might feel in a hospital environment like sadness, hope, or fear, with a team of artists turning those feelings into their own unique installations. Their website sums it all…
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Castro Trinket Trade
On a quiet residential street not far from the center of the historic Castro District is a decorated box attached to a post. At first glance it appears to be one of those familiar Little Free Library boxes or the similar Little Free Pantry boxes — but this is something different. This is a trinket…
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Rhythm AI
One of the key ideas to emerge from conceptual performance art is tearing down the proscenium. To define the term, the proscenium is the “window” of the stage that the audience is expected to sit behind and passively observe. An infamous example of this in action is the performance piece Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramović.…
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Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries at the Asian Art Museum
My most recent museum visit was to see “Two Home Countries” from Japanese/German artist Chiharu Shiota at the Asian Art Museum. This large scale multimedia installation takes up the back half of the museum’s lower floor. The first piece in her exhibit, Diary, is a passageway through a hall of an intricate mesh of red…
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The mermaid sculpture on the Embarcadero
The giant statue of a woman outside the Ferry Building, R-Evolution, is being joined by a whole set of temporary outdoor statues. First up is a mermaid statue named Coralee. This is by the same artist who created Tara Mechani, which was on display at Patricia’s Green about six years ago. There’s something about this…
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Los Angeles 2025 wrap-up and stray observations
After flying into Los Angeles via the Burbank airport, my first two stops didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. First up was the Old Zoo in Griffith Park. It’s kind of depressing to imagine any animal larger than a mouse feeling at home here. The park itself was also partly roped off for construction,…
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Delusion: Harrowing Of Hell
Continuing the Halloween theme in Los Angeles after going on a Chinatown ghost hunt and attending a festive funeral procession, I decided to take the plunge and check out this year’s Delusion haunted house experience. While I’d never visited previous incarnations of Delusion it didn’t really matter — this year it features an all new…
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Watts Towers
I first learned about the Watts Towers as a kid when I randomly came across a TV movie called Daniel and the Towers on PBS. The movie tells a fictional story about a boy who slowly befriends a cantankerous oddball named Simon Rodia as he builds a set of towers and decorates them with colorful…
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