Intimate interviews with L.A.’s cultural giants — artists, scholars, activists and writers.
Mr. Wash interviews the artist and storyteller Mel Depaz about her Compton murals and open-air practice.
Behind the scenes of Walter Thompson-Hernández’s feature-length Sundance Film Festival debut, “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” which tells the story of an L.A. family through the lens of Greek mythology.
‘I’m more interested in the things that they can’t tap into, the things that they can’t steal.’
Over the course of several years, filmmaker Isabel Castro worked closely with the Quintanillas to reassemble a family history.
Leonard Koren began documenting L.A. bathing culture back in 1976 with Wet magazine, which featured contributions from David Lynch, Debbie Harry and Ed Ruscha.
Jerkin’ was what happened when you used asphalt as your dance floor and your hometown as your playground, proving the city is a place of alchemy.
An oral history of how Gyopo, the arts and culture organization in L.A., came to be.
If you are making art in L.A. or paying attention to who is making art in L.A., these are faces you’ll recognize.
The Korean tailoring company not only represents the enduring legacy of this skilled trade, but also of a network of families who have carried its mission across decades.
A Kwame Adusei piece can be clocked by its presence. It’s born of a place that exists beyond trend or hype, taking cues from Adusei’s heritage and reinterpreting them for our city.
For years, Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho and Xuan Juliana Wang met for regular work sessions at the cozy Italian American restaurant on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz.
Rocotito Archives is a rental fashion archive and open closet for stylists to pick pieces that range from vintage Jean Paul Gaultier to custom corsets, with a vision of inclusivity
The stars of the film, which was made in collaboration with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, celebrate their on-screen debut.
With her work showing at Made in L.A. this year and a play running this month at the New Theater Hollywood called “The Kids,” artist Leilah Weinraub sits down with Fariha Róisín to discuss her vision.
“I like things that are over the top,” says Celeste Perkins. “You can call it camp. You can call it tacky. I just think it’s fun.”
The L.A.-born costume designer of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and owner of Virgil Normal has never stopped venturing around.
“If you don’t fall in love with a place, it doesn’t become real to you, and if it’s not real to you, then you can ignore it.”
At the Chateau Marmont, Oriol reflects on 30-plus years of photographing L.A. and beyond.
Palace covers over 125 years of style and the collection continues to grow. “I’m not stopping anytime soon,” says Barnett.
Storm Pablo and Marvin Douglas Linares have found a formula that works — and it starts by telling Bad Bunny’s story.
A show at Hauser & Wirth, “Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked,” puts Henry Taylor’s work in the same room with the work of his mentor, California Modernist James Jarvaise.
Thomas, a personal stylist to singer Foushée, pulls out her 7 favorite accessories from her closet — each worth its own story.
Basking in a post-breakup glow, Sudan has recorded an album that sounds as carefree and earnest as the new way of life she’s cultivating.
A decade ago, L.A.-based artist Josephine Lee took on the moniker Princess Gollum. The online alias helps the model push her looks to the extreme, while keeping her grounded in her everyday life.
Between picking white lace patterns and digging through scrap bins, Erik Charlotte VonSosen opens up about her designing process, drag culture’s influence on her work and her vendetta against Pinterest — all while shopping for her next creation.
At 72, the artist is having her first institutional show at MOCA, and she’s having the most fun she’s ever had.
The fifth annual Courtside picnic lit up the Eiffel Tower with West Coast energy.
Flipping through “City of Angels” feels like going through the ultimate L.A. yearbook, where everybody wins “best dressed.”
Cardoso worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for 30 years, affording him a special perspective of the city’s architectural fabric.
Leonard Koren began documenting L.A. bathing culture back in 1976 with Wet magazine, which featured contributions from David Lynch, Debbie Harry and Ed Ruscha.
Chew-Bose’s adaptation of the 1954 French novel of the same name is luscious, tangible and hypnotic.
We talked to the people creating the library of movements, gestures and expressions for models, actors and performers.
In L.A., roller skating for Black skaters is more than just rolling in circles around a rink.
Three spellbinding aerial artists in L.A. on the continuously evolving, and still misunderstood, art of pole dancing.
Justin Torres and Rahmani, two L.A. transplants, talk about the quintessential qualities of this city that seep into the witty novel “Liquid.”
Hood Historian’s passion for sharing the history of Southern California through the lens of “a Black dude from the hood” has built a true community.
The Summaeverythang Community Center is the kind of community work that has always been present in Halsey’s art practice.
A Sunday afternoon in L.A. with Na-Kel Smith, Junior Gutierrez, Davonte Jolly, Lee Spielman and Atiba Jefferson.
Narratives around fame are dated. Harmony Holiday and Nicole Miller propose alternatives.
De Oliveira, star of the series “Special Ops: Lioness,” has grown alongside her character this year.
The album released this past summer, “Quantum Baby,” shows an artist most comfortable with the unknown.
From Brynn Jones Saban of Aralda Vintage to Clémence Pariente of Le Boudoir, L.A.’s vintage sellers share their most cherished pieces.
The rapper and artist is redefining the beauty standards that she grew up with.
“When I cut my hair, I feel like that aura has been turned up. Aura points going up. My conversations are sharp.”
“It’s such a human experience, and that’s what I really loved as a very sensitive, emotional person,” Ámez says.
For this artist and DJ, the beauty ritual is best played out in bed.
Founder Guillermo Andrade launches a new collection at Paris Fashion Week.
Natasha Newman-Thomas, who is working with Keanu Reeves on an upcoming feature, is often tapped for her character-driven approach and vintage-inflected eye.
From her circus background to her love for people with “a little devil in them,” the fashion photographer has stories.
The source of what gives the artist “emotional progress, emotional propulsion.”
One of the best rappers around has a love for literature, a story that extends back to her childhood.
Chris Kraus and Catherine Lacey, two writers of two generations, talk mixing genres, daily schedules, and the critics.
With two upcoming shows, one at Gladstone Gallery and another at 52 Walker, Jafa reflects on what it means to get a big break as an artist.
The author has made a career out of navigating unstable ground. His latest book, “I Finally Bought Some Jordans,” is out next week.
Watching your dream play out before your eyes in waking life is like inhabiting an alternate reality: hair-raising, confronting, wrecking.
In her new deeply personal body of work, the artist is planting the seeds of a narrative yet to be imagined.
L.A.’s rich cultural history is alive through the life and work of the city’s unofficial poet laureate. Just ask her brother George Evans.
The founder of Tlaloc Studios sees working alongside others as integral to his process as an artist.
‘At the end of the day, chefs care; they want to feed everyone. But they’re also struggling to figure things out for themselves.’
L.A. artist Maria Maea reaches for a new level of ancestral knowledge through work that functions outside of market calendars.
Even in his final act, the legendary scholar and theorist does not mince words. He sees an L.A. that is decaying from the bottom up.
Artist Matthew Thomas shows how the traditions of Buddhism and Black American abstraction both provide a sense of freedom and agility of faith.
This conversation between activist Theo Henderson and scholar Ananya Roy foregrounds the endeavors and collaborations that seek to challenge such erasure.
An exhibition at REDCAT is built on Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower.’ Its creator, American Artist, talks with Tananarive Due.
Devon Tsuno interviews Alan Nakagawa about forgotten stories of Japanese people in Mid-City.
A weekend of self-care in the desert with Alice Smith gets supercharged thanks to a lunar eclipse and a trip to the sound bath.
‘La pelota se va, se va, se va, y despidala con un beso!’ Los Angeles Dodgers baseball would not be the same without Jaime Jarrín, the team’s beloved Spanish-language broadcaster.
Fulton Leroy ‘Mr. Wash’ Washington is putting his story to the best use for the world.
Sadie Barnette on her father’s activism, Angela Davis and the FBI.
Black Lives Matter L.A. leader Melina Abdullah discusses her parenting approach and efforts to challenge the status quo.
The activists undoing the racist gentrification of East L.A.
Robin D.G. Kelley and Vinson Cunningham on L.A. solidarity and the Black Radical Tradition.
