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March 18, 2008 | Art Features
Rolling blunts with Iranian currency, appropriating coveted Iranian paintings with tattoos and bottles of whiskey, and turning the chador into a sexy, sensuously revealing cloth, San Francisco-based artist Taravat Talepasand loves to play. Read more
February 21, 2008 | Art Features
Hear the word “community” and what comes to mind is a cloying picture of clasped hands or multihued, smiling children. The word smacks of meaningless, feel-good phrases about commitment. This image of “cuddly community,” as its termed by artist, educator, and activist Christian Nold, is impotent and non-threatening; engaging it involves no real concessions or consequences.”Real communities tend to have many issues both externally and internally,” says Nold. “They don’t tend to follow the corporate image of an Asian, a European, a black person, and an American holding hands, smiling.” Read more
February 20, 2008 | Art Features
Though they are often among our most treasured possessions, books usually have all the aesthetic zest of your average match box-and even less of an inventive design. Despite the fact that they provide us great comfort, hope, and inspiration-often forever altering the course of our lives- books are wedged onto shelves and into cardboard boxes like coffins stacked in an LA mortuary. Read more
February 1, 2008 | Art Features
In artist Roz Leibowitz’s estimation, making art is about “being in [correct] alignment to the cosmic show.” However, her intricate pencil drawings and collages are not portrayals of a fantastical realm but rather depict a curious blend of vernacular culture relating to folk art and folk belief. Read more
November 27, 2007 | Art Features
William Fields started having visions of alien spirits when he was seven years old and living in a house with his mother and grandparents in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read more
November 21, 2007 | Art Features
As the exhibitions of this summer’s feast for the senses come to a close, people all over the world are returning to their respective studios, homes, and offices to process the wealth of visual information acquired in 2007. Read more
August 15, 2007 | Art Features
For our summer issue, ALARM Arts Editor Buck Austin examined the role of artistic expression in the rehabilitation of inmates at San Quentin State Prison. His findings, to say the least, were compelling. Read more
July 11, 2007 | Art Features
In a bar on the seedier side of town, a tattooed bartender makes a heavy drink for a couple in their 70s. Indie haircuts dot the club. Kitten on the Keys plays piano, tinkling keys and twinkling eyes. Decked out in a red and black corset, she belts out one of the many songs she’s written, “Grandma Sells My Panties on eBay.” Read more
July 6, 2007 | Art Features
Spectacle — it’s the swagger, it’s the back-up singers in matching costumes, it’s when too much is never enough, it’s Las Vegas and its antithetical twin Burning Man, it’s gold and gold and more gold. It’s the Flaming Lips with their dancing aliens, Santa Clauses, and rock superstars floating through the crowd in big plastic bubbles. It’s what Redmoon Theater does. Read more
July 3, 2007 | Art Features
Adults in silky pink suits, pirate paraphernalia, and fake hair of assorted varieties. Children in striped tights, fairy wings, capes, cowboy boots, and leopard print pants. A rat puppet and a pixie-punk woman with tattooed arms and a short, black and silver dress that shines underneath the TV lights. Indie rock, punk, hip hop, cha-cha - whatever plays, they dance. Read more
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