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Rent for permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on ambition, and that tax falls heaviest on those artists and audiences I most want in the room together. So I took my gallery off its foundation. This is what we call the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model.

Before she was an award-winning artist. Before she was a Senior Art Director at The WB/CW and E! Television. Before any of it — Riea Owens was a seven-year-old in Pasadena dragging visitors into the piano room. Forty-plus years later, she is still dragging people in.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Bart Ross:“The Art of Seeing What Others Walk Past”   Written by Omar Holguin · Los Angeles, CaliforniaThere is a particular kind of patience required to do what Bart Ross does — to stand before something ordinary and wait for it to become...

There are places in a city that hold memory in their walls — not as nostalgia, but as living evidence of what a community has survived, built, and refused to let go. The Dunbar Hotel on South Central Avenue is one of those places.