Read About Our Adventure With Legendary Filmmaker and Spiritual Mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky at His Apartment in Paris →

"I donยดt think with ideas, but with my testicles. I donยดt search, I ejaculate." This is just one of the many gems offered by legendary filmmaker and spiritual mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky in Adarsha Benjamin's interview with the famous auteur. On the occasion of the release of his new epic book, entitled Where The Bird Sings Best, we have dug this story and interview out of the archives. Originally published in Autre Issue 2, Adarsha Benjamin tells her story of running, jet lagged through the rainy streets of Paris to find Jodorowsky's apartment. Click here to read the full story and interview. 

A Group Show Entitled "To Hide To Show" Opens Tomorrow At MAMA Gallery In Los Angeles, Read Our Exclusive Interviews with the Artists →

Opening tomorrow night in Los Angeles, MAMA gallery will present To Hide To Show, a group exhibition derived from a contemporary French social anthropological study entitled Montrer / Occulter, which loosely translates to the exhibitionโ€™s title. The artists chosen to represent the ideas and concepts behind this study, and its conclusions, experiment with the notion of concealing and revealing on a societal, intellectual and creative basis. These artists include Clara Balzary, Zoe Crosher, Nana Ghana, Ariana Papademetropolous, Mattea Perrotta, Fay Ray, Lisa Solberg, and Johanna Tagada. Click here to read our interviews with all the artists. 

After & Again with Betsabee Romero: Public Art Installation Launch @ The Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge

After & Again, a new contemporary art platform celebrating the craftsmanship of textiles, presented their inaugural artist collaboration with Betsabeรฉ Romero, one of Mexicoโ€™s leading contemporary artists for three days only at the Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge. Known around the world for creating inventive installations influenced by literature and diverse cultures, Romeroโ€™s "Skull of a Thousand Faces" edition and installation - curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond (read our interview here) โ€“for After & Again is inspired by pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

James Georgopoulos 'There Is No End' @ MAMA in Los Angeles

MAMA Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by American artist James Georgopoulos. The exhibition explores familiar themes and tropes of sexuality, consumerism, and money worship โ€“ thoughtfully disguised in popular culture as the American dream. Following in the same lineage of artists such as John Chamberlain or even Marcel Duchamp, by using objects โ€“ old car parts, disused slot machines and other jettisoned materials โ€“ Georgopoulos investigates the self-cannibalizing culture of consumerism. There Is No End will be on view February 28 through April 4, 2015. The opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, February 28, 2015 from 6:00PM - 9:00PM

Opening of LOVE/WAR Group Show @ MAMA Gallery

NYC artists MINT&SERF and PaperWorkNYC have come to Los Angelesโ€™ MAMA Gallery to present LOVE/WAR, a week-long group show examining the inevitability of uncertainty and conflict. LOVE/WAR is a multimedia exhibition comprised of photographs, paintings, installation and video, curated by Mint&Serf and PaperWorkNYC, a synergy that revels in the spirit of artistic collaboration. LOVE/WAR will be on view until February 7th, 2015 at MAMA Gallery, 1242 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles, CA.