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It's been many years since Geoff McFetridge has showcased a solo show in Los Angeles, where he's lived since moving from his hometown of Calgary, Canada. His latest solo exhibition, Return to Stoner Forest, is a way in which the artist looks to reconnect to the early stages of his career, where he remembers making work to mainly share with friends. He's gone on to showcase around the world since that time, always paving his own artistic lane of distilling complex emotions into recognizable motifs, while collaborating with world-renowned brands, such as Nike and Stüssy, along the way. Housed at One Trick Pony, just a stones throw from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the exhibition presents a row of totemic figures alongside his signature paper-based illustrations. Emblematic o...

Esperanza Rosas, also known by her artist alias, Runsy, is a Chicago-based multimedia artist best known for creating detailed illustrations that recontexualizes pop cultural motifs with her Mexican heritage. Opening today at FRANCHISE gallery in Los Angeles is a new solo exhibition entitled Plata o Plomo.Named after the popular phrase used in the hit Netflix series, Narcos, the show is a form of self-exploration, where the artist is reverting back to introducing herself by her first name. "Runsy is Esperanza, in a dualistic existence, arriving at what it means to be a Mexican artist from South Side Chicago with a propensity for self exploration," wrote a release by the gallery. "This presentation of, 'all things that make up who I am,' is equally meditative and robust. Each intricate lead ...

It's been nearly 111 years since the RMS Titanic sank on that fateful night in the North Atlantic Ocean. Caught between horror and intrigue, opulence and anguish, the story of the ship has fascinated scholars, moviegoers and history buffs since. To coincide with the 25th Anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film Titanic in 1997, never-before-seen footage has been released documenting one of the first dives to the ship wreckage in 1986.Conducted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in partnership with France’s Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, the grainy 81-minute video peruses two miles below sea level documenting where the ruins of the Titanic will hauntingly rest until it slowly deteriorates with time.The video was shot just nine months after the ocean liner's...