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Jordan Riefe

Jordan Riefe

After studying Mandarin in post-Mao China, Jordan got into the film business as a camera assistant working with directors like Steven Soderbergh and Tom Hanks. He covered the film business since the late 90s for outlets like Reuters, THR.com, and the Wrap, wrote a movie that was produced in China in 2007. Currently serves as West Coast theatre critic for The Hollywood Reporter, while also covering art and culture for The Guardian, Cultured Magazine, Coast Magazine, Truthdig.com and the LA Weekly.

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A wall that says Frieze Los Angeles where people are passing by
While the auction market has thrived under COVID, the past few years have been rough on art fairs and museums. Scrappy practitioners and gallerists, on the other hand, seem to have fared well. We ask a few Los Angeles galleries about the reasons why.
A Black man is hugged by other children in a schoolroom space.
As Parkinson's disease began to attack boxing great Muhammad Ali, he took the fight outside the ring, giving voice to the voiceless, particularly communities of color at home and abroad. Inspired by his work, seven artists create a more complex portrait of the icon.
An aerial view of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is shot at night.
The six-story museum will feature an education studio, a viewing terrace facing the Hollywood Hills and exhibits that address race and cinema, blackface and the marginalization of people of color.
A light shines on blue cloth outlining a shadow puppet and a shining on a leaf-like object. The performance is part of at "Firefly Nights," an in-person COVID-safe experience that falls within the "Rio Reveals" series.
"Sleep No More" theater director Mikhael Tara Garver unearths the L.A. River's 8-mile deep stories and histories in an ongoing work of experimental theater called "Rio Reveals."
Alison Saar’s “Torch Song,” 2020 in wood, copper, ceiling tin, enamel paint, leather belts and vintage piano keys (72 x 22 x 26) next to Heather Gwen Martin’s “Touch” from 2020. Oil on linen, 60 x 56 in.  | Jordan Riefe
For its 45th anniversary, LA Louver is bringing together 45 artists of the past and the present to tell the story of L.A.'s modern art scene.
From Sunset Blvd, 1966, Ed Ruscha. | Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute,2012.M.1. © Ed Ruscha
The Getty’s “12 Sunsets,” project digitizes Ed Ruscha’s many photographs of each building on Sunset Boulevard from 1966 to 2007.
Kenny Scharf bombing a car September 26, 2020 | Jordan Riefe
“I wanted to introduce something that’s art and it's for everyone and it has no money involved, no value,” says Kenny Scharf of his eye candy car artwork.
A performer for "Sweet Land" | Casey Kringlen for The Industry
Five months after the innovative opera closed due to the pandemic, its themes resonate louder than ever.
LA County Department of Arts and Culture Organizational Grant Program grantee CONTRA-TIEMPO. | Courtesy of CONTRA-TIEMPO.
Board of Supervisors adopts a county-wide policy centered on diversity, inclusion and access.
The Wallis Studio Ensemble presents Fairyland Foibles, featuring (top row L-R) Ella M Joseph, Kendell Byrd, Tiana Randall Quant; (middle row L-R) Trecey Dory, Kelvin Morales, Alexander Sheldon; (bottom row L-R) Marlena Becker, Siera Williams | M. Dahm
“Fairyland Foibles” presented by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, lets the audience play a part in shaping the narrative of each 15-20 minute episode.
Paul Davies with Jesse Carmichael | Courtesy of Paul Davies
The band’s keyboard and guitar player’s 2 Minute Movie Collective offers a micro view of turbulent times.
Helder Guimarães in the Geffen Stayhouse production of The Present, directed by Frank Marshall. | Geffen Playhouse
Extended thrice, “The Present” at the Geffen Playhouse could be described as live theater that comes to you, but some might call it enhanced television. 
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