Art for Masses

LATimes cover story on art for the people in Chinatown, LA, features NZ artists and curators, including an exhibition at the Lord Mori Gallery, curated by Tessa Laird and Joyce Campbell, “featuring work by seven artists from New Zealand, a good number of which would be easy to love, including primitive paintings by Saskia Leek in which birds have musical notes coming out of their mouths and skinny Santas fly over picket fences”. City of dreams? Also amongst the NZ art crew that has gone west to another periphery is Giovanni Intra’s influential China Art Objects gallery. Above: Ronnie van Hout, Self Portrait, 21, at the Lord Mori.