Curator Anna Milone speaks to French artist Etienne de France about his new video artwork, Looking for the perfect landscape (2017). Grounded in Mohave culture and shot in collaboration with the Colorado River Indian Tribe, it was completed as part of a FLAX (French Los Angeles Exchange) Projects residency in 2017.

Artist Billy Al Bengston and architect Frank Gehry have been friends for more than 50 years. In 1968, when Bengston was given a museum survey at LACMA, they collaborated on the installation: Reconfiguring the galleries with plywood walls, borrowed furniture, Black Power posters, they knocked exhibition design out of the white cube.

Magazine of the international boondocks: In 1978, Bordeaux-based artists Michel Aphesboro and Danielle Colomine embarked on their on-going itinerant project 4 Taxis. Establishing temporary studios in different cities— from Berlin to Los Angeles—they’ve produced a nomadic publication that focuses on distinct places and a wide-ranging world of cultural activities.