A New Yorker to the core, LaForge makes works that are brash and whimsical, tough and sweet, and infused with a humor that’s both dark and lighthearted. In 2012, it’s hard to find a painting ...

But at first glance, PEM's curator of maritime history and art Dan Finamore said the contemporary artist's trippy works can seem like magical spectacles. “Each of these paintings, I think it's ...

After hours it turns into an event venue, hosting everything from trippy art openings and drug-themed comedy shows to a “spookadelic” haunted house for Halloween. Talks are held on subjects as ...

One is a dark, half-abstract Byzantine icon; the second a dainty 14th-century French ivory carving. Between them is a painting ... each as spatially trippy as an Escher print and as packed ...