Pretty in Pink

Saturday’s Miracle Mile Art Walk offered fair weather and a plethora of surprises. The Craft & Folk Art Museum features paper dolls, including the Dennis Rodman Paper Doll Book. Melanie Pullen’s large-format images of stylized soldiers are on view at Ace Gallery. (If you don’t already have her 2002 book, High Fashion Crime Scenes, order it with Amazon's 1-Click, clear your calendar, and get ready for a sick, Hitchcockian-death-in-a-barrel-with-spike-heels kind of treat.) The Korean Cultural Center features a juried show, Women Artists on Immigration, which includes Gila Davidian’s Me and Dad, a photo that may or may not intentionally illustrate the continuous power of the garden hose to serve as an unsettling metaphor. The Holly Trolley was everything we expected; the elevator operator in the Desmond’s Building was the tour’s highlight. I’m in love.

Paper Cuts: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls, Craft & Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. * Melanie Pullen: Violent Times, 
Ace Gallery, 5514 Wilshire Blvd. * Women Artists on Immigration, Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd.