RETNA alleges that his landlord improperly seized works by him as well as artists from Robert Mapplethorpe to Naudline Pierre. RETNA attends the MOCA Gala at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los ...

Heritage Auctions is staging a sale of the contents of the downtown Los Angeles street artist RETNA. The artist, already known for a troubled history, fell behind on the rent and the landlord, Victor ...

SOLANA BEACH, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Madison Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in Southern California, is honored to present LOVE LETTER | CARTA DE AMOR, a powerful new solo ...

In "Future In Her Eyes," Retna’s signature script-like symbols overlay an image of a young girl looking deeply into the camera. The image adds a rare representational element to Retna’s indecipherable ...

Last night’s opening of art by the LA graffiti artist Retna was more of a fashion event than an art show. Bizarrely titled The Hallelujah World Tour, the artist’s all-over calligraphic style was ill ...

What you see, on the white wall, are elegant sweeping marks, a script you can’t quite make out or have forgotten to learn. What the artist hears is music. His name is Marquis Lewis, better known as ...

This 2016 work by Retna features black script against a white canvas. In his signature style, he creates a written language of text and symbols derived from Arabic calligraphy, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, ...

The mural Wingspan created by the artists Marquis Lewis, aka Retna, El Mac and Reyes on the corner of 37th Street and North Miami Avenue. The mural featured in our header this month is Wingspan, which ...