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HalloWeekly: There’s Still Plenty of Time to Get Wicked in L.A.
HalloWeekly: There’s Still Plenty of Time to Get Wicked in L.A. Here’s our annual guide to attractions, happenings and things to boo . → Read More
Inauguration Day Arts: Performances, Poetry and People on the Lawn
Two choices for more off-beat Inuguration Day programming. → Read More
Video: Patrisse Cullors' Prayer to the Iyami
Activist Patrisse Cullors has developed a video that provides a look into her process in creating the powerful performance Prayer to the Iyami at The Broad. → Read More
Free Online Ways to Engage the Arts at Home
A list of some great free resources available right now online to help infuse some art and beauty into your new homebound routine. → Read More
Meet an Artist Monday: Miles Regis
L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists introduce themselves to you in their own words. This week it’s painter, designer, musician and multiplatform creative Miles Regis, whose socially engaged work blends the vibrant style of his native Trinidad with the edginess of urban Los Angeles. → Read More
Meet an Artist Monday: Mixed Media by Timothy Warren Williams
“Meet an Artist Monday” is an ongoing series of Q&As with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. This week, we meet painter, sculptor and installation artist Timothy Warren Williams, whose particular vision merges elements of beach culture and goth, trauma and triumph in his eloquent elevation of salvaged materials into... → Read More
Viggo Mortensen Helps Celebrate 50 Years of Beyond Baroque, a Tireless Supporter for Multifaceted Artists Like Him
Before there was the current pre-release Oscar buzz for Green Book, before there was that scene in Eastern Promises or that Oscar nomination for Captain Fantastic, before there was the epic cult franchise The Lord of the Rings or his imminent star turn and writer-director debut in Falling, Viggo Mortensen was a passionate young poet, a prolific painter and a naturally gifted photographer. → Read More
Ofrenda Artistry at Grand Park’s Downtown Dia de los Muertos
The current installation of about 50 ofrendas and Día de los Muertos–themed sculptural installations at downtown’s Grand Park is a heartfelt and homegrown public garden of flowers and art, altars and tributes, and monumental cultural stagings with the flair of the season and the relaxed vibe of a block party. In collaboration with Self-Help Graphics & Art and Lore Media... → Read More
At a Pair of Culver City Galleries, Three Artists Flip the Script on Technique
Though Luis de Jesus and Tarrah Von Lintel share an address in the Culver City gallery district, their operations are independent of each other. However, this month neighboring exhibitions from Paul Anthony Smith, Klea McKenna and Michael Waugh are very much in conversation. → Read More
Yayoi Kusama Documentary Portrays the Infinity Rooms of the Mind
With a treasure trove of historical archive materials from as early as the late 1950s, and striking present-day interviews with Kusama herself, the film is truly a picture about the artist’s life, rather than a flash-bang presentation of her work per se. Over the course of the film, a portrait emerges of this incredible talent — the author of some of the most upbeat art in recent memory — as a... → Read More
West Adams Is L.A.'s New Gallery Row
West Adams has caught the eye of a diverse group of gallerists whose backgrounds and programs are as ambitious as they are eclectic. They've moved in slowly over the past three to four years and quickly in the last 12 months. Pro tip: It's called "West Adams" but most of the galleries are actually on West Washington Boulevard, between about La Brea and about Arlington. → Read More
Best of L.A. Arts: A New Lens to View Our City's Vibrant Visual Scene
The opportunity to tell this incredible city's stories through the lens of its art world is one of the most deeply inspirational and rewarding experiences of my career. → Read More
Tulip Times Infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s New Room at the Marciano
“With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever” (2011) is an expansive, walk-in installation piece with full-surround floor-to-ceiling architectural treatments and large-scale sculptural objects — potted tulips, to be precise. → Read More
The Adventures of Photography Across The Third Dimension
No matter how high-concept and allegorical the idea of illusion can get, at heart 3D art is still primarily spectacular wow-inducing fun. As with all the best historical institutional surveys, LACMA’s “3D: Double Vision” is both. → Read More
Palm Tree as Artistic Muse: It’s Not Just an L.A. Thing
“Paradise Is Now: Palm Trees in Art” is a must-have book for any self-respecting coffee table in Los Angeles. It's also pretty solid summer reading. → Read More
Pussy Grabs Back in Karen Finley’s Newest Book
Karen Finley is most famous as a mesmerizingly boundary-smashing performance artist; throughout her written body of work, the purring and percussive performative voice remains very much in evidence even on the page. All the more so in this case, because the contents of Grabbing Pussy are essentially the libretto... → Read More
Art Galleries With Names That Remind Us of Summer
Don’t let the breezy campground- and road trip–inflected names entirely fool you, though, because these galleries are up to some serious business when it comes to contemporary art. Many are artist-run and/or collectives; all offer eclectic, engaging and relevant programming on the edgier end of the new art spectrum. Some even have more new upcoming July and August shows. → Read More
Little Tokyo’s New Arts Residency Culminates in Eclectic Public Projects and Events
On May 1, 2018, a painter, a writer-performer, a calligrapher and a filmmaker checked into a hotel in Little Tokyo. But this is not a joke. Far from it: This has been the inaugural installation of the Little Tokyo Service Center’s new +LAB Artist Residency. → Read More
The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Economic Impact Report Makes a Financial Case for Art
The full report is available online now, but the takeaway is that PST’s second full edition (there was a sort of mezzo initiative focused on midcentury architecture) was a boon to both the region’s cultural IQ and its bottom line, with increases in all the economic segment categories that were examined, compared with the already huge success of the first PST in 2012. → Read More
Melodie McDaniel’s “Compton Jr. Posse: Daring to Claim the Sky,” a MOPLA Joint
Melodie McDaniel's photography exhibition at Space15Twenty depicts two years she spent with the Compton Jr. Posse, an equestrian club for local youth founded in 1988. → Read More