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A Meeting of Strange Minds: Peter Ivers, David Lynch and Devo
History is made at midnight: Excerpt from Josh Frank's In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theater
By JOSH FRANK
On Tuesday, the American Cinematheque presents a memorial tribute to the Los Angeles poet, performance artist and musician Peter Ivers, featuring a newly restored 35mm print of David Lynch’s 1977 film Eraserhead. In the new book In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the… Keep Reading »
A Meeting of Strange Minds: Peter Ivers, David Lynch and Devo
History is made at midnight: Excerpt from Josh Frank's In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theater
By JOSH FRANK
On Tuesday, the American Cinematheque presents a memorial tribute to the Los Angeles poet, performance artist and musician Peter Ivers, featuring a newly restored 35mm print of David Lynch’s 1977 film Eraserhead. In the new book In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the… Keep Reading »
John Lurie Never Left
Still strange, still beautiful
By CHRIS MARTINS
John Lurie is a steam engine with a nuclear reactor in his firebox — always has been. The downtown icon filled our ears with “fake jazz” that was better than the real thing; he didn’t care much about acting and it showed, in the best way; and he taught… Keep Reading »
Peter Saul's Painterly Cartoon Armageddon
Th-th-that's Saul, Folks!
By DOUG HARVEY
In spite of the fact that painter Peter Saul has spent the bulk of his 50-year career pissing off (and on) the art world — along with pretty much every other enclave of pedestal-dwelling sacred cows imaginable — it’s still hard to wrap one’s head around the fact that… Keep Reading »
Arranged Marriage: Mixing It Up With Flowers and Art
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
In 2007, the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht produced a series of Blow Up photos by freezing flower arrangements in liquid nitrogen and then exploding them, capturing the split second they were morphing into space junk. What exactly does that series have to do with ikebana? (That is, the… Keep Reading »
Adam Thirlwell's Delighted States of literary criticism
Lost in translation
By MARC WEINGARTEN
At a time when literary criticism is getting the boot in print media, and factually challenged wags on countless book blogs seethe with score-settling enmity, 30-year-old Adam Thirlwell is a refreshing throwback to the thoughtful man of letters who hides his radical heart behind the worn lapels of a… Keep Reading »
Books
A Meeting of Strange Minds: Peter Ivers, David Lynch and Devo
By JOSH FRANK
History is made at midnight: Excerpt from Josh Frank's In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theater
Girl, Interrupted: Denise Hamilton's The Last Embrace
By THOMAS PERRY
In 2001, an editor at Scribner sent me the manuscript of a first novel…
Into the Wild: Janet Sarbanes and Leni Zumas
By MARC WEINGARTEN
New short fiction tackles unsettling subject matter
Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight
By JIM RULAND
Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées
The Story of a Marriage: Gay Love in the Time of Eisenhower
By MARC WEINGARTEN
Andrew Sean Greer's novel is far from real
Mark Sarvas on His Elegant Variation and the Inelegant Review of Harry, Revised
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
Yes, but can he write?
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The chapter headings of Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua’s first novel sound like the titles of…
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I have on my desk two new books on a subject that now seems…
Art
Arranged Marriage: Mixing It Up With Flowers and Art
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
In 2007, the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht produced a series of Blow Up…
No Strings Attached: Puppetry at SMMOA; Kori Newkirk at PMCA
By HOLLY MYERS
Animation sparks magic in these bodies of art
Art Around Town: Flux Soup
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
The magic of Marlene Dumas; the theater of Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
But students and fearful faculty beg to differ
Art Around Town
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Annie Lapin at Angles Gallery; Monika Baer at Richard Telles Fine Art; Yvette Gellis at Kim Light Gallery
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Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish
By PAUL YOUNG
At Carlson & Co., they do it with art
Light and (Social) Space
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Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves
Art Pick
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Peter Frank Has Left the [Weekly] Building
By Peter Frank
So many shows, so little time; always the problem in this compact column, but…
Figures of Authority: Jean Conner, Jerome Witkin
By Peter Frank
Works on view at Michael Kohn and Jack Rutberg galleries
Art 2006
Reel World
Slideshows
Insiders, Outsiders and the Middle Art Opening
The Giant Robot curated show at Scion Space, featuring work by Space Invader, Kami, Ed Trask and more
Resonate / Obliterate
Ron Athey and Julie Tolentino in a bloody good performance piece.
Downtown Art Walk - July 10, 2008
On the second Thursday of every month, downtown L.A.\'s galleries and museums stay open late to showcase their new work.
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