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Theatre Issue 2013
Why be a playwright in L.A.? More >>
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Public Spectacle
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New Theater Reviews
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Art to See This Week
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See also: Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview In 1979, architect Thom Mayne hosted 10 exhibits, one a week,... More >>
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What can paintings do? According to Laura Owens, they can be clocked and stretched, gridded and smeared, silkscreened with armies of cats and... More >>
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Photographer Catherine Opie is perhaps best known for her portraits featuring the heavily pierced and tattooed bodies of the LGBT community, or... More >>
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Fed up with constant road rage and homesick for the East Coast, stencil artist Logan Hicks left Los Angeles for New York in 2007. After living... More >>
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Curated with clarity and vision by Orange County Museum of Art director Dennis Szakacs, "Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain" is the first... More >>
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Right now at Kings Road House in West Hollywood, there are three copies of one book: one tucked beside a fireplace, another on an otherwise empty... More >>
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Pioneering artist Llyn Foulkes wasn't born in Los Angeles, but since moving to the city more than a half-century ago, L.A. has burrowed its way... More >>
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"Sex alleviates tension," Woody Allen wrote. "Love causes it." Usually around Valentine's Day, we have a special Sex issue. But this year, we... More >>
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Since Night Gallery opened in a shabby Lincoln Heights strip mall in February 2010, it has carved a singular niche for itself in the Los Angeles... More >>
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Upon entering the 2013 MexiCali Biennial, visitors will be asked by a security guard to position their heads in the oval opening of a steel... More >>
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Artist Jack Pierson holds a machine gun in the noir-ish new ad for his soon-to-open exhibition at Regen Projects. A friend, movie marketer Tim... More >>
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The first test patterns I ever saw were slapsticky meta-jokes mixed into after-school cartoons. Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck might walk off frame and... More >>
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Iconic books about L.A. history have titles like History of Forgetting, Canyon of Dreams or — my favorite — The Truth About Los... More >>
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See the strips in the L.A. Weekly's 2012 Comics Issue -- featuring artists Michael Bennett Brown, Anthony Mostrom, Dr. Shroud and Jakob... More >>
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Picasso once said all men are born artists. The problem is, they grow up. In a popular 2006 TED Talk, educator Ken Robinson wowed audiences with... More >>
From the Print Edition
Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?
Toward the end of the new, futuristic play The Nether, a female detective faces the man she's been investigating — a man who has created a sexually deviant virtual reality.… More >>
Alexander Woo, a Playwright Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 'Idiot Box'
Achieving an entirely plausible yet unorthodox version of "success" — at least for a playwright — Alexander Woo has settled comfortably into TV as a writer-producer. A graduate of the… More >>
What Is Art Good For? Two Plays Answer the Question
With the arts always the first programs to be budget-cut in school curricula, and with the cries of woe on editorial pages that we're not training enough mathematicians and scientists… More >>
Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry and the Band of L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything
See also: Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview In 1979, architect Thom Mayne hosted 10 exhibits, one a week, in his own house, each featuring an emerging local… More >>
The Nether, Jennifer Haley's New Play at Kirk Douglas Theatre, Takes Place in a Virtual Reality of Sexual Fantasies
Jennifer Haley sets much of her new play, The Nether, in an elaborate virtual reality — think Second Life, where you wander about as your chosen avatar, but a hyped-up… More >>
How Laura Owens' New Boyle Heights Exhibit Moves Painting Forward
What can paintings do? According to Laura Owens, they can be clocked and stretched, gridded and smeared, silkscreened with armies of cats and personal ads, representational and abstract, both a… More >>
Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty
At the age of 80, Donald Freed is one of the oldest living American playwrights. A consequence of his age and his prolific output, Freed now offers a legacy of… More >>
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