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Outside every building construction site, there's a box on wheels that's around 8 feet wide by 20 feet long. It's a simple structure, built to... More >>
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You might resent artist Urs Fischer after seeing his survey at MOCA. Fischer, a Swiss artist who lives mostly in New York and produces... More >>
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Gary Baseman is sitting in his studio and looking at various odd figures in the pages of a recent sketchbook. "Who is this motherfucker? I don't... More >>
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"It won't work," artist Refik Anadol says of Google Glass, those newly introduced "augmented reality glasses," which have a battery behind the... More >>
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Last year's color was Tangerine Tango, a deep orange "energy boost." In 2011, it was Honeysuckle, a hot pink that "lifts spirits and imparts... More >>
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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 >>
From the Print Edition
What Office Trailers Can Teach Us About Los Angeles
Outside every building construction site, there's a box on wheels that's around 8 feet wide by 20 feet long. It's a simple structure, built to stay within the width of… More >>
With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera
It's taken 11 years to get director-lyricist Richard Sparks and composer Lee Holdridge's new opera, Dulce Rosa, from the germ of an idea to a full production. Sparks and Holdridge have… More >>
Urs Fischer Traffics in Clichés — But That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
You might resent artist Urs Fischer after seeing his survey at MOCA. Fischer, a Swiss artist who lives mostly in New York and produces iconoclastic messes with paradoxical precision, has… More >>
Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New
There's a road leading from the Actors Theatre of Louisville (Ky.) to Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group. Now onstage at CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City is the second… More >>
Colorblind and I'm Not Rappaport, Two Plays Dealing With Race Relations
Wallace Demarria bills himself as executive producer, writer, director and star of his play Colorblind, playing through the weekend at Meta Theatre. Such multiple, key credits landing on one person… More >>
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