Slideshows
- Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including the 'Elliptical Comedy' Kin
- A Fake Ted Talk that Almost Makes Sense, Then Doesn't
- 5 Events for Word Lovers in L.A. This Week
- Whitey Bulger Is the Subject of Yet Another (Very Good) Book
- Marisa Tellez's New Memoir on Coming of Age During the Sunset Strip's Heyday
- Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the 'Furious Beauty'...
- 10 Touristy Places in L.A. That Are Actually Pretty Awesome
- Inside Tim & Eric's Company, Which Is Pushing the Boundaries of TV Comedy
- On Doug Aitken's Art Train, You Agree to Be Filmed, And Happy Hour Starts...
- Slash Explains How He Became a Horror Movie Producer
- The Best of West African Cinema, at LACMA and LMU
- Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Black-Light Painting Tour
- The Sting Turns 40, German and Polish Film Festivals and More: Your Weekly...
- Airbnb's Pop-Up Rooms Inspired by Celebrities Were Not Exactly a 'Love...
- An Arts Festival at LAX. Yes, LAX
- Wasteland Weekend: How Did This Post-Apocalyptic Convention Become So Romantic?
- Nick Offerman Explains How to Be a Man
- Radar L.A. Festival 2013: Experimental Theater From the Seductive to the...
- We Do Art to Stay Sane
- L.A. Podcast Festival Returns for Second Chapter
Arts Features
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On a blazing Sunday afternoon, the interior of downtown's Union Station provides a cool refuge from an early-September heat wave. But on this... More >>
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A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if... More >>
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These days, a lot of people want to get in on the game of exhibiting contemporary art in Los Angeles. Talk of soon-to-open venues is... More >>
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Here's how you play the "Which does MOCA own?" game: You go into any room of a contemporary artist's retrospective and scan everything there.... More >>
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It takes 29 shopping carts to hold up a house. Or that's how many it takes to hold up the timber-stud frame of a small, single-family house that... More >>
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There are no tubas in artist Alison O'Daniel's in-progress film The Tuba Thieves — at least none you see in full. You occasionally get... More >>
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If it weren't for all the life-sized board games, disassembled robot parts and electronic contraptions curiously sprawled in every corner of Two... More >>
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This week, the Architecture+ Design Museum's long-awaited exhibition "Never Built: Los Angeles" opens, highlighting plans for the city that never... More >>
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Artist Linda Montano became the Chicken Woman in 1971. She made nine clandestine appearances around San Francisco wearing a blue and white prom... More >>
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After 29 years of biennials, Orange County Museum of Art has decided to shed some excess weight and give itself a makeover. Slimmed down from... More >>
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After the Boy Scouts of America's national council voted to lift its ban on gay scouts under 18 — anyone gay and over 18 can, awkwardly,... More >>
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"Perhaps it was artistic inspiration or just sheer stupidity," artist Adam Mason writes of the time in 2009 when a small stone somehow got lodged... More >>
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Kamau Patton was having a drink at the BonaVista Lounge, the rotating bar atop the 34th floor of the Bonaventure Hotel downtown, when he realized... More >>
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In a photograph, Anahi, the actress-singer who uses only one name and plays high school superstar Mia in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde, stares... More >>
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"Los Angeles' identity is inextricably linked with the automobile," reads the first line of wall text opening the Getty's current show about... More >>
From the Print Edition
Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
In his absorbing solo show, St. Jude, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, gay-Latino writer-performer Luis Alfaro talks sincerely about himself, about growing up in California's Central Valley, and about his… More >>
On a blazing Sunday afternoon, the interior of downtown's Union Station provides a cool refuge from an early-September heat wave. But on this particular day, cool takes on its other… More >>
Theater @ Boston Court's program to its production of R II — what might otherwise be called William Shakespeare's Richard II — makes a point of not referring to the dramatist's work as a… More >>
GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach
A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if capturing and keeping sunlight… More >>
Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound
In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston writes, "The dramaturgy of Prometheus Bound asks us to question… More >>
