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Wide Open Skyspaces
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Arts Features
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Just before sunset in late April, architect Duncan Nicholson brought a group of guests down the steep hill behind the brashly spectacular, John... More >>
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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 >>
From the Print Edition
How James Turrell's Skyspaces Became a Hot Item for L.A. Art Collectors
Just before sunset in late April, architect Duncan Nicholson brought a group of guests down the steep hill behind the brashly spectacular, John Lautner–designed Sheats-Goldstein house, now owned by Jim… More >>
Solo Show At the Flash Looks at a Single Gay Bar Through the Decades
In March 2012, Ian MacKinnon presented a gay history one-man show at Moving Arts in Silver Lake, named Gay Hist-Orgy! Parts 1 & 2. It was a salacious performance that… More >>
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 >>
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