Featured Art+Books Stories
Dan Corson and Catherine Wagner's Illuminating Ideas
Let there be light bulbs
By Peter Frank
“Neon in daylight is a great pleasure,” Frank O’Hara wrote (attributing it to his friend Edwin Denby), “as are light bulbs in daylight.” Still and all, the best time to see Dan Corson’s Empyrean Passage is at dusk, when it turns on, and at dawn, just before it turns off. Twenty-odd metal hoops comprise… Keep Reading »
New Fiction: "Sunday"
Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story
By JOE DONNELLY
It started up again. … Keep Reading »
A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement
Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you
By ALAN RICH
Back in September 1964, Jascha Heifetz, the formidable fiddler, was attempting an ill-advised comeback recital at Carnegie Hall. The crowd out front was enormous, and it naturally included many people with long faces hoping for a turned-back ticket to this sold-out event. I was covering it as a music critic for the New York… Keep Reading »
Books
A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement
By ALAN RICH
Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you
Sex and the Country: Do Me and Sex for America
By HILLARY JOHNSON
Two collections of erotica feel us up
Loquat: A Short Story
By ETGAR KERET
Go on, Henri, go talk to them. You’re a gendarme, they’ll listen to you.”…
Teaching for America in Crips Territory: Relentless Pursuit
By DIANA WAGMAN
Hope and little glory at an L.A. high school
The Lost City; The Voyage of the Short Serpent; the Wonder, the Horror
By Nathan Ihara
Two debut novels journey to the farthest reaches
Goodbye, Dutton's!
Writers remember the great Brentwood bookstore on the occasion of its closing
Readings Pick
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Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexie
By Matthew Fleischer
Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences
WLS '07
BEK
WLS '06
Weekly Literary Supplement
Summer reading
WLS '05
Small Press Is Beautiful
By JUSTIN CLARK
BükAmerica If Thomas Paine were to publish Common Sense today (assuming such sedition would be…
The Gathering Storm
By BRENDAN BERNHARD
Judith Regan, the world’s most successful publisher, heads for the coast
WLS '04
The Great Divide
By Jade Chang
The chapter headings of Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua’s first novel sound like the titles of…
An Island of Words
By Michelle Huneven
Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing
Comics
Art
LACMA East: "Phantom Sightings" Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
"Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement” begins with photos chronicling the art collective…
The Paradoxes of Sandeep Mukherjee
By Holly Myers
"The mass of the mountain ... entwined with the space of its valley"
Must See Art
Must See Art: John Humble, Donald Urquhart
By Amra Brooks
John Humble, “Sunday Afternoon” at the Rose Gallery Coming up with his own take…
Must See Art
By Amra Brooks
John Humble, “Sunday Afternoon” at the Rose Gallery Coming up with his own take…
L.A. Art '08
Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish
By PAUL YOUNG
At Carlson & Co., they do it with art
Light and (Social) Space
By CHRISTOPHER MILES
Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves
Art Pick
Jim Lutes' Visual Rants, Laddie John Dill's Monumental Materialism
By Peter Frank
On view at Kinkead and L.A. Contemporary
Art 2006
Reel World
Slideshows
Uncommon Gardens: Art from Catherine Brooks, Caia Koopman, Kelly Vivanco
Thinkspace art show opening also features works by Lilly Piri, Kris Chau and Ghostpatrol
It\'s A Beautiful World Opening
Scion\'s Fourth Art Tour Ends in L.A. with works by Retna, Blek Le Rat, The London Police and more
JIm Howser Mere Inches Solo Show
At Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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