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Aerial Perspective
Machine Project's oddball take on L.A. architecture, from a helicopter... More >>
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Public Spectacle
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New Theater Reviews
Our guide to L.A. shows playing this week More >>
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Art to See This Week
Five exhibits and events we recommend More >>
Arts Features
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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 >>
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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 >>
From the Print Edition
Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston
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 he'd been looking at architecture… More >>
Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe
How many theater companies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón's Neva, which just closed after playing its scheduled one week in a Kirk Douglas Theatre… More >>
A Mexican Telenovela Spawned a Teen Pop Sensation. Artist Yvonne Venegas Documented the Insanity
In a photograph, Anahi, the actress-singer who uses only one name and plays high school superstar Mia in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde, stares at the camera with an expression that… More >>
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013: Our Preview
See also: *All of our Hollywood Fringe 2013 reviews from L.A. Weekly critics "Most of the stuff is awful, but it brings an entirely different crowd to the theater," says a local… More >>
Why Two Celebrated Theaters Have to Leave Their Hollywood Homes
Last month, at about the same time, Open Fist Theatre Company and Celebration Theatre gave notice to their respective landlords, the primary reason being rent increases that were pricing them… More >>
