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This week, music videos get higher-art treatment, quirky paintings hang in Koreatown and a straight-shooting L.A. artist has a debut show at her new gallery. 5. Finding artistry on MTV "We believe... More >>
One imperfectly painted silver canvas with tie-dyed pink cloth loosely attached to its surface angles across another silver canvas in the basement... More >>
The Voynich Manuscript, written sometime in the 1400s or 1500s, has never been read. No one knows how to decipher the mystery language it was... More >>
In a photograph, Anahi, the actress-singer who uses only one name and plays high school superstar Mia in the Mexican telenovela... More >>
This week, one artist turns pop icons into haunting, dripping messes and another visits a burning volcano again and again. 5. Do architects believe in truthr "I've been told to tell you that the sl... More >>
That twilight period before the sun is officially up takes around 20 minutes most mornings. Minneapolis-based artist Cameron Gainer's... More >>
See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is This week, a man becomes a god in a play set in a midcentury landmark and an artist... More >>
One night in 1923, notoriously hotheaded Surrealist Andre Breton hit the much smaller, less notorious Pierre de Massot with his cane. He did so... More >>
At Honor Fraser gallery, artist Kaz Oshiro's bright monochromes do not quite fit the spaces he has chosen for them. One yellow-orange canvas, hung... More >>
In Sausalito-based artist Christiane Lyon's oil paintings, on view at MJ Briggs Gallery on Fairfax, quirky cultural references dissolve into loose... More >>
This week, an artist turns two galleries and a storage unit into pseudo-sets for a remake of a Western, and 29 L.A. painters show in a former downtown bank. 5. Finally finished "Little Ellie, what ha... More >>
Just before sunset in late April, architect Duncan Nicholson brought a group of guests down the steep hill behind the brashly spectacular, John... More >>
This week, footage about a high-energy collaboration between artists, architects and Pepsi plays at the MAK Center, one artist leads people on a hunt for truth and other intangibles at the Getty and... More >>
First you see the swirl of purple graffiti, then the broken glass and the splashes of dirty water. Then, finally, you might see the painted... More >>
This week, an artist makes deadpan jokes in vintage photographs, whistlers convene in Glendale and a Japanese novelist's tragedy of frustrated love is re-staged in Mexico. 5. Crowd of copycats It's ... More >>
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Five months after a 340-ton rock officially became part of Michael Heizer's ... More >>
"It seems like you love [paint] more than anybody I know," Dennis Szakacs, the Orange County Museum of Art's director, said to artist Richard... More >>
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 >>
This week, an alien-inspired concert/party happens at an iconic bowling alley, and two artists make intricate renderings of mystery plants. 5. The art star with the bloody head In Happy Song for You,... More >>
If folk illustrator Grandma Moses collaborated with pop realist David Hockney, the result might look like Eric Ernest Johnson's loosely rendered... More >>
L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.... More >>
This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts D... More >>
This week, an Yves Saint Laurent suit hangs in an elementary school, Marilyn Monroe sings in a Century City bathroom, and a group of writers revises a 1980s tome on looking your best. 5. OK, kids, ... More >>
Every year, Pantone, the 50-year-old company famous for forecasting which colors will be popular when, names a color of the year. This year, it's... More >>
Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of... More >>
