Since moving to Los Angeles from his native Israel at age 12, all this pianist has done is win a national Yamaha keyboard competition and tour Japan as a teenager, join the famed Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, have an album (Destinations, 2010) reach No. 1 on the jazz charts and become the... More >>

Opus Eponymous, the 2011 debut album from Sweden’s Ghost B.C., was a refreshing blast of ’70s-inspired melodic metal that threw back to the days when Blue Öyster Cult reigned supreme. Songs like “Stand by Him” and “Ritual” were delightfully catchy odes... More >>

Holy Fire, the third album from the Oxford, England-based outfit Foals, sees the art/dance, math/rock experimental dabbles of the group’s previous works take form. Under the tutelage of accomplished progressive producers Alan Moulder (Bloc Party, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins) and... More >>

You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery of LACMA's "Ends and Exits" show. There you'll find a yellow tarp across which Keith Haring painted his red, rambunctious characters, and the dress of white... More >>

Just when you thought you'd figured out what art really is, Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer is where modern art and the Protestant work ethic weirdly intersect, which is to say that a 340-ton granite megalith painstakingly transported over two weeks from Riverside sits in a 456-foot-long slot,... More >>

After the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's joint acquisition with the Getty of Robert Mapplethorpe's art and archives proved to be a major coup, LACMA now holds the distinction of being the first U.S. art institution to host an exhibit dedicated to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The... More >>