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The Moon Is Up

No Fun Allowed: It's Damn Hard to Legally Host Live Music in L.A.

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life screens in West Adams and a light show plays out in a corner in Culver City. 5. Mind games When artist J ... More >>

10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *25 Alternative L.A. Art Spaces to Check Out Now *10 Places in L.A. to Draw Nude Models With something like 400 modern and contemporary art galleries in L.A., and aesthetic taste being so subjective, picking just ten of the city's "best" galleries i ... More >>

Fellowship of the C.O.L.A.

Design Loves Art

Motoi Yamamoto Makes Enormous Art Installations Entirely of Salt

Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto loves the same thing everyone else loves about Los Angeles. "The weather is great," he said eagerly through an interpreter. But for Yamamoto the dry, temperate climate isn't just good for year-round tomatoes and brunching on patios in the winter -- it's ideal for his ... More >>

How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

Grand Opening Party for Café Dulce's Downtown Pop-Up Tonight

Café Dulce has been serving fine coffee and pastries to the Little Tokyo community for a little more than a year now, and, starting tonight, also will have a presence in the South Park neighborhood of Downtown: The shop will launch an indefinite pop-up coffee bar in an empty converted warehouse spa ... More >>

My Little Pony Project Brings Bronies and Pegasisters to Toy Art Gallery

See also: *More photos from the My Little Pony Project opening at Toy Art Gallery *Top 5 Lessons for Adults From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic *Boba Fett as a Girl: N.C. Winters Mashes Up Star Wars and My Little Pony in 'Abandoned Menagerie' Just before 8:30 p.m., when the line to enter Toy ... More >>

Five Unusual Designer Toys Based on Celebrities

There's no shortage of toys and merchandise based on celebrities floating around the Internet, but some are a bit more unusual than others. In the designer toy and art toy world, artists turn recognizable figures into vinyl characters and mash them up with other pop culture references into amazing s ... More >>

Laguna Dances

Matthew Marks, Blue Chip NY Gallery, Opens New WeHo Space Next to a Mortuary and a Pot Dispensary

Artwork © Ellsworth Kelly. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.The new gallery's luscious interior, with its current show of recent Ellsworth Kelly works.​ I first got wind of the news that Matthew Marks was opening a new gallery in Los Angeles about a year ago. When a big, we ... More >>

Marcus Coates' Journey to the Lower World at Pitzer College Art Galleries: Can Deer Antlers Solve America's Housing Problem?

Photo: Nick David. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London.Still from Marcus Coates' 30-minute video Journey to the Lower World ​ The two-channel video work Journey to the Lower World by British artist Marcus Coates is a high point in an exceptionally engaging exhibition closing today ... More >>

A Civics Lesson for the Arts

Art Gallery Food Files: The Evolution of Exhibition Opening Food

jgarbeeNew Opening Night Diversity: Heels Chef Clogs At Gallery KM​There was a time when art gallery openings typically featured a cubed cheese platter and the sort of cheap wine that made even die-hard red wine drinkers switch to white for the night. (The chill helped mask the unpleasantnes ... More >>

LA Vampires - Dem Passwords - 8/3/11

Ethan Higbee LA Vampires​LA Vampires Dem Passwords art gallery 8/3/11 Better than...Um, wine? LA Vampires is the latest project from Amanda Brown, who was formerly in Pocahaunted with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino. She performed last night with her husband Britt Brown and Nick Malkin, the t ... More >>

Outta Site

Raphael's The Small Cowper Madonna

Musical Art Spaces

Gallery life: openings, closures and reopenings

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD BOOK ABOUT SCREW-UPS TO RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY

Five Reasons Comic-Con Should Move to L.A.

Shannon CottrellVenture Bros. cosplayers at Comic-Con​ As L.A. Weekly has been reporting for several weeks now, the buzz is strong that San Diego Comic-Con may have outgrown San Diego. Should the event decide to leave the city where it blossomed from a small fan gathering to a mega-convention, ... More >>

RSVP ASAP!: Fantastic Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Opening @ the Arclight Tonight

If you attended any of the fantastic shows the Hollywood Bowl programmed this past summer, you probably noticed the very large crowds gathered at the gift shop afterwards practically getting in fisticuffs over the limited number of concert posters available. The reason? The Bowl commissioned some ou ... More >>

Getty Outdoor Concert

Art LA and Los Angeles Art Show

Where Art Thy Art Fairs Now?

BY TOM CHRISTIEThe fairs are moving on up: With the Los Angeles Art Show heading downtown to the L.A. Convention Center (Jan. 21-25), both PHOTO LA (Jan. 9-11) and ART LA (Jan. 23-25) are moving into the vacated Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport.  All three fairs show improvement, and will ... More >>

C.R.A.N.K Mob Does Not Go Gentle Into The Night

Obama Iron Man

Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd post that too, but darn if we haven't seen any. While we're at it, here's the big Shepard Fairey Hope piece that was on the wall of his gallery and st ... More >>

Reyes Rodriguez

The artist's epiphany

Da Camera and Dim Sum

Melody of China performs at Empress Pavilion

Art Openings

For the week of March 16-22

Bondage and Multidiscipline

We Activists

Flat Out of Skid Row

Cardboard-box condos, L.A.’s first flat-file gallery and the ultimate California f(art) joke