Art History

Wayne's World

Hastings Plastics: Legendary Maker of Sculptures for L.A. Artists Closes After 55 Years

History Hoarder

Joe Swanberg's Full Moon trilogy

The auteur answers critics who call him a sexually depraved narcissist

Shifra Goldman Celebrated as the Godmother of Chicano Art

Photo courtesy of the FamilyDr. Shifra Goldman led efforts to restore the David Alfaro Siqueiros Mural at Olvera Street.​In many ways, art historian, scholar and political activist Shifra Goldman was the madrina -- the godmother -- of Chicano art. A memorial service in her honor held October 1 ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Don't Be Overwhelmed. Just Take it Slow.

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Pre-Raphaelites and Their Followers: British and American Drawings from The Huntington's Collections

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Berlinteresting

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Art-Speak to Love

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Roy Lichtenstein: In Process

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

REAL GENTEEL

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Raphael's The Small Cowper Madonna

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Burri My Art in the Hollywood Hills

"Combustione: Alberto Burri and America" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Gorky's Debt

The genealogy of an action pioneer

Alice Neel at L.A. Louver

The genealogy of an action pioneer

Sculpture Exhibit

The genealogy of an action pioneer

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

The Power of Negative Thinking

Rachel Whiteread's inner spaces, Karen Carson's inflammatory paces

From Nietzsche to Star Wars: The Wagnerian Power of The Ring

Rachel Whiteread's inner spaces, Karen Carson's inflammatory paces

Picasso: All Mixed Up

Rachel Whiteread's inner spaces, Karen Carson's inflammatory paces

Matter's Most

Mercedes' nondealership

Lemonade Opens a 4th Location at MOCA: Abstract Expressionism Requires Food

Lemonade, which just opened a third location on Abbot Kinney in Venice last mongh, is set to open a fourth in a week or two: a museum cafe at MOCA. The opening date is tentatively set as "mid-September." The original Lemonade is on Beverly Boulevard; the second location is in on South Flower Street ... More >>

Camilo Ontiveros: “I Want Your Washing Machine” at Steve Turner Contemporary

Lemonade, which just opened a third location on Abbot Kinney in Venice last mongh, is set to open a fourth in a week or two: a museum cafe at MOCA. The opening date is tentatively set as "mid-September." The original Lemonade is on Beverly Boulevard; the second location is in on South Flower Street ... More >>

Furniture Your Imagination Vomited Up

It must be one of the best jobs in the world to work for Droog, the Dutch design collective that creates furniture like this Log Bench (which you can buy for $20,932 from Retromodern). Or maybe it's one of the most insane jobs in the world. They make stuff like this Chest of Drawers below. Their des ... More >>

Flower Drum Dance

It must be one of the best jobs in the world to work for Droog, the Dutch design collective that creates furniture like this Log Bench (which you can buy for $20,932 from Retromodern). Or maybe it's one of the most insane jobs in the world. They make stuff like this Chest of Drawers below. Their des ... More >>

Still Lives

New Chinese Cinema at UCLA and REDCAT

Points of View

Internal and external landscapes at Griffin and Helfen galleries

The Art Outlaws of East L.A.

They called themselves Asco and pulled off stunts that tweaked the establishment, but love affairs, jealousy and rival newcomers tore them apart

The Other Coast

West meets East in “The Modern West”

Achille Perilli, Marc Trujillo

At Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Must See Art

B. Wurtz at Richard Telles Fine Art and Maaike Schoorel at Marc Foxx

Pictures From the Past

B. Wurtz at Richard Telles Fine Art and Maaike Schoorel at Marc Foxx

James Brooks, Fumiko Amano

B. Wurtz at Richard Telles Fine Art and Maaike Schoorel at Marc Foxx

Features

B. Wurtz at Richard Telles Fine Art and Maaike Schoorel at Marc Foxx

Real Fakes

Richard Pettibone and F. Scott Hess in Laguna

Out Standing in His Field

Gustave Courbet and the landscape of Modernism

First Impressions

Tales from the Pissarro world

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

The Colors! The Colors!

Playing “Visual Music” at MOCA

The End of Donald Kuspit?

The opening of his "California New Old Masters"

It’s Alive!

Art of the Living Dead

Messy, Tactile, Beautiful

Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer

Pushkin Comes to Shove

Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer

Slow Dazzle

Contemplating Milton Avery

Art Galleries

Contemplating Milton Avery

The New York Century

It's no sensation

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

MOCA's Two Heads

Richard Koshalek,Outgoing Jeremy Strick, Incoming

My Vincent

R.B. Kitaj on van Gogh