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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bryan Cranston in a Sleeping Bag

This week, a collector prays for more art and a composer explores negative YouTube energy. 5. God willing Art collector Danny First has been making benches -- they're black and would be nondescript if not for the bold prayers written across their backs. "Oh, Lord Won't You Buy Me a Grotjahn?" says ... More >>

Intrinsic logic

When Art Meets Therapy

Heavy-duty delicacy

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Ultrasound Gel to a Double-Decker Bus

This week, the soul of Whitney Houston leads a bus tour and an artist turns a garish movie poster into an eerie abstraction. 5. Thirty-one summer nights Post, the downtown space artist run by HK Zamani, now operates for only one month each summer, when its pop-up Kamikaze exhibitions take place. Ea ... More >>

Takashi Murakami's New Culver City Show Includes Monks, Skulls, Flowers, Manga Characters and More

See also: *Takashi Murakami Premiered His Very Weird First Feature Film at LACMA Last Night *Shibuya Girls Pop: Cute Rebellion Takashi Murakami is no stranger to Los Angeles. Just last week, his first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, premiered at LACMA. Back in 2008, the traveling show "© Murakami" l ... More >>

Making history move

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a 28-Foot-Tall Dog Urinating on a Museum

This week, one artist makes paintings that smear and explode while another makes an ancient monument look lively and a third installs a Dutch living room in a storefront. 5. The better to hear you with Elana Mann, who has spent the last few years thinking about how to make listening and hearing mor ... More >>

Tribute to the chart toppers

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cereal in Balloons

This week, one artist pays homage to hits of the 1960s, another pays homage to a discount store and a group of photographers make images too unwieldy to hang on a wall. 5. Jazz without music Free-jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor has a deep, mysterious voice, and his readings sound like his play ... More >>

A psychoanalyst's hairdresser

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Human Microphone

This week, artists fix up and sell other artists' artwork, a choir performs songs based on protest techniques and discarded packing material invades pop culture. 5. Paper girls in a dress shop In Satine Boutique on Third Street, artist Bari Ziperstein's 3-D girl made of newspaper-colored paper is d ... More >>

Criminal activity

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Explosives in the Book of Genesis

This week, an opera singer gone brilliantly rogue performs downtown, a celebrated curator who's something of a crusader visits the Miracle Mile and more group shows round out the list. 5. The curator who keeps going and going Hans Ulrich Obrist makes "being a curator like a spiritual vocation," say ... More >>

Legos and accidents

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock's Debut

This week, a temporary exhibition takes over Mount Wilson Observatory, an artist reflects on Hurricane Katrina and LACMA's Levitated Mass finally opens to the public. 5. The artist and the hurricane "It is important you trust me enough to follow my thoughts but mistrust me enough to question them," ... More >>

Eleanor Antin & Simone Forti

Lena Dunham's Girls and Her Dad Carroll's Drawings: Two Approaches to Making Us Uncomfortable

Before the New York Studio Program moved from lower Manhattan to DUMBO, art students there used to gaze from their studios into the apartment painter Carroll Dunham shared with his wife, photo artist Laurie Simmons. Sometimes, they could watch the two eating dinner. Maybe they could see the artists' ... More >>

Voice without a generation

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Lena Dunham's Dad's Drawings

This week's list includes a show about incarceration, Lena Dunham's dad and art for gamers. 5. Behind bars Artist Jennifer Moon was incarcerated for nine months, though nothing in her current exhibition at Commonwealth and Council tells us why -- except to say she was "a common criminal," not a "po ... More >>

Big hole

Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Big Holes and Female High Jumpers

This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

Mono-ha, the Japanese "School of Things," at Blum & Poe

Banks Violette's Sculptures Inspired by NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

"I'm pretty sure my fans will wear this award as a badge of honor," racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. said when he accepted the 2011 Most Popular NASCAR Driver Award in December. "And so they should, because the award is theirs." This was the ninth consecutive time Earnhardt Jr., whose grandfather was a rac ... More >>

Samara Golden's Rape of the Mirror Transforms Night Gallery Into Beachside Villa in the 'Sixth Dimension'...With a Jacuzzi

The buzz on Night Gallery -- a unique art space in Lincoln Heights that is only open between 10pm and 2am, Tuesday through Thursday -- is growing steadily. A few months ago, co-proprietors Davida Nemeroff and Mieke Marple made the decision to turn the gallery into a full-on commercial venture, and s ... More >>

Crowd-Pleasing Portraitist

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Chuck Close, Aaron Curry, Richard Hawkins and a Guide to Suburban Survival

Courtesy David Kordansky GalleryA view of Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins' collaboration​ The November/December gallery scene looks like it might be pretty exciting this year, starting with a surprising collaboration and crowd-pleasing paintings in Culver City. 5. Surviving the O.C. James Lu ... More >>

Louis Vuitton's Copyright Claim Against Artist Nadia Plesner Thrown Out by Dutch Court

​The Louis Vuitton logo has appeared on all kinds of ridiculous things, from Mexican bungalows to live pigs, but the luxury brand seemed particularly irked when its signature multi-colored design appeared on an Audra handbag carried by a starving Somali child. The re-appropriated design, whic ... More >>

Turning a Negative Into a Positive

Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

Musical Art Spaces

Gallery life: openings, closures and reopenings

A Play on Worlds

Tim Hawkinson's latest spin

Mark Grotjahn and J.B. Blunk at Blum & Poe

True Lies II

The Yes Men fix the world

Art LA and Los Angeles Art Show

Opening Week at L.A. Galleries

The fall art season begins

Art Around Town: Daniel Dove, M.A. Peers and Takashi Murakami

Also, Carmine Iannaccone, Soo Kim and Sandeep Mukherjee

Darkness Falls, Abstraction Illuminates

Christine Nguyen, Daniel Richter, Mel Bochner, Victor Man

Must See Art

Hirsch Perlman’s “ergo despero” and Vincent Johnson’s “Civil Air Defense Project #1”

Must See Art

“Last Resort” by Mark Mann at Taylor De Cordoba and auction time

Must See Art

Dave Muller, “Piles & Globes, Likes & Loves” and Paul Pfeiffer at MC

Must See Art

Pictures From the Unibrow Revolution

Or, how outlaw art went mainstream

State of the Art ’05

A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

Hot Spot

Talking Culver City and the international art market with Blum & Poe

Most Overrated Art Shows

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

Absolut Hot and Absolut Not

The L.A. International Biennial Invitational . . . whatever

Michael Darling's (Museum and Gallery) Top 10 Plus 10

Takashi Murakami at Blum & Poe

Sharon Lockhart

at Blum & Poe