Chris Burden

L.A. Art History Lessons on Twitter, in Emoji Form

A somewhat conservative institution like the Getty Museum isn't alway known for its sense of humor. And Richard Meier's modernist castle on the hill can be intimidating. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to see the Getty jumping on one of the more amusing Internet memes to pop up in the last, oh, 7 ... More >>

Artist Chris Burden's Quasi-Legal Skyscraper Rises Again

In 1991, Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden decided to add a studio structure on his own property, but he wanted to make it as big as he could without a building permit. After pouring over the building code, he found he could build a detached structure as long as it was under 400 square feet and ... More >>

Richard Serra, Ed Ruscha and Others Created Artwork to Help Obama. But Is it Any Good?

Richard Serra, the sculptor whose maze-like steel cylinders take up half the first floor of LACMA's Broad Contemporary building, made an uncharacteristically overt political drawing in 2004. In heavy, rough black crayon, he drew that disturbingly hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner with arms outstretched. He ... More >>

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 >>

May the Best Crust Win

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle

Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Techno in a Car Wreck

This week, an exhibition feels like a haunted graveyard, a performer turns his body into a chemistry experiment and a sculptor exploits building codes. 5. Devil's Night in the middle of the day In urban Detroit in the 1970s and '80s, the night before Halloween, called Devil's Night, was a mess of a ... More >>

How to Succeed on YouTube: Goof Off in Your Basement ... Only Better

Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

Ray's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Pacific Standard Time Fall Art Preview Celebrates L.A., a Great and Shitty Place to be an Artist

Institute for Arts & Media, California State University, NorthridgeRoland Charles' Portrait with Veil (1978) from the PST exhibit at California State University Northridge​ Our awesome fall art preview issue, which landed on newsstands this week, delves into Pacific Standard Time, this ridicu ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

The Three Stooges and Chris Burden: What Do They Have in Common?

An alternative history of comedy in L.A. art

Pacific Standard Time: Timeline 1945-1980

A short, admittedly reductive guide to postwar L.A. art

Chris Burden: Dead Man and a Hot Dog Stand

Pacific Standard Time: Celebrating the Freaks and Weirdos of L.A. Art

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/25-4/29

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minima ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

First Bite: Dining Artfully at Ray's

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minimalist rectangle that abuts the soaring Ahmanson gallery like a glass s ... More >>

Now Open: Ray's and Stark Bar at LACMA

L. Balla​ It's rare when a restaurant debuts on time in this town; it's even more remarkable when one opens ahead of schedule. But the stars -- or perhaps the "Urban Lights" -- aligned for Ray's and Stark Bar, the new Patina-owned, Kris Morningstar-helmed machine, which opened at LACMA on Sa ... More >>

Burri My Art in the Hollywood Hills

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

HONK IF YOU'RE PRETENTIOUS

There Go the Zeros

The passing of the first decayed

Barbara T. Smith: “Old Shoes: Performance Relics 1968-1975” at The Box

THE BOULEVARD OF TORN-DOWN DREAMS

THE BOULEVARD OF TORN-DOWN DREAMS

Lighten Up!

February will mark the one-year anniversary of artist-provocateur Chris Burden's Urban Light installation at LACMA . (You know, the forest of antique streetlights that separates Wilshire Boulevard from the museum). To celebrate, Burden and museum photography curator Charlotte Cotton invite Angelenos ... More >>

The Getty's Video Blockbuster

"California Video" gets all contemporary on us

Playtime

Chris Burden at Gagosian, Marion Lane at BLK/MRKT

Corpsefucker Makes Good

Up the hill backwards with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy

Kid Stuff

Practical jokes and comics: the season’s best art books

Reckless Behavior

Digitalforum: Video Masters: Classics From the '70s

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

Toontown Terrorist

Robert Williams and the beauty of the un-arts

Hecho Wherever

Massage Is the Medium

The deep-pressure art of Suwan Laimanee

Urban Myths: Busting the Black Dahlia Avenger

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

Vaffanculo! (A-Fucka-You-a)

Arte Povera at the Geffen and beyond

Warhol-by-Numbers

Peripheral Visions

The edge of L.A. in three dimensions

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

Slush

The Good Stuff

Doug Harvey's Top 10

X-Small

30 years of little art in Laguna

The Charles Ray Experience

At MOCA and beyond

1978 Timeline

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect