Cultural History

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

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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 >>

Endeavor Space Shuttle to Get Permanent Home at California Science Center in Exposition Park, NASA Says

NASAEndeavor.​Updated after the jump with reaction from Exposition Park-area county leader Mark Ridley-Thomas. As NASA retires its space shuttle program, L.A. will get a piece of that history -- permanently. The space agency announced today that the California Science Center in Exposition Pa ... More >>

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NASAEndeavor.​Updated after the jump with reaction from Exposition Park-area county leader Mark Ridley-Thomas. As NASA retires its space shuttle program, L.A. will get a piece of that history -- permanently. The space agency announced today that the California Science Center in Exposition Pa ... More >>

Art-Speak to Love

NASAEndeavor.​Updated after the jump with reaction from Exposition Park-area county leader Mark Ridley-Thomas. As NASA retires its space shuttle program, L.A. will get a piece of that history -- permanently. The space agency announced today that the California Science Center in Exposition Pa ... More >>

"Sputnik Moment"? We're Having a Sigue Sigue Sputnik Moment!

Tonight, Barack Obama referred to a past generation's "Sputnik moment" during the State of the Union address, and mentioned the lack of one for this generation. We disagree--they might have had a Sputnik moment, but we had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik moment. And it's still awesome after all these year ... More >>

Roy Lichtenstein: In Process

Tonight, Barack Obama referred to a past generation's "Sputnik moment" during the State of the Union address, and mentioned the lack of one for this generation. We disagree--they might have had a Sputnik moment, but we had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik moment. And it's still awesome after all these year ... More >>

REAL GENTEEL

Tonight, Barack Obama referred to a past generation's "Sputnik moment" during the State of the Union address, and mentioned the lack of one for this generation. We disagree--they might have had a Sputnik moment, but we had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik moment. And it's still awesome after all these year ... More >>

Raphael's The Small Cowper Madonna

Tonight, Barack Obama referred to a past generation's "Sputnik moment" during the State of the Union address, and mentioned the lack of one for this generation. We disagree--they might have had a Sputnik moment, but we had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik moment. And it's still awesome after all these year ... More >>

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

Tonight, Barack Obama referred to a past generation's "Sputnik moment" during the State of the Union address, and mentioned the lack of one for this generation. We disagree--they might have had a Sputnik moment, but we had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik moment. And it's still awesome after all these year ... 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

Live Review: Timur and the Dime Museum at the Central Library

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

WHO'S STARRY NOW?

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

Alice Neel at L.A. Louver

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

Sculpture Exhibit

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

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

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Aztec Art Exhibit

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Picasso: All Mixed Up

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Matter's Most

Mercedes' nondealership

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

Mercedes' nondealership

Who Doesn't Love a Film Parade?

Mercedes' nondealership

Charlie Don't Surf

Mercedes' nondealership

Flower Drum Dance

Mercedes' nondealership

City in Lights

Mercedes' nondealership

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

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

First Impressions

Tales from the Pissarro world

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

Space(F)light

Sailing the solar wind to the stars

Pushkin Comes to Shove

Sailing the solar wind to the stars

Beetles and Boys

Sailing the solar wind to the stars

Slow Dazzle

Contemplating Milton Avery

Legends: Man vs. Cat

Contemplating Milton Avery

The New York Century

It's no sensation

The Lunar Shot

The most expensive photographs ever taken

A Clockwork L'Orange

Glen Berger’s playful homage to science