This week, flowers and fetish photos hang one on top of the other at LACMA, the Getty throws a party for an 80-year-old mural and an artist shadows a possibly imaginary former classmate. 5. Nine-year-long sci-fi opera Kathleen Johnson's Brainchild, a performance in nine parts set to unfold over ni ... More >>
This piece is part of our package on L.A.'s war on street art, including: *Los Angeles' War on Street Artists *The Secrets of L.A. Street Art: Bumblebee, Sharktoof and Linelinedot Discuss Their Work More stories on street art from L.A. Weekly: *Our cover story on MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit ... More >>
Could the L.A. City Council be any more out-of-touch with its half-lidded constituents this fine 4/20? In a move reminiscent of Invisible Children declaring April 20, 2012 "Kony Day" (the looney Evangelical charity apparently expects us to do activism and stuff while stoned), councilmembers are cho ... More >>
Sometimes stories start simply: In 1999, Dave Tourje, an artist who supported himself through construction, purchased a house. He bought it for many of the reasons other people buy their cribs, but what it wound up giving him was a calling. The 1907 residence had been the South Pasadena home of Nelb ... More >>
Exposing América Tropical and the painful truths of a whitewashed city
CHOUINARD SCHOOL OF ART REBORN, REVAMPED
Selected highlights of the fall and winter season
A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules
It’s time for new thinking at the old Pueblo
But no warm regards
