Dennis Hopper

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, May 20 Holy Ghost! TROUBADOUR It's been two years since the release of Holy Ghost!'s eponymous debut. Often hailed as LCD Soundsystem's heirs, the NYC-based duo's sound falls somewhere between Phoenix's precocious li ... More >>

A Diary of the Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture

"The San Andreas is not Los Angeles' only fault," cracked architectural historian Thomas Hines at the kickoff to Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.. Hines didn't really mean it -- he was quoting a joke that people from, say, San Francisco might make -- but the quip hit just ... More >>

Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things

A Set of Andy Warhol's Polaroids, Revealed for the First Time

At most opening nights for art shows, a savvy photographer weaves through the crowd toting a fancy digital camera, probably with a super expensive lens. But when visitors to the Luckman Gallery walked through its doors on a Saturday afternoon, a very different camera greeted them -- a Polaroid. For ... More >>

At the LACMA Collectors Committee, Art Acquisitions Become a Battle Royale

Want to be an Art Dealer? Take Our Quiz and Guess if These Works are Mega Pricey or Super Cheap

jgarbeeThe Hot Pink Catwalk Entry at the Affordable Art Fair​What a difference a few blocks make in the theory of relativity of art value. Yesterday, we went to the L.A. Art Show: Modern & Contemporary at the L.A. Convention Center and the Affordable Art Fair at the event deck at L.A. Live, bo ... More >>

Pasadena's PST Shows Make Everyday Things Into Art, Like Porn and Furniture

It's high time to brave the Pasadena Freeway, thanks to four landmark Pacific Standard Time shows with ambitious curators, catalogues, and historical reach in Pasadena. Pasadena/San Marino has its PST "focus" weekend this Saturday and Sunday, which means lots of extra events. Michael Duncan's "LA R ... More >>

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 >>

Five Artsy Things to See This Week, from Wallace Berman Films to Anti-Cute to a Show Inspired by a Bigelow Tea

Courtesy Regen Projects and MOCA Los AngelesSue Williams' 1992 painting "The Art World Can Suck My Proverbial Dick"​ Most exhibitions on this week's list are the work of youngish artists, but not the one by Sue Williams, who's been around since the 1980s. It's her first solo show in this city ... More >>

Larry Bell Gets a Restaurant, Larry's, Where the Opening was a Pacific Standard Time Reunion

Tibby RothmanThe man himself, artist Larry Bell (l.) and art critic Peter Frank (r.) at the recent artists' party for Larry's, a new restaurant in Venice​ Almost all you need to know about artist Larry Bell is written on a wall at Larry's, the recently-opened restaurant that bears his name, li ... More >>

Jeffrey Deitch Goes Underground? MOCA Director Supports Launch of Art Publications Public Fiction and Night Papers

Carol ChehMaya D'Aoust, the White Witch of L.A., performs at the launch party for Public Fiction and Night Papers. She acted as an oracle and took questions from the audience.​ I may have to change my mind about Jeffrey Deitch. I wrote some fairly nasty things about him on my blog, following ... More >>

George Herms, Beat Artist, on His New MOCA Show 'Xenophilia'

Sophie DuvernoyGeorge Herms: Xenophilia, 2011​ George Herms: beat legend, assemblage artist, free jazz enthusiast, Mexican marijuana fan. At a sprightly 75, he's still producing vast amounts of work in his Topanga Canyon studio. He's also the focus of a new show that opened last Friday at the ... More >>

Andy Warhol Exhibition (Yeah, That Soup Can One) Opens At MOCA

Andy Warhol Foundation/MOMAYour Soup Can Is Here​ Andy Warhol is a celebrity name that needs no soup can MOCA exhibition introduction, particularly if that red-white-and-Campbell's label is front and center (in this case, July 9 through September 7th). And yet, within those visions of 1960s gr ... More >>

Between the Mundane and the Arcane

Small-time, big-heart local labels reissue classics that never got their chance

Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar

Young, Rebellious and Prematurely Dead

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

Stuck in a Moment: U2 at the Rose Bowl

Safe sex with Bono and the boys

Best Restaurant Bathroom: Wash Up In A Museum At Michael's In Santa Monica

In the spirit of last week's Best Of LA issue, we present the Best Restaurant Bathroom in Los Angeles. Sure there are other cool bathrooms in local eateries (The Bazaar, Gjelina, Sona, Din Tai Fung), but where else can you wash up while gazing at a David Hockney but at Michael's restaurant, just nor ... More >>

Master of the Mix: A Bruce Conner assemblage

Tribute to the artist and filmmaker at UCLA; REDCAT

Seen Behind the Scene: On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark

Brando and other legends immortalized in photographer's new book

Swing Vote: Bud, Wiser

Kevin Costner stars as the world's least interesting man

PolterZeitgeist: Bob Rauschenberg Haunts the Huntington

(In a good way)

Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

(photo by Randall Roberts) Today's a travel day for me, having just experienced the best little festival I've ever attended, the first annual Marfa Film Festival, in Marfa, Texas. The second annual one is already on my calendar for next year (and in the interim I'll be trying to convince my bosses ... More >>

Movin' On Up

Our city gets vertical with a crop of new high-rise condos

Vodka, Vampires & Vikings

What's to do in Los Angeles this week

Blue Velvet: Last Tango in Lumberton

Originally published September 12, 1986

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Of Mice and Gorillaz

Panoramic producer Danger Mouse orchestrated some of 2005’s most memorable moments. He’s just warming up

Pumping Sunshine

Aaron Rose’s infinite quest

Seven Degrees of Wally Berman

The culture of Semina

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Small Press Is Beautiful

Herms the Messenger

Hopps down the rabbit hole

In the Heart of the Universe

Jay Babcock talks with visionary comics author Alexandro Jodorowsky

Pettibon in the Sky

Experiencing Disney Hall

Hooray for Hellmouths

Warhol Around Town

Oral Histories

Guerrilla Public Service: The Man Who Would Be Caltrans

Redux Deluxe

The Apocalypse Now DVD that might have been

In Character

The mayor of Joshua Tree

Hot Movies, Cool Scene

The eighth annual South by Southwest film festival

Hollywood Requiem

John Gilmore asks the musical question: Can a serial killer find happiness in L.A.?

The Bruce Conner Story

Not a retrospective

The Last Picture Shows

Film’s heroic age at the American Cinematheque

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies

The Trip

Wise Blood