Ed Moses

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 >>

Michael McCarty Updates Michael's Restaurant: Bar Food Drinking With Dennis Hopper

Maybe it's because so many things in this town seem impermanent that our fondness for those that do not increases, exponentially, with each year they remain. Michael McCarty's Santa Monica restaurant Michael's, which he opened in 1979 -- yeah, yeah, that's ancient for us -- is one of those places th ... More >>

Q & A with Andre Guerrero: Food Neighborhoods, Closet Pastry Chefs Ramen Dreams

Andre Guerrero can't imagine living anywhere other than Los Angeles. Save for his earliest years in the Philippines and a couple spent in San Francisco when his family initially moved to the United States, Guerrero has essentially been a lifelong L.A. resident. Over the course of a 30-plus-year ca ... More >>

Ed Moses On New Work The Poet and the Jabberwocky, Painting in Four Dimensions, Alice in Wonderland and Marilyn Monroe's Butt

David Hume KennerlyEd Moses​ Ed Moses is sitting in the middle of Montana Avenue's latest home-furnishings boutique, Living by Lynne Leventen, a menagerie of candles, chandeliers and wall art. He's observing his recently installed painting, which he calls The Poet and the Jabberwocky.The " ... More >>

'The Lords & The New Creatures' at Nye Brown: How Jim Morrison's Poetry Book Inspired an L.A. Art Show About Cars

"Modern life is a journey by car." This sentence could have been written yesterday, but it actually appeared in The Lords and the New Creatures, Jim Morrison's first book of published poetry in 1971. Forty years later, little has changed: The car is still king in Los Angeles. Now, a group show t ... More >>

Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Take Over the City. What Did L.A. Think?

If art in L.A. is important to you, then this past weekend was a doozy. The proliferation of gallery and museum exhibitions associated with the mammoth Pacific Standard Time project, which opened to great fanfare between Thursday and Monday nights, would have been more than enough to overstimulate e ... 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 >>

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 >>

Ed Moses: I'm Not Creative. Really

Chris Burden: Dead Man and a Hot Dog Stand

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

"Ed Ruscha: On the Road" at Hammer Museum

Does a legend have to keep things fresh?

Ed Moses: Hanging at Hal's

Rachel Rosenthal: 83 and Still Swearing

... rats and all

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR RACHEL

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Art Around Town

Hans Burkhardt and Marco Brambilla, plus Patricia Faure RIP

Patricia Faure: 1928 - 2008

By Christopher Miles Image source: www.patriciafauregallery.com Gallerist Patricia Faure, a mainstay of the Los Angeles gallery scene for decades, died in her sleep on October 21 at the age of 80. Faure began as art dealer Nicholas Wilder’s assistant in the 1970s. For fifteen years, she and fri ... More >>

Some Paintings

The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial

Drawings, Doings

“Drawings” at Frank Lloyd Gallery and “Irrational Exhibits 5,” at Track 16

A Lot of Local Abstraction

Standouts in Santa Monica

L.A. à la Pompidou

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

Tofu, Smut and “dunt dunnnt, dunt dunnt”

Frankenkultur

The Ace is Wild

The Doug Chrismas story

The Small Plate

How the little things make a meal

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

Godawfulism

And other fabulous new L.A. painting trends

Buddha! Buddha! Buddha!

Laurie Anderson, Tibetan sand painters and the Black Dragon Society