Ed Ruscha

MOCA to Merge With Pinterest

Beset by financial troubles and a series of staff departures, the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced a surprise move: It will merge with the social networking site Pinterest. Effective today, MOCA is closing its brick and mortar locations, including its Grand Avenue headquarters, Geffen Conte ... More >>

Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview

See also: *Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry & the L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything *Schindler House's Exhibit About How We Travel *Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot Neutra, Gehry, Schindler, Eames -- they're all included in the Getty Institute's initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Arc ... More >>

Why Are Ken Price's Oddball Sculptures at LACMA So Compelling?

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 >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac

Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party graveyard In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven ni ... More >>

Incognito at Santa Monica Museum Hides Which Artists Did Which Paintings. But a Few People Can Tell...

In Incognito, a 1997 romance that posed as a thriller, the Jason Patric who once ran off with Julia Roberts stars as an art forger. The forger naturally has to be "incognito" because he's a wanted man (he's forged a Rembrandt, which is never a good idea). He discovers he's been dating an "incognito" ... More >>

The Satirist

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 >>

Pacific Standard Time Is 'Overcompensation' for L.A.'s Cultural Inferiority Complex, Says New York Times

From Ed Ruscha's "Standard Editions."​Dude. New York can't stand to see us happy! Here we were, totally lit on our 1960s selves, museum-hopping in our California sundresses whilst trying to forget the "hopping" part took 30 minutes in traffic, and the East Coast's Times of record has to jump i ... 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 Arrive This Weekend, But Can They Piggyback On Pacific Standard Time Successfully?

By now, you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about Pacific Standard Time, the Getty-funded arts extravaganza that kicks off this weekend. The year-long, $10 million initiative involves more than 60 cultural institutions and 70 commercials galleries focuses on postwar art in Los Ang ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Frequently Asked Questions From Irritable Skeptics

This thing Pacific Standard Time, which starts on Saturday, can be quite overwhelming, no doubt causing many people not in the know to tune out, question the whole thing or stomp off in anger. Therefore, to help stave off confusion, annoyance and bloodlust, we have created a list of PST-related fr ... 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 >>

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

An alternative history of comedy in L.A. art

Eli Broad: Blame My Wife

Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

Eve Babitz at the Hammer Museum: Former L.A. Wild Child's Top 5 Memories of the 1960s Art Scene

Courtesy of Julian Wasser and Craig Krull GalleryJulian Wasser's famous picture of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz​ Last Wednesday night, two gossips met at the Hammer Museum to do what they do best. But this time, they were on stage, in front of an audience of over a hundred peop ... More >>

Sony Studios to Fulfill Culver City's 'Art in Public Places' Requirement With Nine-Story Statue of Rainbow

Culver City TimesArt!​Culver City, currently getting the life kicked back into it by an influx of artists too poor to live in Venice (even pop-art legend Ed Ruscha recently made the move), and long known for its modern/gray/industrial architectural brilliance, will be taking on an uncharacteri ... More >>

Jesus Hates Skater Kids: 'Lincoln Ramp' Half Pipe in Venice Torn Down by Fun-Killers at United Methodist Church

Juice MagazineThe Lincoln Ramp in better days​Updated after the jump: Photos of the Lincoln Ramp being dismantled, set to be U-Hauled -- in sad little strips -- to various parts of the Valley. Plus, the reverend's defense. The riff-raff who frequent the Lincoln Ramp in east Venice Beach are f ... More >>

Deitch’s New Project

MOCA’s big gamble

Michelle Obama's Night Out in L.A.: Malia and Sasha Meet the Jonas Brothers

Dream come true for Malia, and indirect reference to Sarah Palin from Michelle, who says her husband is "not afraid of smart people."

Freaky Friday

Party at Houdini's; Henry Rollins on Target; All Girl at the Echo

Artifact and Fiction

Ron Griffin, Ernest Silva at Bergamot galleries

The Big Picture

Patrick Ecclesine shoots like a boy

Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

Our critics’ guide to the very best of LAFF

Must See Art

“Last Resort” by Mark Mann at Taylor De Cordoba and auction time

Movin' On Up

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

This Is Not an Art Review

Magritte and his reach

Vodka, Vampires & Vikings

What's to do in Los Angeles this week

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Smeared

Tofu, Smut and “dunt dunnnt, dunt dunnt”

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain

The legacy of the Los Altos

The Coffee Table

Dames, dice and dope: holiday gift books revisited

Laugh Factory

Edited by Kateri Butler

Godawfulism II

It ain’t what you paint (it’s the way that you paint it)

The Endless Summer Show

Surf's up, down, all over Laguna

ASK Won’t Tell

Turmoil and uncertainty rock an L.A. art mainstay

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

Style and Substance

Art Galleries

Mounds

Monumental edibles at the Getty Contemporary

The Good Stuff

Doug Harvey's Top 10

The New York Century

It's no sensation

Fresh Paint

Nancy Evans and Yek at POST, Steve Hurd at Dan Bernier

Fresh Paint

Nancy Evans and Yek at POST, Steve Hurd at Dan Bernier

Critical Mass

From Johanna Went to Madame Tussaud: 20 years of arts coverage

Time Space Energy

Rosanna Gamson's Grand Hope Flower; plus, Donald Byrd, Heidi Duckler