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Art, lies and hashtags

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cough Syrup Spraying to a Justin Bieber Song

This week, footage about a high-energy collaboration between artists, architects and Pepsi plays at the MAK Center, one artist leads people on a hunt for truth and other intangibles at the Getty and another turns cough syrup into something of a tribute. 5. Art, lies and hashtags A green vinyl sign ... More >>

5 Awesome Free Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Fans of a good laugh, Tom Sizemore and the realm of the fantastic need not break their wallets this week. Check out these free offerings that make even the dullest weekday interesting, f ... More >>

6 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dancing Down the Side of a Building at UCLA

This week's dance events include a site specific performance on the Red Line and several events considering Trisha Brown's 50-year career. 6. Dance on the roof A month-long celebration of New York choreographer Trisha Brown crests this weekend with two different performances at UCLA's Royce Hall ... More >>

Bouncing Off the Walls

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Renaissance Painting With RoboCop

This week, the ghost of a long-defunct society hosts a concert in Culver City, a video artist channels allergy-drug commercials and a sculptor pumps water through a maze of PVC pipes. 5. Renaissance meets RoboCop Peter Weller starred in the 1987 film RoboCop, about a robotic police officer ("part ... More >>

Everybody Love Florence

Endeavour Delay For Los Angeles Flyover Means Hour Later Showtime

The Endeavour show over the skies of Los Angeles will be delayed by more than an hour this morning. The Los Angeles Police Department says that instead of the original 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. window, with an 11 landing time at LAX, the space shuttle will get a piggy back ride above Los Angeles more than ... More >>

The World's Greatest Doodlers

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

Are Two Flies Better Than One?

Dine à la Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center A Waldorf Salad Recipe

Banners for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time (P.S.T.) initiative appear to be on every light pole citywide. There are 60 exhibitions covering every aspect of Los Angeles' postwar art scene from 1945 to 1980 at art museums and galleries across Southern California. That post-war fixation extends to ... More >>

The Brothers of Gardenly Delight

For Those About to Squeek/Clack/Blurt

Cuba at the Getty! Cuba at Track 16! Cuba at Kopeikin! What's With All These Cuba Exhibits?

Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Virginia Beahan, American, born 1946. Post-Revolutionary "Hombre Nuevo" (New Man), Las Tunas, 2004 Chromogenic print Sheet: 86.4 x 104.1 cm (34 x 41 in.) Wilson Centre for Photography​ The Getty Center, Track 16, and Kopeikin Gallery are all presenting conc ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Take the Cutoff

Dance + Film = Love

SCREWING AROUND

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

BRING ME THE HEAD OF HARRY POTTER!

Where's Antonio? Lunching at the Getty, Talking Immigration at a Private Club

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was light on public events this week, which may be a good thing if he was rolling up the sleeves and working instead.Villaraigosa hangs at swanky City Club at Wells Fargo Center.​Then again, maybe not -- read more about the recent fruits of his labor in an L. ... More >>

Rock Picks: GZA, the Ettes, A.A. Bondy, Mose Allison

Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others

Music Picks: Sky Saxon Tribute, Daddy Kev, Grace Jones, The Mekons

Also, Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor, Ida Maria, Themselves and others.

They're Heeerrre! Wildfires Strike Angeles National Forest

[Tuesday Update: City News Service reports this morning that the Osito Fire, near Pyramid Lake, is 65 percent contained and only burned 280 acres of brush, less than originally feared.]Four days after the National Forest Service raised its fire-danger alert status to Very High, a wildfire has broken ... More >>

Have Yourself a Medieval Little Christmas

Spend "Belles Heures" with Ciaramella at the Getty

Nudity And Smoke - Lots of Smoke! - at the Getty

Going on a hunt for nudity seems a bit of a risque stretch for Watson Adventures, the company who organize recreational scavenger hunts at museums and other public institutions, normally of the much more straight-laced "murder mystery" variety. And truth be told, the hunt for "Naked at the Getty" o ... More >>

Rock Picks: Watson Twins, Les Claypool, Autechre

Plus other April 3-10 shows

The Getty's Video Blockbuster

"California Video" gets all contemporary on us

Brick's Picks: Blues Cruise

From the South Bay to the West Valley, jazz abounds

Hark! the Herald Pipers Play

USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia makes a joyful noise

Rock Picks: Jimmy Scott, the Raspberries, Sharon Jones, Wreckless Eric

For the week of November 30 - December 6

Life in the Last Lane

From Zero to 80 in 24 hours

The Thrill of the Hunt

The scavengers out there

Rock Picks

April 12 – 19

Ascots and Madness

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Black and White (and Color) All Over

Venue Directory

Reckless Behavior

Corrected Legacies

The Getty Villa, the Reagan Library

Spatial Non-Delivery

Iberian Airs

10 Good Shows

12 Art Moments

Horizons

Photography (mostly) at MOCA and the Getty

Museum Pieces

Style and Substance

Multimedia, 1500 Style

Mounds

Monumental edibles at the Getty Contemporary

World Festival of Sacred Music — The Americas

Stop Motion

Dancers on camera