Jackson Pollock

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>

Paul Schimmel's Last Show as MOCA's Chief Curator Features Artists Who Destroy Their Canvases

Five L.A. Internet Artists You Need to Know

Shopping with Future Art Majors: The Spoon as Paint Stirrer

Sur la Tablespoon as paint stick​ Shopping for cooking gear can be breathtakingly expensive. Copper pots! French sauté pans! Espresso machines! But sometimes it can be pleasantly cheap, especially if you like to hang out at hardware stores and garage sales and thrift shops. Sometimes even the ... More >>

Feds Arrest Matthew Taylor for Selling Forged Paintings of Monet, van Gogh and Rothko

​Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Theses are some of the greatest artists in history and have produced some of the world's most expensive paintings. And according to the FBI, 43-year-old Matthew Taylor has forged them all and taken millions from unsuspecting art ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

Stage Raw: LA Weekly Fringe Award Winner

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>

Sake Rice: The Other California Export Momokawa Revamps Its Look And Taste

jgarbeeStill Life With Sake​Amidst recent talk of struggling Japanese sake makers (You are buying more imported sake, yes?), there is also some sake made closer to home worth noting: Sake made with California-grown rice. According to the California Rice Commission (CRC), California is the na ... More >>

Habanero (or Scotch Bonnet) Heaven at Flavors of Belize

Food Marathon​The hot sauce didn't make it to the table until a third of our whole fried snapper had been stripped down to its bones. Attracted by a laudatory L.A. Times article, we were dining at Flavors of Belize, a retooled cafe wedged into the Relax Inn on La Brea near San Vicente. One of ... More >>

Last Night: Dinner with Grant Achatz, Dessert

After eight surreal courses and their equally inventive cocktails, I wasn't sure how, or even if, chef Grant Achatz could top himself with dessert. It turns out the dessert was his pièce de résistance, the most elaborate and interactive dish of the evening -- and the most fun since we got to wat ... More >>

Burri My Art in the Hollywood Hills

"Combustione: Alberto Burri and America" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Enhancing the Vibe at Venice Grind

Ben CalderwoodPleasure cruising at Venice Grind​ Everything is in its right place at Mar Vista's most adequately hip coffee joint, where the beans and teas are organic, there is fresh fruit for those who abstain from refined sugar and the corkboard near the entrance is festooned with notices f ... More >>

Henry Adams

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Lusty for Life

IS JUNIOR FLIPPING ME OFF, OR DOES THAT HAND GESTURE MEAN "PEACE"?

UCLA Students Caught Sleeping; Bear Violated

KTLA​UCLA often spins itself as the smarter, higher-GPA-having school in town, but by the looks of its Bruin bear sculpture, you'd have to chalk one up for the wit and fortitude of USC: Despite an annual student "security force" that's supposed to protect the bear and despite a tarp covering t ... More >>

MOCA Is Back With A Little Help ($60 Million Worth) From Its Friends

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday celebrates its survival after nearly going under (and temporarily closing its Geffen Contemporary branch) with a 30-year retrospective exhibition.MOCADoug Wheeler, 'RM 669.'​Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years happens through May 3 and features 6,000 pieces o ... More >>

Heath Bars, Lapin and Mash

Fusion Cuisine in Pasadena

Salad Days: The Mathematics of a Good Vinaigrette

Given the triple-digit temperatures wilting much of Los Angeles and vicinity at the moment, the best thing to make for dinner is a dish that requires little time and less cooking. Preferably none. A salad, perhaps: either a riot of greens tossed into a bowl or an artful composition of ingredients. W ... More >>

Tomory Dodge at Acme.

Marla vs. Pollock: Who’s the Fraudiest?

The art of the con of the art

¡Ask a Mexican! Dark Matters

"Saddam Hussein looked like my freakin’ uncle with the ostrich boots, and I can easily pass for the Iranian president. All I need is a khaki Members Only jacket."

The Other Coast

West meets East in “The Modern West”

24/Six

Our Jack of all terrorist trades returns

Reverb and Renown

Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico in Santa Monica

Bildungsromanesque

David Mitchell’s novel of an ’80s adolescence

Soul on Ice

In John Haskell’s heady, hypnotic fiction, amnesia is a form of metaphysics

Joiners in Believing

Prog rock is back, and it’s coming for your hipster children

A Rheum of One’s Own

The creaky displeasures of Mona Lisa Smile and Calendar Girls

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Stan Brakhage, 1933 — 2003

Boozers and Schmoozers

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

Cavepainting

Hey, it’s their title, not ours

Body Heat

Donald Byrd’s Shack, Stephanie Gilliland’s TONGUE, and more

Lights, Canvas, Action!

Ed Harris’ Pollock

k.d. lang’s California Dream

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks

Art Galleries

Fop Art

Damien Hirst and the ybas

The New York Century

It's no sensation

Words and Pictures

Frank O'Hara, as variously as possible

X-Small

30 years of little art in Laguna

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Return of the Native

David Robertson's excellent new-music adventure

Black Velvet Goldmine

The cultural legacy of Edgar Leeteg

Neckties, 9 to 5 and Cocktail Parties

The New York School of Poets

Study for a Portrait of a Studio Memo

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect

The Low Life