James Turrell

When Art Meets Therapy

MOCA's Controversial L.A. Architecture Exhibit Is Sprawling, Confusing and Beautiful

Sometimes architects are compared to artists. But often the closest counterpart to what an architect does is not that of an artist, but a screenwriter. A friend of mine, a sculptor, once pointed out that filmmaking is "art by committee." And so, can be, architecture. The client, like the director o ... More >>

James Turrell's Mind-Bending, One-Person Light Show Is the Hottest Ticket in L.A.

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *How James Turrell's Skyspaces Became a Hot Item for L.A. Art Collectors Renowned L.A. artist James Turrell's new retrospective at LACMA is "one of the most ambitious modern art exhibitions ever mounted in Los Angeles," said the museum's director, M ... More >>

How James Turrell's Skyspaces Became a Hot Item for L.A. Art Collectors

Refik Anadol Does Fascinating Things With Art and Technology — Like His Plan to Project Video Onto Disney Hall

Mind games

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life screens in West Adams and a light show plays out in a corner in Culver City. 5. Mind games When artist J ... More >>

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Light and space mash-up

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Murdered Paintings

Shunk-Kender, © Lichtenstein FoundationNiki de Saint Phalle shooting with a .22 rifle in the Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1961. ​ Everything on this week's list is either radical or rebellious, or hopelessly nostalgic about being radical and rebellious. 5. Revolutionizing the Sunset Strip The or ... More >>

Ink.: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Six Pacific Standard Time Artworks Worth Seeing

Pacific Standard Time, L.A.'s 60-museum retrospective on L.A. art 1945-1980, is mostly packaged in box sets, each museum or gallery exhibition the visual equivalent of a multi-part, themed concept album. But despite all the carefully cultivated curatorial choices, as you move from show to show, it' ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Natural History: Anthony Lepore and Mark Hagen

Andrew Rogers, Land Artist: Now Playing on a Continent Near You

Andrew Rogers: Ancient Language, Atacama Desert 80m x 3m​ Australian artist Andrew Rogers has spent the last 13 years bouncing between 13 countries on all seven continents, working with over 6,700 people in all, creating sculptures in deserts, glaciers, gorges, city centers, national parks an ... More >>

Liz Larner and Catherine Opie at Regen Projects

Peter Lodato at William Turner Gallery

Light and (Social) Space

Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Finish Fetish

Crucifixions and Californians

Flight Patterns

A local architect takes recycling to new heights

Claire Falkenstein, James Turrell

Reclaiming the Air

Ah, the memories of sweet orange blossoms in downtown L.A.

Letters

The Ace is Wild

The Doug Chrismas story

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

The New York Century

It's no sensation

Art Attack

Big books for big eyes

Cabin Fever

Photographer Richard Barnes shoots the Unabomber's shack

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