Jeff Koons

Balloons like death

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From a Toilet Seat Swing Set to a Granite Gorilla

This week, a gorilla guards an oversized balloon sculpture, LACMA screens work by a pioneer in animation, and the swing set takes on new, psychological dimensions. 5. Power to destroy Sculptor Sterling Ruby's ceramic basins look like miniature wastelands, full of destroyed, melted artifacts and bur ... 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 >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/29 - 11/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You were expecting maybe Jeff Koons and a chocolate fountain? No." Michael McCarty Updates Michael's Restaurant: Bar Food Drinking With Dennis Hopper. "Thanks to C&H, sugar cane will always be associated with a Hawaiian hi ... More >>

Serious Drinking: Stop the Vodka Insanity

It's time to say it: Flavored vodka is a threat to our cultural existence. It's bad enough that vodka branding has devolved into an almost brazen mash-up of borrowed imagery, aspirational memes poached from music (Chopin), art (Van Gogh), clouds (Cirrus), ice (Iceberg), sky (Skyy), geometry, weird ... More >>

Xavier Veilhan Has Been Living in a Historic Neutra House and Putting Sculptures All Over the Place

In some circles in L.A., mid-century architecture is sacred -- never to be modified, altered, or renovated. Richard Neutra's VDL Research House II, overlooking the reservoir in Silver Lake and built by the architect for his own family, is considered iconic here. Now owned by Cal Poly Pomona, the 2,0 ... More >>

Odd Future and Streetwear Employees Resent Fairfax Avenue Tourist Influx

Dodgers Ownership: Top 5 Rich Guys You Wouldn't Want to See Take Over Team (or Maybe You Would)

Thanksgiving is upon us, so it's time to bow our heads and be thankful that at least somebody in the family has a job, medical marijuana is still around (for now) and a bloody presidential election is still nearly a year away. And, after the dreaded Frank McCourt vowed to sell the Dodgers, we shoul ... More >>

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

Yoshitomo Nara, Jeff Koons and Yoko Ono Become 'Party Animals' at Royal/T. Woof!

Keith PlocekYoshitomo Nara's Your Dog​Pulling works from an art collector's private cache and organizing them around a theme is often a tricky affair, where capitalized nouns such as Transgression or Race or Patriarchy wind up applying to just about anything a curator hangs on the wall. Maybe ... More >>

Christian Marclay's The Clock Starts Ticking at LACMA: No Lines Down the Block but 24-Hour Film is, Believe it or Not, a Crowd Pleaser

Christian Marclay, Detail from The Clock, 2010, single channel video, purchased with funds provided by Steve Tisch through 2011 Collectors Committee. The Clock © Christian Marclay, courtesy White Cube Gallery, London, and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York​ When Christian Marclay's The Clock, a ... More >>

'Fame is Love': Mark Kostabi Premieres Con Artist, Waxes About Italian Living and Infamy

Having pushed a bevy of buttons back in the late '80s, earning himself fame, fortune and fans, all of which came at a price, the self-proclaimed 'World's Biggest Con Artist' is back and coming to a theater near you, whether you like it or not. Directed by Michael Sladek, Con Artist reveals an intima ... More >>

Street Art at MOCA

How Jeffrey Deitch convinced an outlaw art movement to show itself for the landmark retrospective “Art in the Streets”

Lindy & Grundy: Now Open Thoughts on Whole Animal Performance Art

A. ScattergoodLindy & Grundy, now open​ Nine months after we originally wrote about them, after a well-publicized cross-country road trip, many butchery demos, profiles in Food & Wine and Bon Appétit and the Los Angeles Times, countless Eater updates, Facebook posts, some 5,200 tweets (from t ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/28-3/4

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The lime-and-salt thing is for beginners." The Cocktail Issue: Border Grill's Sangrita A Recipe. "It looks a bit more like an 18-wheeler crossed with a Che Guevara T-shirt shop." [Updated] Jam ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Fred Eric's Chorizo-poblano Pizette

A. Scattergoodthe chorizo-poblano pizzette at Tiara Cafe​ In our recent 2-part interview with Fred Eric (Tiara Cafe, Fred 62), Eric discussed the restaurant as art installation, the question of Jeff Koons, and the benefits of fasting for food professionals. Well, for him at least. And a surpri ... More >>

Q & A With Fred Eric, Part 2: Chefs Who Fast, The Cost of Tuna Salad The Importance of David Bowie

A. ScattergoodFred Eric at Tiara​ When we left off our conversation with Fred Eric (Fred 62, Tiara Cafe), the chef was discussing his eating habits. Or lack thereof, as Eric was in the middle of a two-week fast when we interviewed him. A fast is one thing if you're an ascetic in the Mojave, qu ... More >>

Obika Mozzarella Bar Opens in Beverly Center

Obika​ Obika Mozzarella Bar, which turns cheese-eating into a religion with its "globes of cheese" floating "like Jeff Koons basketballs," has opened a new church. Like its first location, opened a few months ago in the Century City mall, this one opened last Friday in the Beverly Center.

Nightranger: Pop Smart

Obika: When Not in Rome ...

Bringing the mozzarella bar to L.A.

First Bite: Okiba's Mozzarella Bar, or When Not In Rome

Christie BishopJonagold apple, portions removed​In Rome, Obika is a mozzarella bar on Piazza di Firenze, an oddly modern place not far from the Pantheon that reluctantly serves as a tourist canteen during the day and then as a frosty, rather exclusive wine bar late at night. There has always b ... More >>

Aaron Curry at David Kordansky

L.A. Art Fabricator Known For Jeff Koons Work Goes Under

jeffkoons.com'Balloon Dog.'​Los Angeles area art fabricator Carlson & Co., perhaps best known for its work giving life to some of Jeff Koons' visions, announced it is going out of business, according to Bloomberg News.

Konstantin Bojanov at Otero Plassart

Lusty for Life

Going to Pot: L.A. Weekly’s Journalistic Standards?

Jeff Koons at Gagosian Gallery

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 >>

On the Seamy Side: Larry Pearsall

Developmentally disabled artist's avant-garde graphic narrative

Duking It Out at Patrick Painter With Jim and Peter and Glenn

Agree to dis

Piero Golia

Dreamer, realist

Speed Racer On the Fast Track to Nowhere

Anime on overdrive from the Wachowski brothers

Cracked Egg: BCAM's Inaugural Show

Hello ... Wrong

LACMA + BCAM = A FUTURE

The not-so-little engine that could

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

Feb. 9, 2007

L.A.’s 20 Best Italian Restaurants by Jonathan Gold, Separated at Birth by Steven Leigh Morris and The Bastard Question by Ernest Hardy

This Is Not a Very Large Train Engine Hanging From a Crane at LACMA

Not yet, anyway

L.A. Simonized

Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west

Ask Mr. Gold

The End of Donald Kuspit?

The opening of his "California New Old Masters"

Beyond Smart

The fetish of knowingness

Broad Warriors

’80s Sturm und Drang revisited

Gender, Race

12 Divas, Fresh Cut Afros

How To Ruin Everything

SLUSH

Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

Text Appeal

Barbara Kruger's word-image art

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)

Heilman-C at ''The Warehouse''

Laserian

Hiro Yamagata's art of optics