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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Dream Drawings to a King Kong Mash-Up

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artist Jim Shaw pops up in two places, a TV phenomenon loosely inspires an exhibition and a playwright known for breaking the fourth wall breaks it before finishing his new play. 5. Be ... More >>

Ray Bradbury-Themed Art Exhibit Opens in a Gallery Located Where the Sci-Fi Master Once Lived

Ray Bradbury, the fantasy-fiction mastermind who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and really did believe man would make it to Mars sooner than later, moved to L.A. from Illinois in 1934 as a teenager. His family first lived around Western Avenue. Then, in 1942, they moved into a Craftsman bungalow at 670 South ... More >>

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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including 'Anti-Rock' Band Destroy All Monsters and Charles Garabedian's Pseudo-Biblical Painting

With the exception of a panel of artists talking economics, this week's recommendations are all old-school, exhibitions and performances of artists working before Watergate. 5. Highbrow Comedy Guy de Cointet is one of those stuff-of-myth artists: He grew up in Paris, was friendly with Yves St. Laur ... More >>

Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Take Over the City. What Did L.A. Think?

If art in L.A. is important to you, then this past weekend was a doozy. The proliferation of gallery and museum exhibitions associated with the mammoth Pacific Standard Time project, which opened to great fanfare between Thursday and Monday nights, would have been more than enough to overstimulate e ... More >>

Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin'

Apocalypse Now and Then

“Pompeii and the Roman Villa” at LACMA; Steve Canaday at Parker Jones

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

Agree to dis

Juxtapalooza

The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

Glenn Bray

Visionary quester

Sisters of the Stretched Canvas

Jancar Gallery's stable of painters' painters

Art Utopia

Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber have it made — and so do their assistants

Some Paintings

The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial

Personal Choices

15 L.A. artists in “Eden’s Edge”

Hey, Ladies!

The girls go wild west at Bergamot

This Is Not an Art Review

Magritte and his reach

Glossolalia for Dummies

MOCA’s “Painting in Tongues”

Click Five and other picks for Thursday, Feb 2

Art Pick: Abo Ovo, Tue., Feb. 7

Peter Voulkos - Wed., Feb. 8

Night Vision

Jim Shaw's "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

Shawmix

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

Spirits Rock Among Us

A studio visit with Marnie Weber

Premature Exhibitionism

Pictures from a Gone World

Night Vision

Jim Shaw’s "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

But Is It Art?

Abu Ghraib, The WB’s Superstar USA, Black Panthers

The Thin White Line

Cracked Abstraction

The geometrical designs of Alfred Jensen, the "O-ist" discoveries of Jim Shaw

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

The Political Canvas

Daniel Martinez, God Bless Americana Part 2, the Barricades of the Federal District

Serious Racket

The intersection of art and decibels

Cavepainting

Hey, it’s their title, not ours

The Noise of Art

Audio visuals

Objects of Desire

Truth seeking in Laguna

Booster Shots

Then and now

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, 1932 - 2001

Death-Stalking, Sleep-Walking, Barbarian Ninja Terminators

Hand-painted movie posters from Ghana at the Fowler. Plus, Ivan Morley at Patrick Painter

Ten Shows That Rocked My World

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

Crazy Summer

The Prinzhorn Collection: The original Outsider Art. Plus, Robert Overby’s castings, James Gobel’s bears and much more

Letters

Art Attack

Big books for big eyes

Flower Power Games

The delirious rise and acrimonious dissolution of the Eastside Ladies Garden Auxiliary

Show and Tell

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

Critical Mass

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