John Baldessari

Why David Lloyd Walked Away From the L.A. Art World

In the late 1980s, the abstract painter David Lloyd found himself where others wanted to be. Margo Leavin, who showed John Baldessari, Donald Judd and Alexis Smith, was his art dealer. In the art world -- or, to be more specific, the business of art -- to land a respected gallery is essential to b ... More >>

How Laura Owens' New Boyle Heights Exhibit Moves Painting Forward

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

Margo Leavin Gallery, Closing After 42 Years: How It Became One of L.A.'s Best

Tuesday, Margo Leavin Gallery announced it will close after forty-two years. The news comes as a surprise. L.A. galleries close, move or rebrand themselves all the time, but not Margo Leavin. Hers has been a quiet, constant presence at 812 Robertson Boulevard for so long it seemed it would continue ... More >>

MOCA Crisis: What Do Younger Artists and Curators Think?

See also: *Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the MOCA Gala *Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble *Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA *Street Art at MOCA The crisis at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, which exploded with the ouster of longtime chief curator Paul Sch ... More >>

Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round

Ice Cube in the Pacific Standard Time promotional video about the Eameses​ Today was a good day for Ice Cube -- he kicked it in the Eames House. In a promotional video for Pacific Standard Time released yesterday, Cube discusses the work of husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, an ... More >>

Joan Didion's Blue Nights: Why She's the Quintessential Writer for Pacific Standard Time

Gary Leonard​What makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. True, in her forty years of reportage, fiction, and most recently in memoirs, she has examined many of them. Whether she's w ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Frequently Asked Questions From Irritable Skeptics

This thing Pacific Standard Time, which starts on Saturday, can be quite overwhelming, no doubt causing many people not in the know to tune out, question the whole thing or stomp off in anger. Therefore, to help stave off confusion, annoyance and bloodlust, we have created a list of PST-related fr ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Celebrating the Freaks and Weirdos of L.A. Art

"Ed Ruscha: On the Road" at Hammer Museum

Does a legend have to keep things fresh?

Lynda Benglis at MOCA: Conceptual Art Meets Dildoes (NSFW)

Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, © Lynda Benglis, DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009Lynda Benglis, Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970, Life Magazine​ In 1974, Lynda Benglis ran an advertisement in Artforum that caused five editors to protest and pack up: she photographed herself n ... More >>

'Chain Letter' at Shoshana Wayne Gallery: Artmaggeddon and the Art of Yes

Carol ChehArtists waiting in line to install their work at Shoshana Wayne Gallery​ Talk of "Chain Letter" started bubbling through the art community about a month ago, after curators Christian Cummings and (former LA Weekly critic) Doug Harvey sent out the first two email invitations asking 10 ... More >>

LACE's 'Unfinished Paintings' Show Asks the Question: What Makes a Painting Unfinished?

Carol ChehL to R: Unfinished paintings by Kenny Scharf, Kristin Calabrese, Laurie Nye and Linda Stark​ In a contemporary art scene that's come to be dominated by interactive social practices and the ephemerality of performance and site-specific installation, it's become fashionable in certain ... More >>

Human Nature at LACMA

Movies Gone Bad

Pat O'Neill's shattered, kaleidoscopic storytelling — and beyond

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Annenberg's Showcase for Pictures of the Year International

Photojournalism at Its Best

Richard Prince, Wallace Berman and Their Women

Prince and the Beat-Popper

Michelle Obama's Night Out in L.A.: Malia and Sasha Meet the Jonas Brothers

Dream come true for Malia, and indirect reference to Sarah Palin from Michelle, who says her husband is "not afraid of smart people."

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

TV party tonight

The Branding of Allan Kaprow: Anti-Warhol, Anti-Star

"This is really happening"

Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

Playing with the camera

Cracked Egg: BCAM's Inaugural Show

Hello ... Wrong

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Corpsefucker Makes Good

Up the hill backwards with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy

The Encyclopedic City

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

L.A. à la Pompidou

Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood

WeHo Voices

Moving Pictures

The layered images of Pat O’Neill, L.A. icon

The Many Colors of Pae White

Multidimensional artist brings her barrage to the Hammer

Letters

Art As Its Own Reward

New Image changes address but retains its attitude

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

The Ghosts of Dogtown

A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules

About Time

Bitchen video art at the Hammer

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

Trippy Guru & Tipper, Too

William Wiley and Mrs. Gore, plus a Dutch, Hawkinsonian pop-conceptualist

Mounds

Monumental edibles at the Getty Contemporary

SLUSH

Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

Fop Art

Damien Hirst and the ybas

Blue Chips

Joni Mitchell, Martin Mull, Herb Alpert