Judy Chicago

Is Our Discussion of L.A. Architecture Too Focused on Cars?

Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview

See also: *Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry & the L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything *Schindler House's Exhibit About How We Travel *Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot Neutra, Gehry, Schindler, Eames -- they're all included in the Getty Institute's initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Arc ... More >>

A Guide to L.A.'s Jewish Street Art

Most Angelenos wouldn't associate Jews with spray paint and wheat-paste, but what about murals? Twenty years ago, before the city began a war on street art and pushed murals and graffiti underground, targeting artists with lawsuits and jail time, the city's diverse communities embraced a flourishing ... More >>

10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

Incognito at Santa Monica Museum Hides Which Artists Did Which Paintings. But a Few People Can Tell...

In Incognito, a 1997 romance that posed as a thriller, the Jason Patric who once ran off with Julia Roberts stars as an art forger. The forger naturally has to be "incognito" because he's a wanted man (he's forged a Rembrandt, which is never a good idea). He discovers he's been dating an "incognito" ... More >>

"Deflowered": Judy Chicago

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Penis Costume Film

Our list this week includes not just a video with someone dressed in a penis costume but also Ellsworth Kelly, a hidden Koreatown gallery and the ubiquitous Judy Chicago. 5. Making money sing CamLab, the two-person troupe Anna Mayer and Jemima Wyman, wants art to be social, spontaneous and sensual, ... More >>

Art Fairs: Why Do They Make People Uncomfortable?

"We have this enormous audience of almost 11,000," said Tim Fleming, director of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC), held at Barker Hangar and one of three art fairs in L.A. this past weekend. "And we can do anything with them, within reason." This year, at the Thursday night opening of his fair, ... More >>

A Dry Ice Sculpture That Pokes Fun at Our Obsession with Shopping

Courtesy Judy Chicago. Photo: Donald Woodman.Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications, "Disappearing Environments," 2012.​ Sure, if you arrived at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012 after seven last Thursday night, when the opening party ended, you had to lay down cash for your drinks. But out ... More >>

Pasadena's PST Shows Make Everyday Things Into Art, Like Porn and Furniture

It's high time to brave the Pasadena Freeway, thanks to four landmark Pacific Standard Time shows with ambitious curators, catalogues, and historical reach in Pasadena. Pasadena/San Marino has its PST "focus" weekend this Saturday and Sunday, which means lots of extra events. Michael Duncan's "LA R ... More >>

America's most-watched performance art

Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

Hastings Plastics: Legendary Maker of Sculptures for L.A. Artists Closes After 55 Years

Top 10 Moments of the Year in L.A. Art

Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. ​ Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo performance abou ... More >>

Mary Anna Pomonis' 'In Brio' at Annie Wharton L.A. Shows How Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend

A few years ago, artist Mary Anna Pomonis went through a painful divorce. She found that when she took off her diamond wedding ring for good, it was also as though she were shedding a large part of her social status as a woman. She felt empty and powerless without the rock on her hand, and she even ... More >>

Judy Chicago's Upcoming Disappearing Environments: How Do You Make Art Out of Gigantic Pyramids of Dry Ice?

Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol and Eric Orr's Disappearing Environments in 1968​When Judy Chicago staged Disappearing Environments in a brand new Century City shopping mall in 1968, she was a young California minimalist, using color and space as weapons to prod an otherwise exuberant consumer cult ... More >>

'The Lords & The New Creatures' at Nye Brown: How Jim Morrison's Poetry Book Inspired an L.A. Art Show About Cars

"Modern life is a journey by car." This sentence could have been written yesterday, but it actually appeared in The Lords and the New Creatures, Jim Morrison's first book of published poetry in 1971. Forty years later, little has changed: The car is still king in Los Angeles. Now, a group show t ... More >>

Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Arrive This Weekend, But Can They Piggyback On Pacific Standard Time Successfully?

By now, you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about Pacific Standard Time, the Getty-funded arts extravaganza that kicks off this weekend. The year-long, $10 million initiative involves more than 60 cultural institutions and 70 commercials galleries focuses on postwar art in Los Ang ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time Fall Art Preview Celebrates L.A., a Great and Shitty Place to be an Artist

Institute for Arts & Media, California State University, NorthridgeRoland Charles' Portrait with Veil (1978) from the PST exhibit at California State University Northridge​ Our awesome fall art preview issue, which landed on newsstands this week, delves into Pacific Standard Time, this ridicu ... More >>

Judy Chicago: What I Learned From Male Chauvinists

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

Peter Voulkos, Can I Have Your Autograph?

Superheroes of L.A. art and the young artists who idolize them

Best Chicago in Pomona

FRIDA PEOPLE

"We're Not Sexual Blobs!"

Pocahaunted's Amanda Brown on their "body music," loving leather, and getting funky with the French

Steve Lopez Sends a Message to Car-Insurance and Billboard Giants

Consumer Watchdog.org​In his L.A. Times column today, Steve Lopez rails against Mercury Insurance and billboard giant CBS Outdoor. The two companies have been in the news lately because the insurance company pressured CBS into taking down an anti-Mercury ad paid for by Consumer Watchdog. On August ... More >>

Disliking the dinner Party

Or, how I became an art critic

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Art Utopia

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

Three at 18th Street

Upside Yo Head

All the ladies in the house say “hegemony”

Next to Nothing

Less is more, more or less

Say It With Flowers

Pattern & Decoration, Pattern & Decoration, Pattern & Decoration

Can L.A. Get Beyond Cool?

Curator/critic Michael Duncan thinks so, and he’s got a show to prove it

Art and Craft

Judy Chicago’s stitches, Francesca Gabbiani’s and Arturo Herrera’s cuttings

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two