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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Stacked Plates at LACMA

    "I try to stay with themes or objects or sources I can trace back to my personal history," artist Robert Therrien once said. "The further back I can trace something as being meaningful to me in some way or another ... the more I am attracted to it." Little wonder, then, that plates, pots and pans ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Levitated Mass Expected to Draw Party People, Crowds to L.A. County Museum Tonight

    So you thought the party was at Drai's or maybe Los Globos tonight. Noooo. The rager of the century is happening right in the streets of the Miracle Mile. Levitated Mass, that rock of ages that's headed to the L.A. County Museum of Art, is scheduld to reach its destination in the wee hours. And LAC ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Ray's and Stark Bar Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary

    We use certain events to mark the passage of time. Birthdays. Graduations. Job promotions. Then there are restaurant openings. For some, they're just as meaningful as the time we blew out 16 candles, or tossed a tasseled cap into the air. Especially in our city, where food trends have changed as fas ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Ray's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    We use certain events to mark the passage of time. Birthdays. Graduations. Job promotions. Then there are restaurant openings. For some, they're just as meaningful as the time we blew out 16 candles, or tossed a tasseled cap into the air. Especially in our city, where food trends have changed as fas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    LACMA's 'Living In a Modern Way' Evokes Star Trek and Other Revelations of 'Insane' Free Museum Day

    Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Tim Burton

    Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Tart for Tart's Sake

    Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/25-4/29

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minima ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 28, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minima ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    First Bite: Dining Artfully at Ray's

    F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minimalist rectangle that abuts the soaring Ahmanson gallery like a glass s ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 17, 2011

    More Than Mere Doughnuts

    Try a malasada when you're in the mood for a fried dough treat

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: Mmmmm, Doughnuts!

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: I have a craving for a doughnut. I've had good doughnuts in Los Angeles, but is there a truly great doughnut? I hate that I can't hate on NYC doughnuts, but I had the tres leches donut at Doughnut Plant, and that was dddd-licious! I ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 16, 2010

    Fruit, Foregrounded

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: I have a craving for a doughnut. I've had good doughnuts in Los Angeles, but is there a truly great doughnut? I hate that I can't hate on NYC doughnuts, but I had the tres leches donut at Doughnut Plant, and that was dddd-licious! I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Let Them Eat LACMA

    Incase/Flickr"Old Fashioned" ​ "Let them eat cake," Marie-Thérese, wife of Louis XIV, supposedly once said when she was informed that French peasants were without bread. Initially referenced in Rousseau's Confessions, the cruel suggestion that starving people who couldn't afford bread might ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2010

    ELVIN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

    Incase/Flickr"Old Fashioned" ​ "Let them eat cake," Marie-Thérese, wife of Louis XIV, supposedly once said when she was informed that French peasants were without bread. Initially referenced in Rousseau's Confessions, the cruel suggestion that starving people who couldn't afford bread might ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Intel Founder And Computer Pioneer Max Palevsky Dies In Beverly Hills

    University of ChicagoMax Palevsky, right.​Computer pioneer Max Palevsky logged off for good this week at the age of 85, with his assistant telling the New York Times he died of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home. The founder of chip-maker Intel was a major political backer of former Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    LACMA Selling Select Works Even As It Buys Others

    ​Even as it has been buying works of art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been selling paintings from its permanent collection as it wraps up a series of moves museum director Michael Govan describes as a clarifying process. The New York Times on Thursday reported that a number of LA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Machine Project's LACMA Takeover: From Bizarre Idea, To Reality, To Book

    ​Hey, remember when Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art? And they had that glowing unicorn under the Japanese Pavilion? And Holly Vesecky made that replica of Sam Francis's painting, but all out of flowers? And there were weird people playing brass instruments in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    LACMA Sets Up Film Club

    As part of the L.A. County Museum of Art's efforts to channel community concern over its financially threatened film program into needed hard cash, the museum has set up a membership organization called the CineClub. According to a statement issued today, Angelenos who add an extra $50 to any level ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 28, 2009

    CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

    As part of the L.A. County Museum of Art's efforts to channel community concern over its financially threatened film program into needed hard cash, the museum has set up a membership organization called the CineClub. According to a statement issued today, Angelenos who add an extra $50 to any level ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 26, 1966

    Don't Know Much About Art, But . . . L.A. County Supervisor Warren Dorn and county lawyer John Maharg discuss "Five Dollar Billy," part of Ed Kienholz's Roxy's installation portraying a whorehouse. The installation at the L.A. County Museum of Art, along with the artist's Back Seat Dodge, 38, create ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Why New York Hates L.A.: Chapter One

    The New York Times last week just couldn't help getting in a little dig at L.A. when it reported, on December 23, on the Museum of Contemporary Arts' financial meltdown. After describing MOCA's embrace of Eli Broad's $30M bailout offer,  Edward Wyatt and Jori Finkel wrote, "The plan avoids a pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Broad's Reach: MOCA to Announce New CEO

    By Tom ChristieIt would appear that Museum of Contemporary Art trustees have decided against a merger with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and are going with Eli Broad's bailout plan instead.A new MOCA CEO will be introduced at a museum press conference Tuesday morning.  Broad will join MO ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2008

    Sea Creatures at the Gift Shop

    Something to consider this holiday shopping season as Black Friday looms tomorrow is sea creatures. We had a rash of them recently in interior design. I'm thinking of the stuff from Roost, particularly their sea urchin tealight lanterns. When I was at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last weeken ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 20, 2008

    LACMA Deconstructed

    Machine Project rethinks what a museum is for

  • Music

    August 21, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Zane Musa, Sexteto Roberto Rodriguez

    Goodbye to pianist Tigran Hamasyan, hello to new Anita O'Day doc

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Boredoms to perform with 88 drummers on 8/8/08 at the La Brea Tar Pits

    One of my great regrets of last year was not flying to Brooklyn see Japanese experimental rhythm band (or however you want to describe them these days) the Boredoms perform with 77 drummers on 7/7/07. My friends who were there speak of the event with a mystical twinkle in their eye, as though they'v ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    May 1, 2008

    LACMA East: "Phantom Sightings" Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism

    One of my great regrets of last year was not flying to Brooklyn see Japanese experimental rhythm band (or however you want to describe them these days) the Boredoms perform with 77 drummers on 7/7/07. My friends who were there speak of the event with a mystical twinkle in their eye, as though they'v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

    You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's involvement. Read the full story of the museum raids here.

  • LA Life

    January 10, 2008

    Free-food Alert!

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Art+Books

    September 6, 2007

    Finish Fetish

    Crucifixions and Californians

  • Music

    June 21, 2007

    Brick's Picks: Jazz On Exhibition

    Great shows at LACMA, and other jazz picks

  • Art+Books

    January 4, 2007

    Masquerade, Long Exposures

    Great shows at LACMA, and other jazz picks

  • Art+Books

    June 29, 2006

    Auf Wiedersehen, Adele

    Last-chance Klimts

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

    Last-chance Klimts

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    An Annual Alphabet

    Last-chance Klimts

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    An Annual Alphabet

    Last-chance Klimts

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

    Last-chance Klimts

  • News

    August 25, 2005

    The Impossible Dream

    A map to the most buried of cinematic treasures

  • Art+Books

    May 5, 2005

    Poster-Modernism

    Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

  • Art+Books

    September 4, 2003

    Pushkin Comes to Shove

    Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

  • Art+Books

    May 15, 2003

    Hordes of Babylon

    Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    County Sneaks Through Museum Rebuild Proposal

    Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

  • Art+Books

    June 27, 2002

    The Pocko Collection

    Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

  • Film+TV

    February 7, 2002

    The Tycoon of Toon

    LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

  • Art+Books

    January 3, 2002

    10 Good Shows

    LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

  • Film+TV

    April 19, 2001

    Oblique Strategies

    The enigma of Abbas Kiarostami

  • Art+Books

    September 21, 2000

    If Not Now, Wha’?

    Contraptions and gizmos

  • Art+Books

    March 2, 2000

    Spinning Beds, Giant Table, Brancusi's beard

    Robert Therrien's big art

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