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CicLAvia Shuts Down The Heart of Wilshire Blvd. June 23

CicLAvia, that closed-streets bike ride, has quickly evolved from a virtual neighborhood block party to a cultural tour de force in its short history. The last one, April 21, was so successful that the people complained of actual bicycle traffic jams. Only in L.A. The next one, June 23, continues t ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Dance in a Vintage Trailer

This week's dance events include the return of Dance Camera West dance film festival and Eifman Ballet's sensual bio-ballet Rodin. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. 5. A moving and movable ... More >>

MOCA Announces $60 Million Endowment, Vows 'Independence'

Only a week after the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) said no to a potential takeover by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), it appears we know why. While MOCA had suffered a financial drain that had it on the reported brink of death, the museum today reports that it now has means. Acc ... More >>

MOCA Says No To LACMA Takeover

Updated at the bottom: MOCA says no. First posted at 5:25 p.m on March 7. Headline has changed. The L.A. County Museum of Art is proposing to takeover the struggling Museum of Contemporary Art downtown. LACMA CEO Michael Govan confirmed the proposal in a statement today. He calls it a possible "me ... More >>

New York City Does Noir Too!? LACMA Brings You the Best of It

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage This month, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's film series "The Naked City: New York Noir and Neorealism" is highlighting the infusion of street photog ... More >>

Food Trucks Booted From LACMA Area During Day

Food trucks, those ubiquitous attractions along Wilshire Boulevard's Museum Row for hipsters and tourists alike, are getting the boot. The L.A. City Council voted last week to prohibit the trucks from parking on Wilshire between Fairfax Avenue and La Brea Avenue between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Is this a ... More >>

Jason Reitman's Live Read

Film's Fanciest Footwork

A Dollar a Whale

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Ray's: 99 Essential Restaurants 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 >>

Tim Burton

Tart for Tart's Sake

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 >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

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 >>

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 >>

Fruit, Foregrounded

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 >>

ELVIN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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.

Free-food Alert!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Finish Fetish

Crucifixions and Californians

Brick's Picks: Jazz On Exhibition

Great shows at LACMA, and other jazz picks

Masquerade, Long Exposures

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

An Annual Alphabet

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

The Impossible Dream

A map to the most buried of cinematic treasures

Poster-Modernism

Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

Hordes of Babylon

County Sneaks Through Museum Rebuild Proposal

The Pocko Collection

The Tycoon of Toon

LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

10 Good Shows

If Not Now, Wha’?

Contraptions and gizmos

Spinning Beds, Giant Table, Brancusi's beard

Robert Therrien's big art