Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Rita Gonzalez: LACMA Curator and Defender of Subtlety

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Five months after a 340-ton rock officially became part of Michael Heizer's massive Levitated Mass sculpture on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Rita ... More >>

Is This 500-Year-Old African Sculpture Worth $1 Million? LACMA's Collectors Committee Gets to Decide

See also: *LACMA Collectors Committee's Battle Royale *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The Resnick Pavilion, the newest building and the only single-story one on the Los Angeles County Museum's campus, was closed to the public this weekend. But if you looked in the window, you would have see ... More >>

LACMA's Reinstallation of Its Latin American Art Galleries, Explained

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Born in Mexico City, Ilona Katzew came to L.A. 13 years ago to assume a role at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as an associate curator of Latin American art. At the time, Latin American art was a component of a larger museum department that al ... More >>

LACMA and MOCA's Possible Merger: The Internet Reacts

See also: *LACMA Proposes To Take Over MOCA The art world is abuzz with news about the possible merging of art museum titans Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Basically, LACMA would help MOCA financially sustain itself while keeping its name. Sounds like a good de ... More >>

Eat, Drink, Conquer

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Josie's Beekeeper Release Tasting, Mashed Potatoes Pop-Up, Taste of LA at the Breeders' Cup Good Food Conference

Josie's Beekeeper Release Tasting Don't worry about flying insects at this dinner; it's actually a private release party for one of Sonoma's up-and-coming vineyards. Appetizers from chef Josie Le Balch will be paired with a selection of the cellar's newest wines. Reservations are strongly recommende ... More >>

Why Are Ken Price's Oddball Sculptures at LACMA So Compelling?

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rev. Robert V. Taylor Talk Gays and God at LACMA

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu made a rare appearance in Los Angeles last night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with his friend and protege the Rev. Robert V. Taylor, who has written the book A New Way to be Human. A God that loves everyone and connects everyone figures h ... More >>

Katie Hamilton's Breastfeeding Sucks Sense Out of LACMA: Museum Apologizes

An L.A. mom whipped out her booby and started breastfeeding at the L.A. County Museum of Art recently, inspiring a hapless "staffer" to tell her to cover up. We call it human-nature performance art. The LACMA guard thought it was too strip club. And so Katie Hamilton and her supporters have taken ... More >>

Rock-y Road: Street Closures for LACMA's Levitated Mass

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation announced Monday it will be implementing rolling (get it?) street closures to accommodate LACMA's Levitated Mass as it crawls through the the busiest corridor of its route at speeds of 5 to 8 miles per hour. The 340-ton rock is about halfway through an ... More >>

LACMA Is Having Boulder Problems

The New York Times finally made a correct assumption about Los Angeles today, in the scathing "340-Ton Sculpture Versus Immovable Bureaucracy." Writer Adam NaGourney blames the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's delay in moving the centerpiece of a new installation from Riverside to its West L.A. c ... More >>

LACMA Muse Dead Man's Costume Ball Puts Tim Burton Show in the Ground, With Costumes From Jack and Sally to Beetlejuice

She Wants Revenge performs at LACMA costume ball​The LACMA Muse Costume Ball is one of Los Angeles's hottest Halloween tickets, and with the wildly popular Tim Burton exhibit in its final days and KROQ jumping on board, Saturday's sold out Dead Man's Ball came with an especially large amount o ... More >>

More Than Mere Doughnuts

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

16 Awesome Costumed Couples at LACMA's Muse Ball (And Some Who Should Have Been Couples, But Sadly, Were Not)

Are you sick of Halloween yet? Me neither! It should be Halloween everyday. (And here at the LA Weekly's Style Council, it often feels like it is.) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's annual Muse Costume Ball is one of the best places to people-watch. This year, couples stole the show. Here are t ... More >>

The heel's guide to L.A. tail: 1974's America's Best Pick Up Spots!

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. America's Best Pick Up Spots! Author:Eric Weber & M. Rob Frazier Date: 1974 Publisher: Eric Weber Press, Tenafl ... More >>

POM Juice Claims Sexual Benefit In New Ads: L.A. Billionaire And POM Co-Owner Lynda Resnick Backs The Claim

​You have to admire the owners of POM Wonderful, the pomegranate juice maker that claims its product can prevent or treat heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction: A week after being slapped with a federal complaint alleging its claims are as lame as your penis will still be a ... More >>

L.A. Art Fabricator Known For Jeff Koons Work Goes Under

jeffkoons.com'Balloon Dog.'​Los Angeles area art fabricator Carlson & Co., perhaps best known for its work giving life to some of Jeff Koons' visions, announced it is going out of business, according to Bloomberg News.

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 >>

Men Are From Seoul, Women Are From Pusanthe: The films of South Korean director Hong Sang-soo

Getting to the Getty: Parking Goes Up to $15

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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 >>

In Surprise Move, Moca Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

In Surprise Move, MOCA Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

An unconfirmed report suggests that the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees is ready to turn control of the embattled institution over to a small non-profit art space, Machine Project. "Basically, the board doesn't know what to do," said a source with inside information. "This is a Hai ... More >>

LACMA Deconstructed

Machine Project rethinks what a museum is for

Another Piano for LACMA: $45 Million Donation from Stewart and Lynda Resnick

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced this morning (well, if you don't count the New York Times and L.A. Times, both of which got the story last week for publication today) a $45 million donation from Stewart and Lynda Resnick. The gift will fund the building of a large new Renzo Piano exh ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Zane Musa, Sexteto Roberto Rodriguez

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

Comedy Director Richard Quine's Desperate Characters and Lonely Hearts

Beyond screwball

Heinz Emigholz: Build It and He Will Come

Weeklong retrospective salutes avant-garde filmmaker

LACMA Raided! Updated with Search Warrants

County Museum board members busted in illegal art sting The L.A. County Museum of Art got some unexpected visitors this morning, when federal agents arrived en masse with search warrants. The raid, the result of a five-year investigation into illegal dealing of Asian artifacts, according to federa ... More >>

LACMA + BCAM = A FUTURE

The not-so-little engine that could

the Misfits

The Films of Lee Chang-Dong

Call It LACKMA?

The Thrill of the Hunt

The scavengers out there

The Encyclopedic City

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

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Best Boots Remade for ­Walking

Auf Wiedersehen, Adele

Last-chance Klimts

The Essential Kieslowski

An Annual Alphabet

The Curse of Tut

Making Believe for Real

The Revelations of Diane Arbus

Filmo Sapiens

Master filmmakers Chris Elio Petri, ripe for rediscovery

Pushkin Comes to Shove

Time Lost and Found

LACMA revisit La Belle Époche

Oblique Strategies

The enigma of Abbas Kiarostami

Global Beat

The heritage of African music

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

Lies To Get You Out of the House