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Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston

Our Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: Gehry's Back at MOCA, LACMA's Black Blob

This is the fifth installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city during the Getty's big initiative. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture *SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treeh ... More >>

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

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cough Syrup Spraying to a Justin Bieber Song

This week, footage about a high-energy collaboration between artists, architects and Pepsi plays at the MAK Center, one artist leads people on a hunt for truth and other intangibles at the Getty and another turns cough syrup into something of a tribute. 5. Art, lies and hashtags A green vinyl sign ... More >>

Our Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: 'Everything Loose Will Land,' the A D Gala and Machine Project

This is the third installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture *SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treehorn's House High temperatures mig ... More >>

Our Diary of the Getty's L.A. Architecture Project: SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treehorn's House

This is the second installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, covering the Modern architecture extravaganza that's blanketing the city. Go here for the first installment: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture. Who would have guessed that with just the right amount of ... More >>

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 >>

Schindler House Transforms Into a Visitors Center for an Exhibit About How We Travel

Xavier Veilhan Has Been Living in a Historic Neutra House and Putting Sculptures All Over the Place

In some circles in L.A., mid-century architecture is sacred -- never to be modified, altered, or renovated. Richard Neutra's VDL Research House II, overlooking the reservoir in Silver Lake and built by the architect for his own family, is considered iconic here. Now owned by Cal Poly Pomona, the 2,0 ... More >>

The Big Canvas

If you give an artist a billboard ...

Some Billboards Will Go From Blight To Alright

The city of Los Angeles might be famous for bungling its regulation of out-of-control billboards and supergraphics, but for the latter part of winter some of those outdoor advertisements around town will blossom into works of art. Sure, it's little consolation for those of you whose views are aglo ... More >>

Rainer Prohaska's Restaurant Transformable at the Mackey Apartments

E.Z. WrightsonChef Transformable: Rainer Prohaska​The process of preparing, eating, and talking about food has become not just a spectator sport, but a viral topic of current culture. For Rainer Prohaska, the MAK Center's Austrian artist in residence, the making and eating of a meal is an imme ... More >>

Best in Show 2008

Art Around Town: Korty, Grinnan and Butzer

Lauri Firstenberg

Biennialist

Art Openings

For the week of November 30 - December 6

Art Openings

For the week of Aug. 31 – Sept. 6

Symmetry

The Blob

Air as architecture

Light and Open

The Schindler House searches for a perfect neighbor

Urban Myths: Busting the Black Dahlia Avenger

Not Necessarily the Usual Suspects

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Booster Shots

Then and now

The Accordion in Her Life