Mark Rothko

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an All-Female Hamlet

No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings. Plays informed by dreams and dream-states are the subject of this week's theater feature: Pericles, P ... More >>

Wilshire Boulevard Temple Launches a Unique Project to Bridge Religion and Art

Theater to See This Week, Including John Henry Redwood's Trip Back to 1943 Harlem

 John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-December romance is an old one, but it receives a charming and inventive treatment." Also, Deborah Klugman ... More >>

Red

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Red, The Return to Morality, and the Artist as Subject

John Logan and Jamie Pachino's plays examine the concept of true self for artists with false names

Riding Dirty With Rothkos: Jay-Z And Kayne West's Luxury Referenced Decoded

​Rapping about the finer things is a big part of what hip-hop's about these days. But what happens when you have no idea what the hell's being boasted about? That's the case on Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West's self-described "luxury rap" album. It's clear that they're bragging about ... More >>

Feds Arrest Matthew Taylor for Selling Forged Paintings of Monet, van Gogh and Rothko

​Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Theses are some of the greatest artists in history and have produced some of the world's most expensive paintings. And according to the FBI, 43-year-old Matthew Taylor has forged them all and taken millions from unsuspecting art ... More >>

William Leavitt's Spectral Analysis

All the world's a set

A Play on Worlds

Tim Hawkinson's latest spin

Liz Larner and Catherine Opie at Regen Projects

MOCA Is Back With A Little Help ($60 Million Worth) From Its Friends

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday celebrates its survival after nearly going under (and temporarily closing its Geffen Contemporary branch) with a 30-year retrospective exhibition.MOCADoug Wheeler, 'RM 669.'​Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years happens through May 3 and features 6,000 pieces o ... More >>

Tomory Dodge at Acme.

Peter Lodato at William Turner Gallery

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Pure Energy

The death and life of the beloved Laserium

Seven Abstract Painting Shows

Beginning with Rothko

Out Standing in His Field

Gustave Courbet and the landscape of Modernism

Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood

Cracked Abstraction

The geometrical designs of Alfred Jensen, the "O-ist" discoveries of Jim Shaw

Slow Dazzle

Contemplating Milton Avery

Dreaming, Grieving, Making Music

Neil Young and Loren Connors rock & roll over

Out of the Woods

Loren Mazzacane Connors, ax hero

The New York Century

It's no sensation

MOCA's Two Heads

Richard Koshalek,Outgoing Jeremy Strick, Incoming

Mastery, Mastery

Stuff of Obsession

Rediscovering Yayoi Kusama