This week's list includes a flute concert inside a video art installation, a carefully planned twenty-minute argument, and an exhibition that's like a film set. 5. Crash site abstraction Owen Kydd's video Composition Warner Studio shows a black plastic garbage bag crinkling and billowing in front o ... More >>
This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>
By now, you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about Pacific Standard Time, the Getty-funded arts extravaganza that kicks off this weekend. The year-long, $10 million initiative involves more than 60 cultural institutions and 70 commercials galleries focuses on postwar art in Los Ang ... More >>
If you've been one of the millions who have viewed Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video on YouTube with its Candyland-inspired set of life-size gummy bears and cupcake bikini tops, you've already seen the work of Will Cotton, the artistic director of the video. Cotton's first music video gig may ha ... More >>
Highlights from the fall season
While some might argue that the most exciting thing that happened this weekend was Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" sitting bare-assed on Eminem's face at the MTV Movie Awards, there was more to take in (and take off) in Los Angeles this weekend that didn't involve well-played publicity stunts. Friday ni ... More >>
Untitled (Little Girl #2) David Lynch, 2009Last Saturday's Dark Night of the Soul opening at LA's Michael Kohn Gallery, featuring the work of David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, wasn't just the hot event ticket of the weekend, it was one of the greatest save's in music history.
What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4
Prince and the Beat-Popper
A report from the art fairs, and more
Works on view at Michael Kohn and Jack Rutberg galleries
Christine Nguyen, Daniel Richter, Mel Bochner, Victor Man
Gordon Wagner, Wallace Berman
Linda and Bruce and Jess and Agnes
Jessica Stockholder, “Sex in the Office” at 1301PE and “Abstraction” at Michael Kohn Gallery
The strange trajectory of Mark Ryden
L.A. dealers create their own New York show
Not a retrospective
