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How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

Crash-site abstraction

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Chicken Nugget Totem Pole

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 >>

Snow White Is a Badass: Princess Gets Modern Makeover at Michael Kohn Gallery and in Movies

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Weegee at MOCA to L.A. Art's Equivalent of The Wire

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 >>

Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Arrive This Weekend, But Can They Piggyback On Pacific Standard Time Successfully?

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 >>

Wherever You Go, There You Are

THE NOT-SO ENCHANTED FOREST

Will Cotton Exhibition in West Hollywood: Where To Get Your Katy Perry Candyland Fix

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 >>

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

“Bruce Conner in the 1970s” at Michael Kohn Gallery

Over the Weekend: Jacuzzi Parties, Animal Collective, David Lynch and Danger Mouse's Dark Night of the Soul, Pro-Gay Marriage Rally in Fresno

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 >>

The Great Music Save: Dark Night of the Soul Opens at Michael Kohn Gallery

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.

HORSE & MOUTH DISEASE

Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

Richard Prince, Wallace Berman and Their Women

Prince and the Beat-Popper

Rude Celebrity Sightings

A report from the art fairs, and more

Art Around Town: Korty, Grinnan and Butzer

Figures of Authority: Jean Conner, Jerome Witkin

Works on view at Michael Kohn and Jack Rutberg galleries

Wild Brushfire Set by Gary Edward Blum, Barbara Kerwin, Dennis Hollingsworth

Darkness Falls, Abstraction Illuminates

Christine Nguyen, Daniel Richter, Mel Bochner, Victor Man

Deconstruction Zones

Gordon Wagner, Wallace Berman

Stark Shadows

Linda and Bruce and Jess and Agnes

Must See Art

Jessica Stockholder, “Sex in the Office” at 1301PE and “Abstraction” at Michael Kohn Gallery

Shooting Low, Aiming High

The strange trajectory of Mark Ryden

Sharon Ben-Tal, Wally Hedrick

Taking on the Armory

L.A. dealers create their own New York show

The Bruce Conner Story

Not a retrospective