Mike Kelley

Karen Finley Channels Dead Celebrities for Perform Chinatown, But Event Fails to Add Up to a Satisfying Whole

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Brian Bress' Wacky Videos Starring Scary Puppets and Gene Kelly

Brian Bress' video portrait Infinite Man is actually of a woman, even though that woman wears a Gene Kelly look-alike mask and circles around for ten minutes in front of tens of identical male faces. Bress made the mask and painted the backdrop before he asked his girlfriend to appear in the piece. ... More >>

Cy Twombly and Los Angeles: A Shaky Relationship

Photo credit: Paula Goldman. Courtesy MOCA LA. A view of the 1995 Cy Twombly retrospective at MOCA​ The painter Cy Twombly, who died Tuesday at the age of 83, has always, perhaps unfairly, been associated with high culture headiness. Sure, he came of age in New York alongside pop forerunners ... More >>

Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Glasser's Spectacle: Meet Cameron Mesirow

Name-dropped in this article: Mike Kelley, Foreign Born, Blue Man Group, Tauba Auerbach, Human Sexual Response

Rock Picks: Thurston Moore, James Blackshaw, Lisa Hannigan, Modest Mouse

Plus, Scott Walker Night, Dead Confederate, A.C. Newman

Juxtapalooza

The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No

But students and fearful faculty beg to differ

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

TV party tonight

In Plain Sight's Concealed Federal Witnesses and Swingtown's Suburban Sexual Adventurers

Hide and seek

Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

Playing with the camera

Art Utopia

Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber have it made — and so do their assistants

Gallery Listings

For the week of November 16 - 22

Museum Listings

For the week of November 16 - 22

Resistance Is Futile

How Takashi Murakami remade the world in his image

Rock Picks

For the week of July 12 – 19

The Newcomer

The Hammer’s Gary Garrels on crossing boundaries and art-world DMZs

A Tull Life

The not-so-lost decade

Art Pick: Abo Ovo, Tue., Feb. 7

Peter Voulkos - Wed., Feb. 8

Hurricane of the Eye

Artist Tim Hawkinson’s maelstrom of twisted fun

The End of Donald Kuspit?

The opening of his "California New Old Masters"

The Bear Essentials

Carlee Fernandez’s Visual Anthropomorphism

The Joy of Painting Saddam

John Kilduff and Let’s Paint TV

Plastic Fantastic Cadavers

The exquisite corpses of Dr. von Hagens

Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Sam & Dave

The politics of mixology

I See Lowbrow People

SHAG and Mark Ryden included. Plus, Terry Schoonhoven and Burnett Miller, RIP

The Coffee Table

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

Nuncomformist

Sister Corita Kent's Pop subversions

Critical Mass

From Johanna Went to Madame Tussaud: 20 years of arts coverage