Museum of Jurassic Technology

An Artist Who's Obsessed With Dogs That Hang Out Around Art

The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) in Culver City has a permanent exhibit devoted to the Sputnik space dogs, dogs found on Moscow streets, trained, dressed in dog-sized space suits then sent into orbit by the Soviet space program late in the 1950s and early in the 1960s. The exhibit features cl ... More >>

Echo Park: Greatest Neighborhood in Los Angeles, Which has 87 of Them

By Hillel Aron Echo Park is, depending on your point of view: the poor man's Silver Lake, the rich man's Highland Park, the Williamsburg of the West Coast, a 40,455-personl working-class burg full of diversity and a wee bit of gang violence. Or, it's that strange little neighborhood you drive throu ... More >>

10 Things to Do in L.A. on Your Last Day on Earth

We're sure you've heard, on December 21, 2012 -- mere days from now -- we're all fucked. According to the latest scientifically astroreligious analysis, the gates of Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld, will open to unleash upon the earth beasts and plagues of unfathomable cruelty and unimaginable horro ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Renaissance Painting With RoboCop

This week, the ghost of a long-defunct society hosts a concert in Culver City, a video artist channels allergy-drug commercials and a sculptor pumps water through a maze of PVC pipes. 5. Renaissance meets RoboCop Peter Weller starred in the 1987 film RoboCop, about a robotic police officer ("part ... More >>

L.A. Mobile Arts Festival Showcases iPhone and iPad Art, With Not Even One Shot of a Yelped Dinner

For anyone who wants to augment his or her iPhone photos, there's an app for everything -- except mounting them in a gallery. Daria Polichetti and Nathaniel Park, co-founders of the artists' community and sharing platform iPhoneArt.com, decided to take up that task. The pair collected the iPhone-c ... More >>

Knowledges Is Power

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock's Debut

This week, a temporary exhibition takes over Mount Wilson Observatory, an artist reflects on Hurricane Katrina and LACMA's Levitated Mass finally opens to the public. 5. The artist and the hurricane "It is important you trust me enough to follow my thoughts but mistrust me enough to question them," ... More >>

Roll Up! L.A.'s Magical, BYOB, Pants-Dropping, Pole-Dancing Mystery Trip Is Waiting to Take You Away

You're standing on the corner of Third and San Vicente in a silly hat on a Sunday morning, sipping a Bloody Mary from a blue Solo cup, ready for anything. You were told to bring a beach towel, a $2 bill, a vegetable and your favorite movie candy, among other things, but you have no idea why. This is ... More >>

Top 10 Weirdest Stores in Los Angeles

Looking for a book about the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society? Perhaps you need a Jolly Roger doormat for the house. Maybe you just want to pick up some time-travel sickness pills, a spray-bottle of barbarian repellant or a few fresh dinosaur eggs before you blast to the past. Whatever yo ... More >>

David Rees

David Rees' Book How to Sharpen Pencils: Emotional Memoir Meets Writing Implement Maintenance Guide

David Rees, best known for his comic strip Get Your War On, is all over town this week promoting his new book, How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths & Civil Servants. Bette ... More >>

Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion

Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others

Hand-Crafted Films

Hooray for Culver City

Everybody Rag Now!

Orange you glad I didn't say Biennial?

Cali Bi at OCMA, plus Sean Duffy and John Paul Jones at LAM

Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar

Serbian Guitar Master Miroslav Tadic at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Serbian Guitar Master Miroslav Tadic at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

There Go the Zeros

The passing of the first decayed

Best Offbeat Music Series in a Museum: The Museum of Jurassic Technology

Best Offbeat Music Series in a Museum: The Museum of Jurassic Technology

GO LA: Lebowski, Tom Arnold and Other Big Events

What to do in L.A., May 8-14

LINIANS? IS THAT YOU?

Hoopla: How to Be Happy

What to do for the next seven days

Everything Bad Starts in Culver City. Everything.

Best Dream Home: Museum of Jurassic Technology

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts

Art to live for

Kid Stuff

Practical jokes and comics: the season’s best art books

A Child's Garden of Modernism

Kindergarten at Art Center

Pamela Z: Wunderkabinet

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

Calarts in Moving Pictures: A Mini Tribute

Mr. Magneto

The Electric Life of Michael Faraday

Friday, Jan. 27

Digital Universe

With L.A. at its center

The Material World

One Wilshire: Hotel Cyberspace

An Anti-Pretty Pretty Boy

Charles Stolarek and His Wooden Mustache

Stuff

The sculptures of Lynn Aldrich, the paintings of Dennis Hollingsworth and the puppets of Anaphoria

Almost Being There

Dental x-rays, flowers and the museum of jurassic technology

Shadow People

“Devices of Wonder, ”Patty Wickman, Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Jurassic Sequels

Bughouse anthropology and panoramania

Renaissance Man

Athanasius Kircher at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Expanding Microminiaturists

The Museum of Jurassic Technology goes large(r)

Crazy Summer

The Prinzhorn Collection: The original Outsider Art. Plus, Robert Overby’s castings, James Gobel’s bears and much more

The Big Nowhere

Out on the Nellis Range with the Center for Land Use Interpretation

The Nice New Norton Simon

And a lament for the old

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

1987 Timeline

The Way of the Dinosaurs?