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Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

Pasadena's PST Shows Make Everyday Things Into Art, Like Porn and Furniture

It's high time to brave the Pasadena Freeway, thanks to four landmark Pacific Standard Time shows with ambitious curators, catalogues, and historical reach in Pasadena. Pasadena/San Marino has its PST "focus" weekend this Saturday and Sunday, which means lots of extra events. Michael Duncan's "LA R ... More >>

Peter Voulkos, Can I Have Your Autograph?

Superheroes of L.A. art and the young artists who idolize them

Will the Hilarious Lame Rap Video Ever Die? (Sorry, Whole Foods Parking Lot)

​ Will the hilarious lame rap video ever die? No offense to the L.A. guys who did the amusing "Whole Foods Parking Lot", or to the legendary Weird Al Yankovic, who has a new album out. But it's becoming clear that there's a formula to stuff like this. Would-be viral video stars are catching ... More >>

Brown Wants Return Of 'Desperate Housewives' Art Taken By Nazis During World War II

Norton Simon Museum​California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday said he filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing in favor of a Connecticut woman's legal attempt to get two paintings looted by Nazis during World War II. One of the pieces, "Eve," appears to be the inspiration f ... More >>

Eleven Warhol Portraits Stolen

​When art collector Richard L. Weisman's housekeeper showed up for work at his Angelo Drive home in the hills near Benedict Canyon, she knew something was missing from the dining room -- 11 Andy Warhols to be exact. She didn't stick around to count what had been taken, though, and fearing the thie ... More >>

Heath Bars, Lapin and Mash

Fusion Cuisine in Pasadena

Indian Art Exhibit

Museum Listings

For the week of November 16 - 22

The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

Big and Bigger

Cool toppers for the coffee table

Black and White (and Color) All Over

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Seven Degrees of Wally Berman

The culture of Semina

Frankenkultur

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

Monsters of German Modern Art

Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

Nun Dare Call It Criticism

Sister Wendy does Norton Simon

Mapping Andy

The Elements

Terra firma at the Museum of Latin American Art, amusements and an old master at the Norton Simon

Broad Warriors

’80s Sturm und Drang revisited

The Moon and the Stars

House of Whacks

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

Liquid Diet

In the beginning, there was beer...

Warm-Weather Edibles

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