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Phil Solomon's Historic Film Experiments, From U.S. Presidents to Grand Theft Auto

The avant-garde director has films at four locations in Los Angeles this week

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Cavemen in West Hollywood

This week, two artists dance with hula-hoops, another uses graffiti to obscure paintings of high-heeled, made-up models and a third installs hairy bronze statues in WeHo. 5. Just say no In 1962, Judson Dance Theater started at the Judson Church in Greenwich Village. Programming was informal; wri ... More >>

Refik Anadol Does Fascinating Things With Art and Technology — Like His Plan to Project Video Onto Disney Hall

Fire in the neighborhood

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including the Iconoclastic Urs Fischer at MOCA

This week, haunting films about cold-war America play for 15 hours straight on Alvarado and an artist sells cellphone holders that make your phone as unwieldy as one from landline days. 5. Holes in the walls Urs Fischer, the Swiss artist who stuck a fake tongue out of a hole in the New Museum's wa ... More >>

MOCA to Merge With Pinterest

Beset by financial troubles and a series of staff departures, the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced a surprise move: It will merge with the social networking site Pinterest. Effective today, MOCA is closing its brick and mortar locations, including its Grand Avenue headquarters, Geffen Conte ... More >>

Tuesday Is the New Thursday

A park like no other

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life screens in West Adams and a light show plays out in a corner in Culver City. 5. Mind games When artist J ... More >>

Humongous Mall Project Sparks Controversy in West Hollywood City Council Race

WEHOville recently broke a jaw-dropping story that's causing a major stir in West Hollywood and could possibly impact any driver passing through that city on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is already a rush hour nightmare. Developer Charles Cohen, who owns the Pacific Design Center and recently adde ... 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 >>

Theodore Rowan falls to death at Pacific Design Center

An opening event at the Pacific Design Center was interrupted by apparent suicide yesterday evening. Theodore Edward Rowan, 72, was a resident of West Hollywood, says Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Witnesses say Rowan fell to his death at approximately 5:30pm in the midst of ... More >>

Theodore Rowan, 72, Falls to Death at Pacific Design Center

An opening event at the Pacific Design Center was interrupted by apparent suicide yesterday evening. Theodore Edward Rowan, 72, was a resident of West Hollywood, says Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Witnesses say Rowan fell to his death at approximately 5:30pm in the midst of ... More >>

Does the Pacific Design Center Work as a Gallery Hub? Annie Wharton and John Espinosa Think So

Design Loves Art

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

Art that makes you feel small

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Paparazzi Art

This week, a flashing sign turns a basement into a danger zone, a veteran paparazzo exhibits his best shots and an exhibition at the MOCA Pacific Design Center outpost makes you feel you've swallowed Alice's shrinking potion. 5. Lazy Sunday music Critic and professor Jan Tumlir has written about ar ... More >>

Your body, yourself

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Trombone Collective

This week, artist and sunglasses designer Alex Israel debuts the talk show he shot in the Pacific Design Center, trombonists perform in a downtown art space, and fringe physicists reinvent gravity. 5. They're a collective, not a choir The trombone is purportedly the brass instrument with a range cl ... More >>

Lost in the Blue Whale

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Bartering for Paintings

Future and past feel like they're on a collision course this week -- especially in William Leavitt's deceptively mundane drawings of suburbia gone awry and Dennis Hoekstra's and Noah Olmsted's ghostly, garish re-envisioning of the Pacific Design Center. 5. Modern-day mythmaker Charles Garabedian di ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Murdered Paintings

Shunk-Kender, © Lichtenstein FoundationNiki de Saint Phalle shooting with a .22 rifle in the Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1961. ​ Everything on this week's list is either radical or rebellious, or hopelessly nostalgic about being radical and rebellious. 5. Revolutionizing the Sunset Strip The or ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Naples vs. Venice, Australian Wine, Andrew Zimmern Pop-Up, Bock Fest, Foraging Foodies

Naples vs. Venice Regional Italians cuisine goes head-to-head as two mammas, Napoli native Maria Marino and Venetian chef Luciana Ongaro, take over the kitchen at Marino Ristorante to cook dishes in the styles of their Italian hometowns. In one course, paccheri di gragnano al ragu imperiale (rigato ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Avatar in a Single Pixel

Courtesy Cardwell JimmersonA tiny cast resin pill Terry O'Shea made in 1968​ This week's selection feels refreshingly down-to-earth, even practical in its approach to both nitty-gritty issues, like holiday decor, and theoretical ones, like how to think about passing time. 5. Tree Library It's ... More >>

Opening and Closing in Your 'Hood: An October Restaurant Roundup

Guzzle & NoshR.I.P Gastrobus, Welcome Gastronomico​Attaining overnight success in the restaurant business is largely an urban myth (unless you're backed by a corporate restaurant group with tons of money to spend on marketing). Even a few empty seats in your new eatery can make you sweat. Whil ... More >>

Miranda July's New Film The Future and MOCA Exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things"

With her talking cat, T-shirt dance, interactive pink thought balloons and unicorn fans, the filmmaker-artist just wants us all to connect

Musical Art Spaces

Gallery life: openings, closures and reopenings

Cart For a Cause Truck at Pacific Design Center Today, with Il Grano Chef Salvatore Marino

N. GalutenCart For a Cause is at the Pacific Design Center today​ Today you get another chance to have lunch cooked by a top level L.A. chef at a very reasonable discount, with the additional bonus that all proceeds go to charity. The Cart For a Cause truck is parking outside the Pacific Desi ... More >>

Screening and Q&A with Atom Egoyan

Nightranger: In Bloom

Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art

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WORN OUT: The Hollywood Life Style Awards

Planning outfits for a night on the town can tough, but during Fashion Week in LA, it's especially treacherous. You wanna look good and somewhat "on-trend," but not like you're trying too hard. If you do go for the gold -i.e. glam it out and stand out- ya better make sure you're pulling off whatever ... More >>

On Fashion Week

Couture Salvage, Bettina Hubby's Co-Tour 2008, Rocky Horror Reminder

How the Hell Is It June Already?

What to do in L.A., May 30-June 5

Dirty Fruit

Papilloma virus, filth-encrusted fingernails and more

Q&A With The Realist's Paul Krassner at Chicago 10 Screening

"Communicate without compromise," says the man who coined "yippie"

Truths Told

Florian Meier-Aichen and Reza Derakshani

Seven Abstract Painting Shows

Beginning with Rothko

Ask Mr. Gold: Manhattan Clam Chowder

Kyoto Decadence

When it opens this weekend, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha will already be trailing a long stream of scandal: the Japanese community is up in arms because the three female leads are played by Chinese actresses (admittedly a bit perplexing), and a certain faction of militant Chinese ... More >>

Darker Than Night

L.A.’s big blue mirror

Canadian Club

The Royal Art Lodge Spikes L.A. art scene

WeHo Voices

Werewolves of Hollywood

Edited by Kateri Butler

No Said Fred

Edited by Kateri Butler

Landmarks

WeHo Dining

Style Council