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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Memories of a Drive-by Gallery

This week, an artist stages a tiny exhibition at Central Library and a century-old Rodin sculpture plays a part in an afternoon-long performance. 5. J.J. Abrams inspires an art book The Lost Issue , the catalog for the "Lost (in L.A.)" exhibition at Barnsdall Park, a show of French and Angeleno art ... More >>

When a Video Artwork Showed the Presidential Debate, the Audience Tried to Change the Volume. But Is That Like Drawing on a Picasso?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app Last night's presidential debate didn't get nearly as heated as the firestorm that erupted during it at the Hammer Museum. Within the My Land/Your Land exhibit, a performance art piece by Jonathan Ho ... More >>

Grand Illusion Rereleased

Jean Renoir's epic is newly restored

Top Five Rappers In Absolutely Ridiculous Sweaters

Drake and his sweater on Saturday Night Live​The young rap billionaire Drake has a new album out this week. It's probably fantastic! But more important than any critical assessment of his music, it's another opportunity for Drake to assert his commitment to the bemusing art of wearing really a ... More >>

Douglas Wright, Christine Wilson and Janice Perlin: Three of Hollywood's Copycat Artists

Achtung! Über Graffiti Twins How & Nosm Take L.A. By Paint

Nanette Gonzales​For more photos, see "How and Nosm in L.A." Raoul and Davide Perre, otherwise known as artists How and Nosm, are identical German twins that yes, speak their own graf language and even finish each others sentences. To mark their first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, opening ... More >>

'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know About Gertrude Stein?

​​Carl Van VechtenWriter and art collector Gertrude Stein​​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have always contributed to advances in many different societies. One such person is Gertrude Stein, influential writer and art collector who grew up for a period of her life in Oa ... More >>

Rembrandt Drawing Worth a Quarter Million Stolen From Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Rey

A self-portrait of Rembrandt.​Updated at the bottom: Rembrandt recovered (but no suspects were in custody). First posted at 7:04 a.m. Monday. It sounded like a scene out of a high-intrigue film about white-gloved burglars, something with the tone of a James Bond caper or The Thomas Crown Affa ... More >>

Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies

Jennie Warren​Ice Cube may cut hair in the movies, but if you schedule a photo shoot with him, his people will request it be BYOB -- Bring Your Own Barber. You'll need to bring a makeup artist, too. After all, he's not the same man he was when Boyz n the Hood came out, 20 years ago last month ... More >>

Radar L.A. Festival

Stage Raw: Room Service

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>

Theater Reviews: K2, The Train Driver

Also, Venice, On Emotion, FDR and more

Stage Raw: The Train Driver

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteNEW REVIEW GO THE TRAIN DRIVER ​ Photo by Ed Krieger South African playwright Athol Fugard's plays have dealt with the havoc wrought in his country by Apartheid, but his more recent works also often possess the feel of a ghos ... More >>

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Quandary at Literati Café

Ben CalderwoodColor-mixing: Literati's Eggs Florentine​ You might not expect such an astutely poached egg atop your Benedict at a commonplace all-day café like Literati, but that's what you get. Tender, uniform capsules of golden yolk that flood your artisan roll the moment you prod the white ... More >>

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

The Power of Negative Thinking

Rachel Whiteread's inner spaces, Karen Carson's inflammatory paces

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

Signs of the Times at UCLA

Students, faculty stage walkouts to protest budget cuts

Ruby Neri at David Kordansky Gallery

Move Over Rodin, for a New Twist on Traditional Figurative Sculpture.

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Walking Through Two Germanys

A guided tour with curator Stephanie Barron

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Farewell Sophia Petrillo

By Siran Babayan A wise person once said, “Life is like a piece of shredded wheat.” No, it wasn’t Gandhi. It was Sophia Petrillo, aka Estelle Getty. Sophia came to this country a poor Sicilian immigrant with nothing but a pizza recipe and a dream (she was robbed by Mama Celeste). Her son wa ... More >>

Museum Listings

For the week of November 16 - 22

The Refugee

Expatriate artist R.B. Kitaj's bittersweet homecoming

Reverb and Renown

Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico in Santa Monica

It�s a Woman�s World

A celebration of Los Angeles avant-garde cinema sheds its light on the softer sex

The Passion of the Rad

An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world�s next great midnight movie

Way Down Yonder

New Orleans: The heart of the matter

A Fowler Trifecta

And then some

Premature Exhibitionism

Pictures from a Gone World

The First Time

The First Time

Lie of the Land

Some of our favorite art hoaxes

Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Surrogate fathers in The Good Thief and The Son

Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch

The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen

Street Action

American Idols

Urban Naturalist: The $5.5 Billion Bird

TRIBES: Kittens and Puppies and Birds, Oh My

Fifth Lady Down

The death of the Desert Inn. Is this the end of Vegas cool?

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Fleas, flying fish, glass eyeballs, dissected Japanese criminals. Rimbaud and Hammett, too

Homer and Ray

Illustration as social sculpture

Divine Madness

All-In-One Redux

Meals cheap, fast and with a past

Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.

From Their Vaults to Your Desktop

Finding documents �The Man� wants to hide

Artitecture

Building as installation: London�s Tate Modern

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