Pasadena Museum of California Art

Sorting Through Sam Francis' Paintings at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Clarinet Imitating a Cricket

This week, four decades' worth of a prolific abstract expressionist's work appears in Pasadena and a vacant East L.A. lot becomes an exhibition space. 5. Nine-day habitat Byron Westbrook's brief exhibition "Interval/Habitat" at Human Resources is meant to serve as a stage for the audience members ... More >>

Making the Scene

Cars and shorts

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Warrior Snowman and a New Bridge Over the 210 in Arcadia

This week, artists contemplate the end of the Mayan calendar, Metro debuts its strange new Gold Line bridge and a group exhibition experiments in portraiture. 5. Live-streaming the end times The supposed upcoming apocalypse triggered by the end of the Mayan calendar has become a fixation. This wee ... More >>

Jessica Rath Turns the Science of Apple Breeding Into Art, in Pasadena

Guillermo Bert Weaves Tapestries That Look Like...QR Codes?

At Guillermo Bert's art studio in The Brewery, old technology fuses with new in the most harmonious way possible. Bert's show "Encoded Textiles," which started Sunday at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, literally weaves together large-scale tapestries with QR codes that can be read with smart ... More >>

Los Angeles' War on Street Artists

The art world sees a vibrant movement. Metro's cops see jail fodder.

If Dr. House Were an Artist: 'Fascinomas' Turns Diagnosis Into Images at the Pasadena Museum

On the walls of Nancy Baker Cahill's Los Feliz studio are tacked up pictures of microscopic pieces of pollen blown up 10,000 times -- not necessarily typical inspiration for a visual artist. "What exactly is this?" viewers might ask. They have to squint up close and stand far back, trying to unders ... More >>

Pasadena Museum's 'Beneath the Surface' Exhibit by the JPL's Dan Goods Lets You Visualize Jupiter With a Cellphone

Pasadena Museum of California ArtPasadena Museum of Art's Project Room is covered in a layer of fog to make it look like Jupiter​ At the Pasadena Museum of California Art, art lovers can gain a sense of what it might be like searching on the surface of Jupiter -- by using a cellphone. The inst ... More >>

Take Me to Your Apple Breeder

Jessica RathDeacon Jones​ A Deacon Jones is a large, oblong apple with juicy, coarse-textured flesh. A Kazakhstan Elite refers not to the ruling class of Borat's home-country, but one of the original, edible apple varieties hailing from its wilds. They're all part of Jessica Rath's Take Me t ... More >>

Locals Only

Changing the System From Within

Last Call: Wayne Thiebaud's Palettes of Palates on view through Sunday at Pasadena Museum of CA Art

Until a major Cézanne retrospective or a survey of Dutch still life paintings comes to local museums, the best dose of foodie art is on view now and lasts only through the end of the week. Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting at the Pasadena Museum of California Art closes on Sunday, January 31. Th ... More >>

Heath Bars, Lapin and Mash

Fusion Cuisine in Pasadena

Art Around Town

Flashism

No Strings Attached: Puppetry at SMMOA; Kori Newkirk at PMCA

Animation sparks magic in these bodies of art

Stark Shadows

Linda and Bruce and Jess and Agnes

Irving Norman, Healing

Shooting Low, Aiming High

The strange trajectory of Mark Ryden

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Pictures From the Unibrow Revolution

Or, how outlaw art went mainstream

Godawfulism II

It ain’t what you paint (it’s the way that you paint it)

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

Summer Calendar