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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Battling Buddhas to a Dinner Party at MOCA

If you have family in town for the holiday this weekend, try dashing over to Patrick Painter gallery in Santa Monica to a film of battling Buddhas or to Chinatown's The Company for an overly enthusiastic paintings show. You don't have to know art to enjoy, either. 5. A New Album Release, 40 Years ... More >>

Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

Until the Light Takes Us Will Bring You into the Darkness Tonight

Here's a movie that'll kill your Christmas spirit, though if you're a black metal fan, you ​wouldn't have any to begin with. After screening as part of last year's AFI Fest, the theatrical release of N.Y. filmmakers/musicians Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Norwegian black metal documentary Unt ... More >>

Francesca Gabbiani at Patrick Painter

Rude Celebrity Sightings

A report from the art fairs, and more

Duking It Out at Patrick Painter With Jim and Peter and Glenn

Agree to dis

Art Around Town: Korty, Grinnan and Butzer

Hey, Ladies!

The girls go wild west at Bergamot

Must See Art

Bas Jan Ader and Mari Eastman

Taking on the Armory

L.A. dealers create their own New York show

Night Vision

Jim Shaw's "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

Night Vision

Jim Shaw’s "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

Don’t Look Back

Mike Kelley’s Proposal

Cracked Abstraction

The geometrical designs of Alfred Jensen, the "O-ist" discoveries of Jim Shaw

I See Lowbrow People

SHAG and Mark Ryden included. Plus, Terry Schoonhoven and Burnett Miller, RIP

Death-Stalking, Sleep-Walking, Barbarian Ninja Terminators

Hand-painted movie posters from Ghana at the Fowler. Plus, Ivan Morley at Patrick Painter

Ten Shows That Rocked My World

Bounty

A big weekend of openings

Crazy Summer

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

Absolut Hot and Absolut Not

The L.A. International Biennial Invitational . . . whatever