Paul McCarthy

10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time -- that regionwide, Getty-funded series of exhibitions on SoCal art history -- wound down and the art community shifted attention from past to present. Maybe it's because th ... More >>

'1 Image 1 Minute' Event Is Like Show and Tell, But With Republican Porn, Dolly Parton and Horse Bestiality

As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, X-TRA Magazine, a Los Angeles-based art journal, presented the fourth installment of its popular 1 Image 1 Minute event series, in which a few dozen members of the local art community are each asked to present a photograph that is meaningful to them and s ... More >>

Macho flutist with lady legs

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Techno in a Car Wreck

This week, an exhibition feels like a haunted graveyard, a performer turns his body into a chemistry experiment and a sculptor exploits building codes. 5. Devil's Night in the middle of the day In urban Detroit in the 1970s and '80s, the night before Halloween, called Devil's Night, was a mess of a ... More >>

James Franco's Art: A Layperson's Guide

See also: *James Franco's MOCA Show Opening: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There' *James Franco & Alex Israel: Why Their Obsession With Celebrity Doesn't Pay Off Who are we to argue celebrity artistic merit -- or any artistic merit anywhere? It is 2012, after all, and it has kinda all been done. ... More >>

James Franco, Paul McCarthy & Damon McCarthy

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sculptures of Fax Machines

This week, snarky performance artist Eleanor Antin remembers Stalin, Paul McCarthy pulls a chair out from under a fictional Natalie Wood and sculptor Emily Counts turns a fax machine mystical. 5. What's war got to do with it? In the trailer for their new exhibition and performance series, Arjun Ne ... More >>

James Franco's MOCA Show Opening Night: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There'

"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," the painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the alleyway behind JF Chen, a collectible furniture showroom and exhibit space, at the opening party for "Rebel ... 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 >>

Pacific Standard Time: Don't Be Overwhelmed. Just Take it Slow.

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Timeline 1945-1980

A short, admittedly reductive guide to postwar L.A. art

Jacob Kassay at L&M Arts: 27-Year-Old, $290,500-Painting Superstar Is Actually Pretty Good

Jacob Kassay, "Untitled," 2011. Photo: Josh White/JWPictures, Courtesy L&M Arts, Los Angeles.Jacob Kassay's ballet barre, hung in front of silver-coated paper.​ It's not helpful to know an artist's work has sold in the secondary market for nearly $300,000 before you've seen it in person. Nor ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

Beyond the Buttplug Gnome

Rotterdam's Wunderbaum satirizes the arts-funding debate

Musical Art Spaces

Gallery life: openings, closures and reopenings

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

Robert Mallary at the Box

Konstantin Bojanov at Otero Plassart

Getting Older: The Residents Live at the Henry Fonda Theater

View more photos in Timothy Norris' "The Residents @ Henry Fonda Theater" slideshow. "Do they wear the big eyeballs to hide the fact that they're old?" asked my friend Kat as we were crossing Hollywood Blvd. on our way to the Henry Fonda, where San Francisco's (or is it Louisiana's?) best known mus ... More >>

Barbara T. Smith: “Old Shoes: Performance Relics 1968-1975” at The Box

Martin Kersels: Big Frame

The Other Martin K

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

Animation sparks magic in these bodies of art

Blurbs of Paradise

What to do in L.A., May 23-29

The Getty's Video Blockbuster

"California Video" gets all contemporary on us

Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

Playing with the camera

Must See Art

Guy de Cointet at Overduin and Kite; Amy Sarkisian at Sister Gallery

Pittmania '07

Lari’s prime rib

Corpsefucker Makes Good

Up the hill backwards with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy

The Newcomer

The Hammer’s Gary Garrels on crossing boundaries and art-world DMZs

Ferocity in Two Flavors

Johanna Went, Danial Nord

Shine On, You Crazy Loft-Liver

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Must See Art

Paul McCarthy lecture at the UCLA Hammer Museum and “Sick-Amour” by Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter

Must See Art

Performance/Film/Video at Daniel Hug and Keltie Ferris, “Boy Genius” at Kinkead Contemporary

To Live and Die (But Not Show) in L.A.

Jason Rhoades, 1965–2006

8 Angelenos on ArtReview's International Power 100 List

8 Angelenos on ArtReview’s International Power 100 List

State Of Emergence

Undiscovered cracks in the art-world infrastructure: a catalog

The Great Unknown

A Mullican stew

Tofu, Smut and “dunt dunnnt, dunt dunnt”

The End of Donald Kuspit?

The opening of his "California New Old Masters"

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

The McCarthy Era

The institutionalization of shrub fucking

Galleria

Tim Hawkinson, Charles LaBelle, John Divola, Tim Ebner, Shirley Tse, more

Sue Spaid: Used & Amused

Plus, Martin Durazo and Eileen Cowin

Kids' Stuff

It's a sensation!

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

The Charles Ray Experience

At MOCA and beyond

Critical Mass

From Johanna Went to Madame Tussaud: 20 years of arts coverage

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect