Performance Art

Stephen Glassman Wants to Create Billboards Made of Trees

The helicopter hangs in the air over downtown L.A. for what seems like a very long time, its whirring blades adding the slight chill of potential alarm over the otherwise quiet Sunday night streets. The airship hovers at around a hundred fifty feet, it's powerful bluish spotlight illuminating the ro ... More >>

Karen Finley Channels Dead Celebrities for Perform Chinatown, But Event Fails to Add Up to a Satisfying Whole

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Dance for Art's Sake

Why cARTel's 'Family Forest' Theatrical Event Is L.A.'s Best Third Date Idea

So you've been on a couple dates and you're digging this chick/dude's vibe. You've done drinks. You've done dinner. Now it's time to impress them with your knowledge of the LA indie art scene, and get a little more personal while you're at it. Lucky for you, the multimedia arts ensemble cARTel has ... More >>

What is Performance Art?

Are Lady Gaga and Mitt Romney performance artists? The mainstream press has said so, and there's not much to stop them. As an artistic practice, performance art is what happens when an event or action is framed for an audience. Which means it could be anything, really. So what distinguishes self-awa ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week: From MOCA's Controversial Gala to Christmas in Chinatown

Courtesy Cirrus GalleryDoug Edge's Pure Air Hope Chest, made of cast resin in 1971​ Like summer group shows, holiday group shows are hit-and-miss. But two good ones are up right now, one in Inglewood and one downtown, and both mix barely heard-of artists with those who have been around. 5. M ... More >>

Harry Gamboa of Asco: How A Chicano Performance Group Turned Oppression into Dangerous Fun

LACMA's show "Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective 1972-1987," highlighting the famed performance art group, closed on Sunday. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of Asco's original members, grew up in East L.A. and continues to work as a performance artist and writer. By Harry Gamboa, Jr., as told to Cat ... More >>

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Bert Rodriguez at OHWOW Gallery: Prankster Artist Cooks Toilet Pudding with Mom and Unveils Film making sh*t up

On Saturday night, in the all-white, otherwise empty space of OHWOW gallery, Bert Rodriguez, a conceptual prankster widely known for his boyish charm and big heart, did a collaborative piece with his mother in which they cooked and served a traditional Cuban meal of rice, beans, picadilllo (a tomato ... More >>

I Can't Believe They Pay Me For This Shit

Heather Cassils Gets Ripped for LACE Performance Art Show

Pacific Standard Time: Timeline 1945-1980

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

Barbara T. Smith: How Divorce Causes Performance Art

Pacific Standard Time: Celebrating the Freaks and Weirdos of L.A. Art

Freak Machine

Perform Chinatown Festival: Vikings, Bunnies, Unicorns, Masturbation, an Emperor With (Literally) No Clothes and More

Catherine WagleyJohn Kilduff (a.k.a. Mr Let's Paint) painting a character actor who appeared as "The Emperor with No Clothes"​ Vikings, oversized bunnies, an itinerant matchmaker, a painting instructor doubling as a life coach and running on a treadmill, an impromptu dinner party, a woman mast ... More >>

Roger Guenveur Smith's Juan and John

Music to Pick Up/Download

That Alien Feeling

Let Them Eat Cupcakes: Elizabeth Tobias' Cupcake Installation Art

Jennifer DozierElizabeth Tobias in downtown L.A.​ When Marie Antoinette was told that the people of France were starving, she supposedly responded, "Let them eat cake." Now, thanks to Los Angeles-based performance artist Elizabeth Tobias, the Queen of France's oft-quoted phrase has yet another ... More >>

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League of Imaginary Scientists

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

WHO'S YOUR TIA?

My Barbarian

Intimacies

Chesapeake

I SCREAM. YOU SCREAM. WE ALL SCREAM AND SCREAM SOME MORE

Proud, Out and About

EVERYTHING'S BETTER IN SANTA MONICA!

LA People 2009: Renaissance Man — Ruben Guevara

Live Artillery

The Branding of Allan Kaprow: Anti-Warhol, Anti-Star

"This is really happening"

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

Fuck the DNA

The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV

Corpsefucker Makes Good

Up the hill backwards with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy

Who Are the Black Sheep Now?

NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

Ten Cents a Performance Art

How to classify La Ribot?

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

Summer Calendar

The View from Stage Left

Take Me to the River

L.A.’s hopes for a new park

Critical Mass

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

Je Voudrais Del Taco

Orlan goes to the desert

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect

The Low Life