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Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Restaged Train Robbery

This week, an artist turns two galleries and a storage unit into pseudo-sets for a remake of a Western, and 29 L.A. painters show in a former downtown bank. 5. Finally finished "Little Ellie, what have I told you about self-expression? ... It goes nowhere," Stalin tells artist Eleanor Antin in Anti ... More >>

What Was Contemporary Art? A New Book Asks the Question

No matter how much new art continues to appear, an age-old question remains: what makes something art? No one knows that question better than art historian, author and professor Richard Meyer. The Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University recently released a new book ... More >>

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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 >>

Aaron Axelrod's Music and Painting Performances Light Up Downtown's Vortex Dome

Ray Bradbury-Themed Art Exhibit Opens in a Gallery Located Where the Sci-Fi Master Once Lived

Ray Bradbury, the fantasy-fiction mastermind who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and really did believe man would make it to Mars sooner than later, moved to L.A. from Illinois in 1934 as a teenager. His family first lived around Western Avenue. Then, in 1942, they moved into a Craftsman bungalow at 670 South ... More >>

Best Art I Saw All Week: Das Institut's Abstract Paintings at MOCA

The exhibit "The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol," which is up at MOCA's Grand Ave location through August 20, is a big, breezy show that borders on eye candy. On balance, it succeeds at making a case for taking an interest in contemporary abstract act -- but it's not all that clear what ... More >>

Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York

Jena Ardell​Who: Nirvana Where: SiriusXM's studios in New York City When: September 24, 2011 Better than... bands inspired by Nirvana. Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, an album most people feel changed the landscape of music. To celebrate, SiriusXM satellite radio ... More >>

'Post 9/11' Exhibit at OHWOW Gallery: What 21st Century Art of Rebellion Looks Like

Courtesy of Team GalleryRyan McGinley: Taylor (Rushing River), 2011​ When Osama bin Laden was killed in May and young people, "the Millennials," gathered at the White House, Lafayette Park and Ground Zero in a surprising burst of euphoria, their optimism was unnerving. Did they really imagine ... More >>

Paul Thek at the Hammer Museum and the History of Meat Art

Nightranger: Step Into Liquid

Luminous Dames at OCMA

Georgia, Agnes, Agnes and Florence

Lothar Schmitz, Lauren Bon

Kids Today: A Harmony Korine Retrospective

Cinefamily charts the evolution of writer/director "enfant terrible"

Organic Matters

Corina Gamma, Eraldo Mauro, April Street

Bust, Carnage, Say You Love Satan

Also: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The $4 Million Giveaway and more

Bust

Feats of Clay, Minimalist Efforts

“Material Affinities” at Fisher; “Monochrome Painting” at Cardwell Jimmerson

Must See Art

Elaine Reichek, Glossed in Translation and Kendell Carter, Hommie/Homey

Real Fakes

Richard Pettibone and F. Scott Hess in Laguna

Letters

Darker Than Night

L.A.’s big blue mirror

History of Smog

Waiting for the End of the World

Huggy Shirts

Geometric Figuring

The schizophrenic dance of art and math

Searching for Harold

The challenges of making shit up

Valhalla on a Tank of Gas

Color Theory

“Fade” to black

The Devils' Advocates

How Arkansas’ West Memphis Three went from convicts to L.A.’s cause célèbre

Dandyland

Polaroids from Silver Lake

Ghosts in the Machine

When you're lost in El Centro's immigrant detention center you may be lost for good

Dear God!

Is the cathedral desecrating the Virgin of Guadalupe?

The Small Plate

How the little things make a meal

The Driving Concept: Cut

Devil's Bargain

Elvis Yoko Anna Nicole

Rage Chronicles: The Girl With the Most Cake

Readings: Laughing With Wen Ho Lee

Hurry Sunrise

Hollywood’s last act before daybreak

About Time

Bitchen video art at the Hammer

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of “Made in California,” part two

Closures, Openings

Dan Bernier, Kori Newkirk, Alice Könitz, Colin Cook, Alexis Smith, more

The Stationary Cruise

Hostage at a theme-park hotel

X-Small

30 years of little art in Laguna

Reefer Madness

A weekend in "Vansterdam"

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Fresh Paint

Nancy Evans and Yek at POST, Steve Hurd at Dan Bernier

Fresh Paint

Nancy Evans and Yek at POST, Steve Hurd at Dan Bernier

Taxi Driver

Fares to Remember