Raymond Pettibon

MOCA Web Series Chronicles the Art of Punk

The logo is simple. Four heavy black bars sitting side by side — one up, one down, one up, one down — creating a wave effect: a black flag flying in the wind of discontent. Few logos are as universally recognized and revered as the one Raymond Pettibon designed for L.A. punk legends Blac ... More >>

Incognito at Santa Monica Museum Hides Which Artists Did Which Paintings. But a Few People Can Tell...

In Incognito, a 1997 romance that posed as a thriller, the Jason Patric who once ran off with Julia Roberts stars as an art forger. The forger naturally has to be "incognito" because he's a wanted man (he's forged a Rembrandt, which is never a good idea). He discovers he's been dating an "incognito" ... More >>

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers - MOCA at the Geffen - 1/28/12

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers MOCA at the Geffen 1-28-12 (Much) Better Than ... hearing many of these same songs butchered on punk rock karaoke night at the local sports bar. Of course there's something oddly oxymoronic about a museum inviting punk rock bands over to play (albeit safely outside o ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to See This Week, from Wallace Berman Films to Anti-Cute to a Show Inspired by a Bigelow Tea

Courtesy Regen Projects and MOCA Los AngelesSue Williams' 1992 painting "The Art World Can Suck My Proverbial Dick"​ Most exhibitions on this week's list are the work of youngish artists, but not the one by Sue Williams, who's been around since the 1980s. It's her first solo show in this city ... More >>

Larry Bell Gets a Restaurant, Larry's, Where the Opening was a Pacific Standard Time Reunion

Tibby RothmanThe man himself, artist Larry Bell (l.) and art critic Peter Frank (r.) at the recent artists' party for Larry's, a new restaurant in Venice​ Almost all you need to know about artist Larry Bell is written on a wall at Larry's, the recently-opened restaurant that bears his name, li ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Timeline 1945-1980

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

Sex, Lies and Deep-Sea Surfing

New Crystal Antlers Video: "Summer Solstice" (New Album Coming In July)

Long Beach band Crystal Antlers have decided to greet the longest day of the year by releasing the video to a track appropriately entitled "Summer Soltice", off their new album Two Way Mirror. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for Crystal Antlers. Their last (and first) full-length, Tentacles, was ... More >>

Page Two: Cerebral Ballzy Are Brainy, Nuts

Breaking: OFF! Plays FREE Midnight Show at the Echoplex Tonight

Raymond Pettibon​ From the EchoLA and FYFFest:

Foo Fighters' Secret Shows: NEWER UPDATE Next Show Was Going to Be at the Echo/Echoplex, Keith Morris' OFF! Was to Be Opening Act But Apparently It's Been Cancelled: Original Guess The Troubadour Also Being Mentioned

​ [UPDATE 2/11/2011: It goes like this: Tomorrow (Saturday)'s night Secret Foo Fighters show was going to be at the Echo (or the Echoplex) and the opening act was going to be the Keith Morris/Raymond Pettibon LA punk supergroup OFF!, but it apparently has been cancelled due to the fact that, ... More >>

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

NIGHTRANGER: Maulings and Mohawks at the Movies

Eagle Rock Music Fest Flies High With Low End Theory DJs, Pay The Man, Ollin and Egyptian Lover

Lina Lecaro ​[For more exclusive images, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "Eagle Rock Music Festival 2010"] We're surely not the only LA native who wistfully recalled Sunset Junction Street Fairs of yore while stomping along Colorado Blvd. at the Eagle Rock Music Fest Saturday evening. Like ... More >>

New OFF! Video Features Keith Morris, Raymond Pettibon, and Skateboarding Madness

New OFF! Video Features Keith Morris, Raymond Pettibon, and Skateboarding Madness

LA Punk Supergroup OFF! (Featuring Members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Etc.) Signs with Vice Records

Raymond Pettibon will provide art for OFF!'s Vice Records debut​We previewed in our print section a few months ago the live presentation of OFF!, the Keith Morris-led quartet featuring members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Burning Brides and Earthless, and the art of Raymond Pettibo ... More >>

Tom Patchett: The Collector/Exhibitor/Vendor

Nightranger: In Bloom

Off! That Outsider Feeling

Black Flag's Keith Morris and iconic artist Raymond Pettibon reignite the DIY punk fuse

Got a Black Flag Bars Tattoo? Get It Photographed for Art Book This Weekend

Barred for life? Black Flag's four bars, that is? Philadelphia writer Stewart Ebersole invites tattooed fans of the legendary hardcore band inked with their famous Raymond Pettibon-designed logo to be a part of his upcoming book Barred for Life (estimated publication in 2010). ****More hardcore th ... More >>

Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, Daniel Johnston, Ron English Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors at Bergamot Station

View more photos in the Rock, Paper, Scissor slideshow. Timothy NorrisOne in Ron English's series of kids dressed like Kiss This was a really cool weekend for those of us interested in the convergence of music and art, and whether some of the better-known musician/artists can stand alongside maste ... More >>

SMMoA on Sunday: Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, Raymond Pettibon, others Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors Opening

FROM FRIDAY: Seriously. Take John Payne's advice below. Go to this. First of all, Animal Collective is sold out, and all your friends who will be there will be bragging in tomorrow about the AMAZING SHOW they saw at the Troubadour. You, however, will have a trump card. Background: Mike Watt, Ray ... More >>

Rock Picks: Everest, Mumiy Troll, Busta Rhymes

Also, Faun Fables, Chris Darrow tribute, Allen Toussaint and others

Raymond Pettibon at Regen Projects II

Joe Carducci's Book Enter Naomi Recounts History of SST Records

Recalling label's photographer Naomi Petersen, rock critic looks back at his roots in the L.A. punk explosion of the 1980s

Josh White

Documenter

SMMOA and LACE Put the Fun in Fund-raisers

Going ... going ... incognito

Must See Art

Don Van Vliet and LAXART’s benefit auction

Must See Art

“Other Scenes” group show and “The Void Show” by William Pope.l

Must See Art

Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ’Round) Group Show and Pieter Hugo’s Looking Aside

Variety Show

Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done

Black Cats, Soccermoms and Bisquits

I Art the '80s

Pettibon, Ocampo, Foulkes, Rath and Deen at Track 16; Herman at INMO

Comic Genius

Overcoming the funny pages’ inferiority complex

Little Nemo To Jimbo

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Triumph of the Ill

“Beautiful Losers” in Newport Beach

Pettibon in the Sky

The Devils' Advocates

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

Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick

Edited by Kateri Butler

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler

Objects of Desire

Truth seeking in Laguna

Homer and Ray

Illustration as social sculpture

A 12-Step Program in Self-Reliance

How L.A.’s hardcore pioneers made it through their early years

Between the Lines

Dennis Cooper talks to Raymond Pettibon about literature, emotion, the punk years and the ideal way to respond to his art

Commence

Bounty

A big weekend of openings

Trippy Guru & Tipper, Too

William Wiley and Mrs. Gore, plus a Dutch, Hawkinsonian pop-conceptualist

Critical Mass

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