Robert Irwin

Art About Tuba Thieves

A Documentary About Music's Greatest Backup Singers, Bred in the Churches of South L.A.

Morgan Neville initially interviewed about 50 backup singers for his new documentary on the subject, Twenty Feet From Stardom, but the one who first convinced him he was onto something was Darlene Love. Love did backup work for the Beach Boys, Elvis and Sonny and Cher, among others, and also sang ... More >>

Modern-day mythmaker

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Bartering for Paintings

Future and past feel like they're on a collision course this week -- especially in William Leavitt's deceptively mundane drawings of suburbia gone awry and Dennis Hoekstra's and Noah Olmsted's ghostly, garish re-envisioning of the Pacific Design Center. 5. Modern-day mythmaker Charles Garabedian di ... More >>

WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, Which Celebrated Hot Tubs as a Metaphor in '70s Venice, Gets a New Book (NSFW)

It was in 1977, in a bathroom in Berkeley, that architect Mark Mack put his body on the line for his fellow man. As a photographer stood by to record the action, a naked Mack gingerly lowered himself, ass first, into a bathtub. The shoot had a simple objective: Demonstrate how a man could enter a b ... More >>

Chasing Humbert Humbert

Art With the Dinosaurs

Chouinard, the Legendary Art School, Launches Virtual Library

Sometimes stories start simply: In 1999, Dave Tourje, an artist who supported himself through construction, purchased a house. He bought it for many of the reasons other people buy their cribs, but what it wound up giving him was a calling. The 1907 residence had been the South Pasadena home of Nelb ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Art With Dinosaurs to Relay Racing

This week, the stories behind the art are at least as interesting as the art itself, like the one about a small insurance company that started a big art collection, and the photographer who documented Diamond Bar. 5. Anonymous Letters Odeya Nini, an experimental composer whose music moves between ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/26-9/30

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And when you manage to get into the place, the dim blackness of the dining room -- formerly Tulipe, Jozu and the sushi bar Hamasaku -- flickers like something from a Robert Irwin installation, a re ... More >>

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More Ink for Michael Voltaggio's Ink

Los Angeles is the land where the celebrity chef was born, where Q ratings ruled, where journalists first learned to ask, "What do you cook on your night off?'' But L.A. has never seen a phenomenon like Michael Voltaggio, whose snarling passion, antihero good looks and devotion to his chef brother h ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Eight Reasons Why L.A. Art Is the Way It Is

Eli Broad: Blame My Wife

Michael Govan: To Understand L.A. Art, I Went to Italy

Robert Irwin's Getty Sculpture Black on White: How Do You Install a 40,000-Pound Black Granite Sculpture?

Sophie DuvernoyRobert Irwin's 2011 sculpture Black on White, being installed at the Getty.​ What does it take to install a 40,000 pound sculpture in one of L.A.'s most inaccessible museums? Especially when you have no idea what it's supposed to look like? This was the Getty Center's big challe ... More >>

Lynda Benglis at MOCA: Conceptual Art Meets Dildoes (NSFW)

Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, © Lynda Benglis, DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009Lynda Benglis, Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970, Life Magazine​ In 1974, Lynda Benglis ran an advertisement in Artforum that caused five editors to protest and pack up: she photographed herself n ... More >>

What's New, Pussycat?

Movie Reviews: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Postal, War, Inc.

Also, The Cool School, Refusenik and more

Cracked Egg: BCAM's Inaugural Show

Hello ... Wrong

LACMA + BCAM = A FUTURE

The not-so-little engine that could

Light and (Social) Space

Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin and James Turrell bring us closer to illumination — and to ourselves

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Finish Fetish

Crucifixions and Californians

Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

Our critics’ guide to the very best of LAFF

The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

Must See Art

Reclaiming the Air

Ah, the memories of sweet orange blossoms in downtown L.A.

Hurricane of the Eye

Artist Tim Hawkinson’s maelstrom of twisted fun

Reality Show

Lawrence Weschler on the very beautiful truth

Stuff

The sculptures of Lynn Aldrich, the paintings of Dennis Hollingsworth and the puppets of Anaphoria

The Ace is Wild

The Doug Chrismas story

The Endless Summer Show

Surf's up, down, all over Laguna

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

Cycling With Foxy

Things I learned on high

The Art of Dining

Museums try to please the eye, and the palette

Show and Tell

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

Making Money

The conceptual art of J.S.G. Boggs.

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

Calamity of Excellence

Lawrence Weschler laments the loss of journalism that asks for nothing but our attention