Robert Williams

La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Billy Shire's Pop Retro Punk Art Mecca, Opens 25th Anniversary Show. But Don't Call it 'Lowbrow'

From comic book and hot rod culture to folk art and religious iconography to cartoons and retro pop imagery -- and let's not forget punk rock -- the "lowbrow" art movement has many inspirations. Billy Shire's La Luz De Jesus Gallery is widely recognized as a seminal hub for talents whose works fall ... More >>

Best Silver Anniversary

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Heroes & Villains, Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho's New Book of Badass Photos of Street Artists, Graphic Novelists, and Everyone in Between

Wills/ChoNatalia Fabia, painter​ Check out our slideshow of photos from the book: "Heroes & Villains: Los Angeles Painters, Street Artists and Graphic Novelists" In looking at the portraiture that encompasses the sublime new coffee table book Heroes & Villains by Tatiana Wills and Roman Ch ... More >>

Dictator Watch: Teodorin Obiang, African Royalty in Malibu, Orders Yacht Worth 3 Times His Country's Health Education Budget

BossipJust another day in the life of Teodorin Obiang​"I've been very lucky in business ... and I like to live well." -- Teodorin Obiang We mostly stick to small-fry targets like West Hollywood politicians who green-light towering concrete atrocities and Los Angeles mayors who green-light six ... More >>

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Robert Williams: Hyena at a Dog Show

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Juxtapalooza

The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

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Retna, Chaz, Axis at Zero One Gallery

Huge columns painted by Retna stood throughout Zero One's downtown gallery. The multi-artist show Dysmorphic Visualization Syndrome, opened Saturday night, Jan. 19th. Part of the Con Art series by Chaz Bojorquez. The D.V.S. show runs until the end of February. More info at Zero One's website ... More >>

Art Utopia

Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber have it made — and so do their assistants

Some Paintings

The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial

No Sympathy for You

Splitting town was one thing, but now, is indie icon Long Gone John really swapping his label for some llamas?

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Irving Norman, Healing

Malibu Bad Neighbor

A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum

Kid Stuff

Practical jokes and comics: the season’s best art books

Welcome to Boondoggle Unified

One man's five-year odyssey to expose waste in L.A.’s $10 million quake-proofing program

Dutch Auction

Lowbrow relics on the block; RIP, Fausto Vitello

Pumping Sunshine

Aaron Rose’s infinite quest

The Wacko Phenomenon

Billy Shire and La Luz de Jesus

Pictures From the Unibrow Revolution

Or, how outlaw art went mainstream

What Would Jesus Paint?

Nightranger

Toontown Terrorist

Robert Williams and the beauty of the un-arts

Photo Essay

Timothy Leary’s Endless Party

Artifacts of a public nuisance in Lightspace Gallery’s '23 Drawings'

Seduction of the Degenerate

Rebel Visions and the underground-comics revolution

Juxtapoz & Juxtapozeurs

At the intersection of Art and art

Portraits of Obsession

Photographs by Max S. Gerber

Objects of Desire

Truth seeking in Laguna

I See Lowbrow People

SHAG and Mark Ryden included. Plus, Terry Schoonhoven and Burnett Miller, RIP

The Ghosts of Dogtown

A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules

Homer and Ray

Illustration as social sculpture

Stop Making Sensory

Edited by Kateri Butler

Countermythologist

Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, 1932 - 2001

Scopophilial Pleasures

Dave Hickey and Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Williams and Leni Riefenstahl, James Hayward and more

The Westside of the Eastside

La Luz de Jesus, Pink and Circle Elephant Art

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

Sugar 'N' Spikes

Captain Beefheart: The Mirror Man as mere man

Third Ear

Bossa Nova Hunchback Corpses on the Moon

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