Sam Francis

Sorting Through Sam Francis' Paintings at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Clarinet Imitating a Cricket

This week, four decades' worth of a prolific abstract expressionist's work appears in Pasadena and a vacant East L.A. lot becomes an exhibition space. 5. Nine-day habitat Byron Westbrook's brief exhibition "Interval/Habitat" at Human Resources is meant to serve as a stage for the audience members ... More >>

Japanese Flower Arranging: Live Onstage!

See also: *Takashi Murakami's New Culver City Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week The North American Sogetsu Seminar is like the Olympics of flower arranging (though, of course, only for North America). Held once every four years in a different North ... More >>

Santa Monica Auctions Says Goodbye, as Bergamot Station's C Building Will Be Demolished for Expo Line

Johnny Cash's lyric "I hear the train a comin'" best captures the mood at the Santa Monica Auctions farewell event, held this past weekend, June 9 and 10. Due to the planned extension of the MTA's Expo Line, the entire C Building at Bergamot Station -- home to Track 16, The Robert Berman Gallery and ... More >>

Eli Broad: Blame My Wife

FAIRY-y Tales

Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar

Movie Reviews: Living in Emergency, Micmacs, The Painter Sam Francis

Also, Agora, Burzynski, Ondine and more

Machine Project's LACMA Takeover: From Bizarre Idea, To Reality, To Book

​Hey, remember when Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art? And they had that glowing unicorn under the Japanese Pavilion? And Holly Vesecky made that replica of Sam Francis's painting, but all out of flowers? And there were weird people playing brass instruments in the ... More >>

Flower Power: Bend It, Don’t Break It

The Succulent Cat: Holly Vesecky's Foliage-Covered Feline Makes Brides Happy and Chia Pets Jealous

Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I've known her, she's done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers. Quite by accident, I saw this cat covered in succu ... More >>

In Surprise Move, Moca Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

In Surprise Move, MOCA Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

An unconfirmed report suggests that the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees is ready to turn control of the embattled institution over to a small non-profit art space, Machine Project. "Basically, the board doesn't know what to do," said a source with inside information. "This is a Hai ... More >>

LACMA Deconstructed

Machine Project rethinks what a museum is for

Shape Shifters

Sam Francis, Shauna Peck, Melinda Smith Altshuler

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Just another perfect day

Alternate Routes

Charts, maps and routes at the Sam Francis Gallery

Letters

The Ace is Wild

The Doug Chrismas story

Sam & Dave

The politics of mixology

The Good Stuff

Doug Harvey's Top 10