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Art out of leftovers

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cereal in Balloons

This week, one artist pays homage to hits of the 1960s, another pays homage to a discount store and a group of photographers make images too unwieldy to hang on a wall. 5. Jazz without music Free-jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor has a deep, mysterious voice, and his readings sound like his play ... More >>

7 Things to Do Under $7 in L.A. This Week

Bibliophiles, engine-loathing cyclists and fans of absurd but beautiful Technicolor art can probably leave their wallets at home this week, at least if they're looking for something fun to do.

Bedazzle This!

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 >>

What Happens When You Look at One Painting for an Hour?

Seven years ago, artist Nuttaphol Ma spent three hours staring at a painting he hated. He was working at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and was assigned to stand guard over a particularly vulnerable work. "It was full of things you'd find at Michael's -- lots of glitter, beads, junk," says Ma, whose ... More >>

Stephen Keene at Santa Monica Museum of Art: A One-Man Art Marathon

Art Marathon by Stephen Keene, 2011, Santa Monica Museum of ArtStephen Keene, standing behind his row of serial paintings​ Stephen Keene is a strange character: he identifies much more with the archetype of the worker than the artist. Known for his amazing ability to produce masses of work, a ... More >>

Marco Brambilla at Santa Monica Museum of Art

"The Dark Lining" heralds the future of video installation

Marco Brambilla's 3-D Installations Herald the Future of Video Art in "The Dark Lining" at Santa Monica Museum of Art

Marco BrambillaMarco Brambilla's Evolution (Megaplex)​ This week in LA Weekly's print edition, Holly Willis explores Marco Brambilla's two 3-D video installations in his show "The Dark Lining" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and how 3-D will impact the art world. She writes: Those two 3-D ... More >>

Strategies for 'Incognito' at the Santa Monica Museum: Pick Your Favorite or Find the Ruscha?

Gabriel Cifarelli​ "Incognito," which was held Saturday night in its seventh year as an exhibition and fundraiser for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, offers an enjoyable blind taste test of contemporary art. Well-known artists displayed side-by-side with emerging artists -- equally sized, equ ... More >>

DONKEY SEE, DONKEY DO

Top 10 Local Museum Store Holiday Food Gifts

Fowler Museum StoreSalt And Pepper Shakers From The Fowler Museum Store​Holiday gifts for food-centric friends are tricky. You want something unique that isn't already lining their overstuffed kitchen cabinets. Sure, those Paula Deen silicone spatulas from Target are tempting, if only for the ... More >>

Burri My Art in the Hollywood Hills

"Combustione: Alberto Burri and America" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

Andrew Lord at Santa Monica Museum of Art

FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ACADEMY VOTERS

FRIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art

WHEEL ART

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

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 >>

Bagels in the Dustbin: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl

Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's secret history of Jewish-American music

Best in Show 2008

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings!*

What to do in L.A., December 5-11

Martin Kersels

Falling Hard

No Strings Attached: Puppetry at SMMOA; Kori Newkirk at PMCA

Animation sparks magic in these bodies of art

Blurbs of Paradise

What to do in L.A., May 23-29

Elsa Longhauser

Collector of ideas

SMMOA and LACE Put the Fun in Fund-raisers

Going ... going ... incognito

Must See Art

Benjamin Butler’s “New Trees” and Sharon Levy’s “The Wood”

Must See Art

Kim Fisher at China Art Objects Galleries and “Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake, 1972–1978” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Must See Art

“Last Resort” by Mark Mann at Taylor De Cordoba and auction time

Captain Hook and His Big Organ

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Nuevo Cool

Tijuana art in Santa Monica

Reverb and Renown

Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico in Santa Monica

Alvaro Siza

Dark Victory

Designing a museum exhibition

What Does Santa Monica Taste Like?

Witches of Abstraction

Emma, Hilma and Agnes Visualize the Unseeable

Let’s Get Small

Back to the future with Laurie Anderson & Ed Ruscha

Getting Out of Town

Terry Allen and his chicken-fried Gesamtkunstwerk

Ranking the Museums

The Collectors

Rosamond Purcell and Olaus Worm, together in time

Slushed in 2002

Edited by Kateri Butler

Cavepainting

Hey, it’s their title, not ours

Ancient Grease

Edited by Kateri Butler

Art & Commerce

At an intersection near you

Redux: Mapplethorpe’s Moment

Dropped Bombs

Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown and Armand Assante On the Beach; James Woods on the Mapplethorpe front line

Leisure alternatives for those who covet the indirect ray