Whitney Museum of American Art

We Do Art to Stay Sane

Few artists do it for the cash. But the art world's pressure to brand, package and sell yourself and your work can be overwhelming. "Artifacts of a Life Lived by the Living (To Live)," which opened this past weekend at the Craft and Folk Art Museum and is curated by contemporary artist Chris Johans ... More >>

How Artist Hector Zamora Built a House on Top of Shopping Carts

Relentlessly useless

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 5 Vum, Esben and the Witch THE BOOTLEG There's plenty of the spirit of New York synth-punk pioneers Suicide in minimal L.A. synth-wave trio Vum on their new single "I Will Return" -- and is that song title a promise or a threat? This is menacing stuff, built on bare-bones electronic b ... More >>

Artist Fritz Haeg Wants You to Contribute to a Giant Rug

Few artists ask visitors to contribute to their work, but Los Angeles-based artist Fritz Haeg thrives off the idea. His complex project, entitled Domestic Integrities Part A03, beckons visitors to become a part of an artistic undertaking -- the continued production of a traveling rug. Starting to ... More >>

Michael Asher, Famed CalArts Professor and Conceptual Artist, Honored at Memorial Service

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The mood was one of respect and reflection last Friday, Dec. 7, as hundreds of friends, colleagues, student and teachers gathered in the Main Gallery at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia to celebrate and remember the life of long-time ... More >>

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Karen Finley Channels Dead Celebrities for Perform Chinatown, But Event Fails to Add Up to a Satisfying Whole

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.,' the City's First Biennial, Is a Winner, Despite its Vastness

Following directly on the heels of Pacific Standard Time, Made in L.A. refocuses our attention on the present moment by serving as the first installment in an ongoing, biennial survey of contemporary art production in Los Angeles. It's a hugely ambitious undertaking, but at the same time, its execut ... More >>

Nomadic dandy

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Alien at MOCA

The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to glamour. 5. Clothing-optional fantasies If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his ... More >>

Martha Stewart meets a hoarder

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock and Martha Stewart Meeting a Hoarder

This week's list includes a tribute, disguise, displacement, hoarder and megalith. It runs the gamut, in other words. 5. Banana face Urs Fischer likes obstructions and disguises. Better yet are obstructions that double as disguises. For his exhibition at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, he's blown up vin ... More >>

Emily Lacy Raises Political Awareness -- and Bail Money

When Occupy L.A. was raided by police in late November, Emily Lacy saw lots of her friends arrested. To raise money for their bail, the 32-year-old Alhambra folk musician performed a show at Machine Project gallery in Echo Park. It was all part of what she called her "Occupy Music" events, Lacy says ... More >>

Bert Rodriguez at OHWOW Gallery: Prankster Artist Cooks Toilet Pudding with Mom and Unveils Film making sh*t up

On Saturday night, in the all-white, otherwise empty space of OHWOW gallery, Bert Rodriguez, a conceptual prankster widely known for his boyish charm and big heart, did a collaborative piece with his mother in which they cooked and served a traditional Cuban meal of rice, beans, picadilllo (a tomato ... More >>

An Experimental Video Smorgasbord

REDCAT's Artist Theater Program

Amanda Ross-Ho: Trick-and-Treater

Mark Bradford: Hometown Hero

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Robert Mallary at the Box

Kathryn Andrews, Heather Cook, Lesley Vance, Lisa Williamson at David Kordansky Gallery

LA People 2009: Urban Redeveloper — Edgar Arceneaux

Joan Snyder at SolwayJones Gallery

Free Skating: Amanda Ross-Ho's Fourth-Dimensional Axel Jump

At Cherry and Martin, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless

Record Reviews: Lucky Dragons, Love and The Bug

LACMA East: "Phantom Sightings" Chronicles the Rise of Post-Chicanoism

Must See Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson at Honor Fraser; Christian Cummings, Michael Decker and Marie Johnston at High Energy Constructs

The Theresa Duncan Tragedy

A writer–game designer and her boyfriend commit suicide, and a façade falls away

Back in the USSR

“Pravda” at Disney Concert Hall

Personal Choices

15 L.A. artists in “Eden’s Edge”

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

He Walks the Line

Chris Johanson finds the space between humor, hatred and love

Jamie Land

L.A. for New York

The Whitney Biennial screening room

Moving Pictures

The layered images of Pat O’Neill, L.A. icon

Cherries on Top

Sister show puts sculpture on a pedestal

Young, Dumb and Full of Cumin

Pettibon in the Sky

The Global Effect

Artists from around the world look at America

Can L.A. Get Beyond Cool?

Curator/critic Michael Duncan thinks so, and he’s got a show to prove it

The Political Canvas

Daniel Martinez, God Bless Americana Part 2, the Barricades of the Federal District

The Noise of Art

Audio visuals

Godawfulism

And other fabulous new L.A. painting trends

Rugoff by the Bay

Tactical Embarrassment

The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark

Biennial Man

Doug Aitken and his world of video

Blue Chips

Joni Mitchell, Martin Mull, Herb Alpert

The New York Century

It's no sensation

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)

Daughter of the American Revolution

Karen Finley goes to the beach