Gwynedd Stuart

Not all dads are the same, but, c'mon, all dads born in the wake of WWII who grew up on cowboy shoot-'em-ups on TV have a lot in common. Next time said father figure visits L.A., it would be advisable to take him to the Autry Museum of the American......

Photographer Maggie West is rethinking who's worthy of being immortalized in stained glass. In an artist statement, she writes, "Throughout history, most women depicted in stained glass artwork are saints. The majority of these saints were virgins, many of whom suffered gruesome violent deaths rather than lose their 'purity.' ......

L.A.'s art lovers are probably feeling equal parts excited and overwhelmed by Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the massive Getty initiative that places Latin American and Latinx art in dialogue with L.A. at 70 institutions throughout Southern California. From an exhibit of photos by "radical" Latin American women to a celebration......

In a number of presumed self-portraits, Carlos Almaraz paints himself as a sort of half-man, half-jaguar figure. It's an icon straight out of Mesoamerican mythology, explains Howard Fox, who has spent the past several years curating LACMA's current Almaraz retrospective, "Playing With Fire." "The jaguar was able to pass freely......

At noon on Sept. 1, tickets to Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, coming to the Broad on Oct. 21, went on sale on the museum's site, and it became a less-than-pleasant experience (which you can read more about here). Many people entered the virtual queue early only to walk away......

When L.A.-based sculptor Thomas Houseago's eldest daughter went off to college in Edinburgh earlier this summer, she brought along her bass guitar. It's a practice she was encouraged to pick up by none other than Flea, who besides being one of the most famous bass players in the world, co-founded......

In the pages of Max Martin and Carlos Morera's book, Xerophile (Hat & Beard Press, $65) are images of cactuses that look like overstuffed cushions with patterns as beautiful as any upholstery. Some of the cactuses tower over grown men who've scaled ladders to examine them more closely....