Liz Ohanesian

Ana Bagayan is an artist whose work has hung on the walls of galleries like Thinkspace in Culver City and FB69 in Munster, Germany. Her pieces also hang on the walls of children's bedrooms. Once, a man told her that he had been buying her drawings of extraterrestrial characters for......

David Tracy describes buying Lego bricks as similar to dealing with a commodities exchange, as opposed to a typical hunt for toys. "It's more like if you were to go to Chicago Board of Trade to buy however much copper you wanted to buy," says the Lego sculptor. "You would......

On Saturday afternoon, four tattoo artists went to work inside Little Tokyo's Japanese American National Museum for the opening of "Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in the Modern World." They spent hours taking ink and needles to flesh, adding to the large, detailed illustrations that already marked their client's bodies. Crowds......

Jared Andrew Schorr's petrie dishes hang on a wall inside Eagle Rock boutique Leanna Lin's Wonderland. The small cases contain colorful, paper cut patterns. There is a dish filled with multi-colored dots, another with rainbow layers of lacy patterns. Altogether, there are five Cute Cultures, based on patterns of different......

It only took one anonymous, outraged parent to turn a recent group show at Torrance Art Museum into a controversial art event. "Reverb: Music as Both Inspiration & Content in Contemporary Art" isn't the sort of subject matter that would normally fuel ire. Someone, however, took issue with Inglewood-based artist......

"I love to tell stories about animals," says Benjamin Renner, "and about animals eating each other." Renner directed Ernest and Celestine, a French animated feature loosely based on a series of children's books of the same name. The film, which was nominated for the Best Animated Feature in last night's......