Last week, Sonos Studio presented the Los Angeles premiere of the new Green Day documentary ¡Cuatro!, and the band's followers enthusiastically turned out to the screening. The documentary, which chronicled a new beginning of sorts for the band, was an appropriate fit for the launch of a new line of......
I suppose your first thought on walking into a cyclone might be "what the ----?" Or it might be nothing at all. You might be so overwhelmed at trying to orient yourself that your brain snaps into some other mode of consciousness. Spanish artist La Ribot's six-hour performance Laughing Hole......
Trimpin is a sound artist, a sculptor, an engineer and inventor, a musician... All of these characterizations describe the work he creates, housed in museum and public collections around the globe. And yet none of them alone pin down Trimpin's enigmatic art. The work of this German-born, Seattle-based artist is......
I spent a solid 30 minutes last Friday night attempting to figure out what exactly was "old lady" smell, sniffing through several bottles trying to find a version of it, before I finally gave up -- but not without learning a thing or two about scents. If that doesn't strike......
Medusa, Dumfounded and Gizzle LACMA 6-21-12 See also: Koreatown rapper Dumbfoundead inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story Better than... your last visit from your fairy godmother. The Crowd included a man who looked like Jesus: long brown hair, beard, long white dress. Last night, for the second installment......
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The art world sometimes takes itself too seriously. Franklin Sirmans doesn't. But that doesn't mean he isn't a serious player. He just knows how to have fun, even while doing......
3MG LACMA 5-17-11 See also: Murs on How His Family's Dry-Cleaning Business Survived the Riots Better Than... the DMC show LACMA put on a few months back in the Bing Theater. I love DMC, but that shindig was awkward. Composed of Murs, Eligh and Scarub, 3MG reunited for a performance......
In 1972 Asco spray-painted their signatures onto the walls of LACMA, asserting themselves as active members of the art community despite the fact that LACMA wasn't yet willing to show their work. Last Wednesday night, Milwaukee-based Special Entertainment, the partnership between artists Andrew Swant and Bobby Ciraldo, also inserted their......
Ever find yourself toting around boxes of unknown childhood memories? Hey, sentimentality can be burdensome. Maybe that's why those New Year's Eve celebrations where people just chuck things into the garbage are so popular. The names of ex-boyfriends and other heartstring-ripping past-year traumas heaved into a rubbish bin, leaving you......
Los Angeles is now one brilliant mind short, as legendary artist Mike Kelley has been found dead, his gallery confirmed. Born in 1954 in a suburb of Detroit, Kelley received his MFA from CalArts in 1978, made his work and home primarily in L.A. and grew to become an internationally......
