Sam Bloch

When Judy Chicago staged Disappearing Environments in a brand new Century City shopping mall in 1968, she was a young California minimalist, using color and space as weapons to prod an otherwise exuberant consumer culture. For one long day, a hazmat-clad and powdered-hair team of Chicago, collaborators Eric Orr and......

Last weekend, along with thousands of other cyclists, I clambered off my bicycle at the intersection of 1st and Main, and joined the crowds surging through the Occupy Los Angeles campsite in a public park off City Hall. Occupy L.A. was just one stop on the CicLAvia route, so demonstrators,......

The weekend on the L.A. River, in brief: kayaking in the Sepulveda Basin, cigarette breaks and joints on the bike path in Elysian Valley. At the sixth annual Frogtown Artwalk, held along a dimly stretch of warehouses and mixed-use buildings on Blake Avenue along the river, the waterway's future as......

Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when white Marines stationed in Los Angeles beat the shit out of blacks and Mexicans for dressing fancy in wartime. "Those were......