Mike D, Beastie Boy, recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, mad collector of modern furniture and, in general, the man with all the fly juice, has now found the time to curate his own museum show. "Transmission L.A.: AV Club" is a free, 17-day festival of art, music......
It's a bright crisp day on the Sunset strip and LA Weekly's at Prism Gallery waiting for our turn to meet Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, Brazilian brothers who are known in the contemporary art and graffiti worlds simply as "the twins," or "Os Gêmeos" in Portuguese. The brothers are here......
For more photos check out our slideshow, How + Nosm Paint the L.A. Weekly Building The L.A. Weekly celebrated Valentine's Day 2012 like no one else could, with a new red, black and white façade painted by artists Raoul and Davide Perre, known as How & Nosm. In October, during......
See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Michael Miller and Paul Stewart had capped a successful Kickstarter project and planned a digital imprint of their book, a collection of photographs from the golden era of West Coast hip hop, called West Coast Hip......
Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories that we think were most remarkable......
Gajin Fujita has email now. The Japanese American, Boyle heights resident and retired K2S graffiti crew member has finally come into the computer age, albeit rather reluctantly. Until now, the only way to reach the reclusive artist was by landline at his family home where he still keeps his studio......
For more photos, see "How and Nosm in L.A." Raoul and Davide Perre, otherwise known as artists How and Nosm, are identical German twins that yes, speak their own graf language and even finish each others sentences. To mark their first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, opening Oct 15 at......
Artist/activist Saber has never been one to do anything in a "small" way as evidenced by his world record holding graffiti piece on the L.A. River -- done in 1997 and visible from space before it was buffed last year. His latest projects are no exception. A couple weeks ago......
For more photos check out our slideshow, Sage Vaughn: Studio Tour Sage Vaughn, one of SoCal's favorite contemporary urban naturalist painters, is tucked inside a quaint and tidy mid century modern one story studio, located right where Pasadena ends. There's a small group of mourning doves that gather daily outside......
As if traffic along the La Brea corridor isn't already bad enough, L.A.'s beloved street artist Mr. Brainwash -- who first got attention through our cover story and later through the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop -- is staging another spectacular and he needs your help. The man partially......
