'Breaking Ground' at Chinese American Museum Shows That Not All L.A....
Common thinking is that architects are predominantly old white dudes (and they mostly are), but the Chinese American Museum's exhibition "Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles...
View ArticleBukowski Flash Mob Breaks Out at Barney's Beanery
It's not every day that a random old guy announces to a group of strangers that he likes tight pussy. Actually, that happens all the time in Los Angeles. But this was different, because it wasn't an...
View ArticleKoreatown's Biggest Art Party, at Commonwealth and Council
Commonwealth and Council, an artist-run exhibition space and studio in the heart of Koreatown, is what some might call a classic "underground" art joint. It's located on the second floor of a...
View Article'L.A. Xicano' Exhibits Wrap a Banner Season for Chicano Art
The outdoor balcony on the north end of UCLA's Haines Hall was a fitting place for the informal pizza party last week concluding a series of Pacific Standard Time exhibitions loosely gathered under the...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the End of Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time, that half-year, regionwide paean to L.A.'s art history, officially ends on March 31. A show of vintage photographs and one last performance event send it off. Everything else on...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About the France-Los Angeles Art Mashup Taking...
Last week, New York-based, French artist Davide Balula picked the lock of Hammer curatorial associate Elizabeth Cline's house while a small crowd stood by. Paris-based artist Michel Blazy, or his...
View ArticleA Diary of the Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture
"The San Andreas is not Los Angeles' only fault," cracked architectural historian Thomas Hines at the kickoff to Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.. Hines didn't really mean it...
View ArticleOur Diary of the Getty's L.A. Architecture Project: SCI-Arc's Gala and a...
This is the second installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, covering the Modern architecture extravaganza that's blanketing the city. Go here for the first installment: *The Getty's...
View ArticleOur Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: 'Everything Loose Will Land,'...
This is the third installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration...
View ArticleOur Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: Where Are the Women?
This is the fourth installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Hat Chasing to a Haunted House
See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is This week, a man becomes a god in a play set in a midcentury landmark and an artist...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Batman to Burning Rituals
This week, one artist turns pop icons into haunting, dripping messes and another visits a burning volcano again and again. 5. Do architects believe in truth? "I've been told to tell you that the slides...
View ArticleOur Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: Gehry's Back at MOCA, LACMA's...
This is the fifth installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city during the Getty's big initiative. Check out our previous entries:...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Ultrasound Gel to a...
This week, the soul of Whitney Houston leads a bus tour and an artist turns a garish movie poster into an eerie abstraction. 5. Thirty-one summer nights Post, the downtown space artist run by HK...
View ArticleOur Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: 'A New Sculpturalism,' Is That...
This is the sixth and final installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city during the Getty's big initiative. Check out our previous...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Gary Cooper's Architect...
This week, there are exquisitely intricate, hippie paintings in Culver City and Independence Day performance art in East L.A. 5. Barbecue with Betsy Ross wannabe Every year, a steep backyard in...
View ArticleThe Odyssey, Performed in a Honda Odyssey
Odysseus does not return to the seductive, possessive Kalypso once he escapes her lair in Homer's telling of The Odyssey. But in writer-artist Johanna Kozma's version, he does return. Also, in Kozma's...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Tap Dancing to Ruined Billboards
This week, one artist makes crystals from scratch, another paints portraits of people who share his name, and a third focuses on the rhythms of the StairMaster. 5. Get-togethers "Show and Tell" at the...
View ArticleFive Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Black, Pill-Shaped Blobs...
This week, three summer group shows feature cleverly weird work, and black lozenge-shapes appear around the city. 5. Blue satin streamers The house Richard Neutra built in the 1930s across the street...
View ArticleAn Art Exhibit All About the San Fernando Valley. Like, Really
When the first Getty-helmed Pacific Standard Time initiative unfurled across the city in 2011 touting the legacy of postwar Angeleno art, art historian Damon Willick had just one question: "Where are...
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