Art
A Miniature View of Modernism's Masters
Though smaller in size than the artists’ usual works, the works in Modernism in Miniature gain their heft from their big-name creators.
California
News
Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Damaged in Beirut Blast Undergoes Restoration at Getty Museum
The previously unknown work was salvaged by a Lebanese artist and art historian, who first made the case for the painting's authenticity.
News
The Art World Reacts to Ye’s Hateful Comments
A film studio scrapped its completed documentary on Ye, artists are denouncing hate speech, and LA’s Holocaust Museum says it received threats.
News
Why Is an Auction House Selling Works by Imprisoned Native Artists?
The Kiowa Tribe is urging Bonhams to halt the sale of the books, which they believe “may have been wrongfully acquired.”
Film
Behind the Fight to Save North Hollywood’s Last Indie Cinema
Laemmle NoHo 7, the last independent cinema in North Hollywood, is slated to be destroyed and replaced by luxury apartments.
News
Mayan Codex, Americas' Oldest Surviving Book, Goes on View in LA
Dating to circa 1100 AD, the Mayan Codex is said to have been painted by a single artist, recording the movements of planet Venus over the course of 584 days.
Art
Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
Art
LA’s New Metro Line Opens With 14 Public Artworks
Kenturah Davis, Mickalene Thomas, and Shinique Smith are among the artists who created work for the K Line, which connects historical centers of Black American life and culture in LA.
Guide
Prepare Yourself for LA's First Keith Haring Museum Show
Art is for Everybody at the Broad Museum will focus on the artist's life and activism.
News
Can a Ballot Measure Save Arts Education in California?
If approved, Proposition 28 could increase funding for performance and visual arts education by as much as $1 billion.
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Announcement
Norton Simon Museum Presents Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography
This exhibition in Pasadena, California, features works on paper by Ruth Asawa, Gego, Eleanore Mikus, Louise Nevelson, Irene Siegel, and Hedda Sterne.
Interview
The Happily Haunted Cinema of Guy Maddin
The twilight state between dreaming and waking that permeates a restoration of Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital echoes that of life and death in his films.