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.”
Los Angeles
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.
Art
Artists Reimagine Nike’s Cortez Running Shoe
At LaPau Gallery, nine West Coast Latinx artists show the power of personal and cultural agency.
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.
Art
Painting Rejected From California Biennial Over Image of Swastika
Artist Ben Sakoguchi, who was imprisoned with his family in a Japanese internment camp, said his works are "a reminder of our history and of how far we still have to go as a society."
News
Artist Silke Otto-Knapp, Who Made Watercolor "Dance," Dies at Age 52
The artist and beloved professor of painting and drawing at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture had battled ovarian cancer for two years.
News
Billy Al Bengston, LA Painter With a Contrarian Streak, Dies at 88
In his hard-edged abstractions, Bengston made the direct center of his paintings the focal point, a cardinal sin according to his art school teachers.
Art
In Times Square and Sunset Strip, "American Gurl" Subverts Femininity
Kilo Kish’s video on digital billboards, presented by Womxn in Windows, is accompanied by a print campaign on trash receptacles in Midtown Manhattan