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Artist Xavier Veilhan takes on Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein house
Xavier Veilhan, the Paris-based artist who last year turned Richard Neutra’s VDL House in Silver Lake into a startling temporary gallery and later transformed Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 21 into a ghostly, smoke-filled, one-night-only...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Fine Artists, Architecture
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Art review: Urs Fischer's grand gestures come up short at MOCA
Urs Fischer is an artist of the big gesture. It's a mixed blessing. Emblematic is a monumental outdoor sculpture in his newly opened, 16-year survey exhibition, which is divided between the Museum of Contemporary Art's two downtown L.A. buildings. The...
Tags: Museums, Thomas Kinkade, Sculpture, Michael Jackson, Arts and Culture
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'Filly Brown' forges a link between generations of Latino artists
A few minutes before a screening of "Filly Brown" last week, Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos tried to explain why the new family drama about a female Los Angeles street poet "is the most hopeful film I've ever worked on in my life." Olmos, 66,...
Tags: Jenni Rivera, Sundance Film Festival, Movies, Hurts (music group), Filly Brown (movie)
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Museums, Obituaries, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Ai Weiwei stage play gets favorable reviews in London
There have been a number of stage plays devoted to the lives of visual artists -- Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have all received the grand theatrical treatment. But Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is unlike the others in that he is a bonafide...
Tags: Ai Weiwei, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment Events, Mark Rothko, Muhammad Ali
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Pole art popularity outstrips its origins
Sergia Anderson climbed high up a pole as Bjork's "Hyperballad" blasted through Circus Disco, a West Hollywood nightclub. Spinning and twirling, legs straight and toes pointed, she hung perpendicular to the ceiling, holding the pole with just her hands....
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Bjork, Fine Artists
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MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation
Times Architecture CriticThe curator of a major architecture exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art says he is concerned it will be canceled in advance of its planned June 2 opening. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”...Tags: Science and Technology, Museums, Arts, Arts and Culture, Thom Mayne
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Coachella 2013: The music goes on, but for what purpose
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is considered one of the music industry's premier festivals, connecting the dots between musical generations and genres with a diverse lineup that attracts fans from around the globe. But the festival, which...
Tags: Ruth's Chris Steak House Incorporated, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, AEG, Entertainment Events, Phoenix (music group)
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Rachel Kushner lights a fire in 'The Flamethrowers'
Rachel Kushner's house in Angelino Heights feels about a million miles — and a million years — from the tumult embodied in her novels. There are books on shelves and stacks of children's games; in one corner, a music stand holds a beginner's...
Tags: Authors, Cuba, Salt, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists
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Review: History lurks in Stephen Prina's sculptures at LACMA
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was arguably the first Modern artist. Partly that's because the 19th century painter's work was made in direct, conscious response to museum art — in those days a newfangled institution. Before, painters and sculptors...
Tags: Austria, Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sculpture, Arts
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MOCA gala takes walk on the wild side
It seemed only fitting that the MOCA gala celebrating the opening of Urs Fischer's new chaos-skirting show, organized under the "creative direction" of the crazy-making artist Rob Pruitt, would have a Dada sort of anti-logic. In other words, it was...
Tags: Museums, Antonio Villaraigosa, Cheech Marin, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Playwright drags Chile's conscience into the spotlight
The stage lights rise, and Michelle Bachelet — former political prisoner, torture victim and socialist president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 — braces herself to deliver a dramatic farewell speech. "Pardon me if I offend the fascists," she tells...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment Events, London Theatre, Chile, Civil Rights
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