Gogglebox star Helena Worthington’s life away from show – from unique secret skill to partner
Helena Worthington is best known for being one of the stars of Gogglebox, but away from the Channel 4 show, she has a very different…
UK’s ‘cheapest’ seaside town where there are beautiful beaches and few visitors
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland has previously been named the cheapest seaside town in the UK with the average house price coming in at £117,895 - and…
Death row inmate auctions his San Quentin journals, art for $80,000
SAN FRANCISCO — In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin’s death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades,…
Appreciation: Joe Goode (1937-2025) – Los Angeles Times
Painter Joe Goode died peacefully at home Saturday, one day before his 88th birthdayThe artist, an Oklahoma transplant, was instrumental in establishing the lively Los…
Bob Baker Day to bring healing (and SpongeBob) to L.A.’s puppet lovers
The all-things-puppetry extravaganza that is the yearly Bob Baker Day at Chinatown’s Los Angeles State Historic Park has landed on its themes and parade-leading grand…
What to do and where to eat in Indio, home of the Coachella festival
In 2021, Indio native Ejay Gomez had a dream that he was walking through a bustling town full of thriving businesses. Kids were playing, dogs…
New art documentary ‘Asco: Without Permission’ premieres at SXSW
In the 1970s and ‘80s, traces of the artist collective Asco, named after the Spanish word for “disgust,” could be seen all over East L.A.…
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard bore witness to apartheid
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the…
Supreme Court revives family’s claim to recover Pissarro painting stolen by Nazis
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday revived a family’s claim to recover a painting that had been hung in a Berlin apartment in 1939 and…
New LACMA building adds outdoor artworks to join ‘Urban Light’
Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled…
The men of Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist paintings
Whether French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte was gay is not known, although it is frequently noted that he never married. (The artist died young, at…
L.A. is America’s perfume capital — here are 11 must-visit spots
“Functional fragrance” refers to perfumes with benefits beyond scent — for example, using essential oils like lavender for mood enhancement. Capsule Parfumerie’s co-owner Linda Sivrican…
Amalia Mesa-Bains art exhibit and talk at the Cheech
It’s Oscars weekend here in Los Angeles, and your Essential Arts scribes will be contributing to the paper’s expansive coverage. I’ll be watching the event…
Editorial: Court can help a California family get back art Nazis stole
The magnificent Impressionist painting of a rainy Paris streetscape that hung on a wall in Lilly Cassirer’s home in Germany in 1939 was the price…
Oscar races up for grabs?
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone has some issues with the way the Dodgers celebrated after they thoroughly dismantled his team in the World Series.…
‘Anora’ season once again in full swing
Would you pay a trillion dollars for California? Isn’t that what a home in Santa Monica goes for these days?I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the…
African Art Renaissance: Voices from the continent and the diaspora | Arts and Culture
Exploring contemporary African art with three influential women bridging the continent and its global diaspora.In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, we delve into…
Art as survival: Gaza’s creators transform pain into protest | Israel-Palestine conflict
Amid the rubble of destroyed homes and the echoing booms of air strikes, Gaza’s artists sit with brushes in hand, transforming despair into defiance. Flour…
Super Bowl LIX proved that the TV ad is a dying art
Has video killed the Super Bowl ad?If ever there were a Super Bowl that needed a bunch of surprising, cool and smartly written commercials, it…
Tony Roberts dead: Stage and film actor often starred in Woody Allen movies
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies — often as…