Stars pays tribute to departing Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin
Hammer Director Ann Philbin was given the celebrity treatment at the museum’s star-packed gala Saturday night as a host of arts and culture luminaries, including…
Stars Wars Day, Alice Wang’s extraterrestrial art and more LA culture
Hello and May the 4th be with you! From a cultural galaxy near, near by, the Essential Arts newsletter is back again, corralling the best…
Best European cities for art lovers ranked – is your favourite destination on the list?
Creative tourism is on the rise - and a new study has found that Paris, London, Berlin and Amsterdam are among the European capital cities…
Experimental art collective Meow Wolf is coming to L.A.
A Meow Wolf exhibition is designed as a dream space, a walk-through floor-to-ceiling collection of psychedelic art with a sci-fi bent and an anything-goes, punk…
Korean-American artist Anna Park renders digital age in stark black and white at Art Gallery of WA exhibition
In large-scale charcoal drawings filled with movement, details and pop-art references, artist Anna Park explores what it is to live in an age consumed by…
Art Deco and dignity inspire multi-hyphenate comedian Katie Cazorla’s new club, the Kookaburra Lounge
Most comedy clubs in L.A. can book a lineup on any given night, but it’s the special venues that know how to treat comedians properly…
‘So pretty’ gush music fans as 90s pop star has barely aged a day 29 years after fame as she reveals new job
NINETIES music fans have been left doing a double take after seeing new pictures of a popstar from the iconic decade. Jewel stormed the charts…
Pen pal program helps war widows find friendship and revive the art of letter writing
Ruth Russell, 75, has never met the woman she exchanges letters with once a month.But over the past two years, the pair have forged a…
Kimberley horse trainer hopes art of breaking in mounts will live on despite creeping mechanisation
Hamish Lamond works day in, day out doing what some see as a dying art. He takes horses — animals unbroken and fearful of humans — and teaches…
Camille Claudel exhibition at the Getty Museum is magnificent
A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary…
Ed Ruscha ‘Now Then’ and its ‘Chocolate Room’ shine at LACMA
“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” the sprawling and much-anticipated retrospective of the great American Pop and Conceptual artist, opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County…
The Broad museum expansion: Will it be worth $100 million?
The Broad is getting a new rear end. The popular downtown vanity museum on Grand Avenue that opened just over eight years ago has already…
Where are Richard Serra’s sculptures in Southern California?
Acclaimed artist and sculptor Richard Serra was known for his massive works of steel that live in institutions and public spaces across the world. The…
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego hits hurdle in building sale
A controversial plan revealed last week for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to sell its satellite offices and exhibition space at the historic…
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to sell downtown buildings
Two years after opening a $110-million expansion project in the tony seaside enclave of La Jolla, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has put…
How Keith Haring’s art transcended his untimely death
Book Review Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring By Brad GoochHarperCollins: 512 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The…
Matchcraft pioneer Len Hughes still making mind-blowing models from matchsticks after 60 years
Len Hughes pioneered the unusual art of matchcraft.Over the past 60 years, the 88-year-old has made hundreds of intricate models out of glue and tiny…
Korean art of the ’60s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum: review
Seoul is the latest major city to establish itself as a significant international hub for new art. With that distinction comes the expected propagation of…
James Conlon to exit as L.A. Opera music director in 2026
James Conlon, the second music director in Los Angeles Opera’s almost 40-year history, will step down from his role after the 2025-26 season, the company…
Patt Morrison: Is that graffiti or art? How L.A. draws the lines
Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide…