Dodgers extend merch collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami
A month ago Dodgers gear festooned with colorful flowers in the unmistakable designs of acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami sold out in minutes at a…
Don Bachardy portraits at the Huntington: profoundly moving
At some point in the mid-1960s, artist Don Bachardy began to make a regular practice of having the sitter for a portrait-drawing sign and date…
‘Art for Everybody’ review: Exposing ‘Painter of Light’ Kinkade’s dark side
If you think you’ve never seen a painting by Thomas Kinkade, think again. The late artist, who is said to have sold more canvases than…
Geffen Playhouse’s 2025-26 season has Athol Fugard and Pearl Cleage plays
So far, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s inaugural season at the helm of the Geffen Playhouse has spanned a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size,” a co-production…
Artists in LACMA’s “Imagining Black Diasporas” gather for a photograph
This special group portrait in commemoration of LACMA’s momentous exhibition “Imagining Black Diasporas” will be printed in Image’s forthcoming April issue. Scroll through for a…
Madonna, Elton John end longtime feud: ‘Buried the hatchet’
Elton John has had a lot to say about Madonna over the years, but recently he offered the fellow pop icon two simple words: “Forgive…
Review: Bruce Nauman’s pensive Conceptual art from the 1970s seems timely again
Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, four feet wide and four inches thick, sits on the…
Artist of ‘the worst’ picture of Trump says criticism damaging her business
An artist whose official portrait of Donald Trump was publicly lambasted by the president said his comments are "directly and negatively impacting" her business, threatening…
Michael Hurley dead: Singer-songwriter was ‘Godfather of freak folk’
Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the “freak-folk” movement and inspired generations of artists, has died. He was 83.“It is with a…
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…
SAG-AFTRA stands by DEI initiatives in contrast to studios
SAG-AFTRA is sticking with diversity, equity and inclusion, even as major forces in Hollywood distance themselves from such measures.The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television…
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…
Ecuadorian artist works on longest drawing in the world
Ecuadorian artist Franz del Castillo is working to create the longest drawing in history, spanning over 3,000 metres. Source link
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…
Why Israelis and Palestinians should read each other’s poetry
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are…
Tell us: What’s the best bumper sticker you’ve seen in L.A.?
Hit the road in L.A., and you’re likely to spot a cheeky bumper sticker … or 17. As Times contributor Renée Reizman reports, the medium…
Column: Why the Rock Hall Needs to Induct Maná
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is breaking new ground with this year’s nominees for induction — and the señoras and rockeros among us…
Chappell Roan responds to writer who criticized her Grammy speech
Chappell Roan challenged the author of an op-ed critical of her speech at the Grammy Awards to match her in donating $25,000 to “struggling dropped…
With a David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist’s L.A. haunts
Artist David Hockney was a driver: after visiting and then moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he zipped around the Hollywood Hills in his red…
Thump Records celebrates its 35th anniversary
Within the Pomona Swap Meet’s sea of shiny Corvettes and 1950s Cadillacs, a storage truck seems out of place. In thick block letters, it reads…