1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (790+ words) For sale in San Francisco: A 45-foot-tall metal sculpture of a naked woman. Her name is R-Evolution. Her hair is pulled back and her facial expression is serene. Her mechanized chest expands and contracts, as if she’s breathing. And she…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1690+ words) “The system is the art,” says Refik Anadol during a recent tour of Dataland, the 25,000-square-foot immersive, environmental, generative, multisensory AI arts museum in downtown L.A. that represents the culmination of Anadol’s career thus far. Set to open later…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (758+ words) The Skirball exhibition, "Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86," traces the rise of punk across key scenes in the U.S. and the UK, and tells singular stories of the musicians and artists who made the iconoclastic scene tick....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (361+ words) Los Angeles Times I love reading about artists’ processes and routines. Toni Morrison wrote before dawn, before her children awoke and she had to go to her publishing job. In the evenings, Maya Angelou cleaned and put away all her…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (909+ words) Yoko Ono is bringing her message of peace to Los Angeles as part of her upcoming exhibition at the Broad museum. Nearly 57 years after she and her husband John Lennon erected a billboard near the Chateau Marmont emblazoned with the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (949+ words) In 1978, after eating LSD-laced garlic butter toast and while crouched under a piano during a performance, artists Linda Frye Burnham and Richard Newton decided to start a magazine. Called High Performance, it would become one of a handful of magazines…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (802+ words) A giant stack of dishes from the kitchen, a disembodied array of Daffy-like duckbills, an angry storm cloud of old rotary dial telephones embedded in tangled cords — Robert Therrien’s art covers a lot of varied territory. Whether he was making…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (29+ words) Los Angeles Times Here’s everything to know about David Geffen Galleries as a new LACMA emerges....

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (518+ words) “The concept of museums commissioning artists is now commonplace. It wasn’t commonplace then,” said LACMA’s senior curator and modern art department head, Stephanie Barron, as she watched the fountain’s bright yellow, red and blue mobile-like paddles dance and twist in…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (391+ words) Context matters. The familiar looks and feels different when its setting has changed, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries are all about change. Roughly 2,000 works from LACMA’s encyclopedic collection of more than 150,000 objects are installed…...