Arts & Culture Entries
M.G. Lord argues that the stunning Elizabeth Taylor used her beauty to surreptitiously grapple with key issues for women, making her an accidental feminist.
Many of L.A.'s great media artists have work screening or on view this week in shows across the city, from historic highlights to brand new efforts.
REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
L.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue.
Projects this week recall and remake the past, from John Cage to Lou Reed.
Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
Wim Wenders uses 3-D cinematography in groundbreaking ways to render the exquisite artistry of German choreographer Pina Bausch in his new film, "Pina," opening January 13, 2012.
LA-based artist Erin Cosgrove has created an eerie and disturbing book trailer for Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet.
This week's media art scene is political, conceptual, beautiful and provocative, a perfect way to start a new year.
The trovadores, the Spanish speaking troubadors of Los Angeles, will not forget May 1, 2007 in MacArthur Park. A group of them has released a CD of songs in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered the pain of police batons and rubber bullets that day by LAPD officers in riot gear.
Gift-giving is easy this year, thanks to a spate of terrific, recently published books suited to several different reading predilections. Here are four to consider...
Don't miss the one-week run of "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" at the Nuart Theater.
The photographer known as Weegee created a series of lurid and surreal images of L.A. between 1947 and 1952, many of which are currently on view at MOCA, and collected in a book.
Over his career Saul Bass would revolutionize the art of movie title design, reinvent the ways in which advertising campaigns were conceived and carried out, and basically change the foundations of visual communication in American popular culture.
This week's media art scene includes exciting new work from artist Kara Walker, a new feature film by brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and a new book on the great designer Saul Bass.
One of the highlights this weekend in media arts is the Filmforum screening of work by underground artists and Topanga Canyon bohemians...
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