ART on FUBU Network from street art to the Metropolitian Museum.
As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine’s early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.
A revelatory show at the Huntington puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light.
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.
Bruce Nauman’s celebrated Conceptual art ripened during the decade he worked in Pasadena. A fine gallery show assembles two dozen examples with political and social dimensions that speak to present day.
Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in L.A.!) music festivals, “Life of Pi” and “Hamlet” highlight our staff’s spring preview picks.
Painter Joe Goode was instrumental in establishing the 1960s L.A. art scene — and challenged conventions along the way.
The high-profile exhibition of large-scale art installations across the Coachella Valley has launched with fewer works this year. Here are the three standouts.
In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu’s Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?
Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.
Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.
In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which showcases pieces from Marin’s collection.
Few are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago.
Architect Frederick Fisher has worked on cultural projects that include the Getty Villa, the Huntington and MoMA PS1. Now his studio is helping refresh the Natural History Museum.
In 10 years at The Times, I have gotten to immerse myself in a vibrant artistic community that belies every trope about a culture-less L.A.
Frida Kahlo’s story has been told and retold, but there are still pieces left to divulge, as evidenced in the new Prime Video documentary ‘Frida.’
Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it’s changing the nature of monuments.
‘Barbie’ and ‘Poor Things’ use architecture to conjure fantastical worlds. In ‘The Zone of Interest,’ it channels the banality of evil.
Architecture criticism is not dead yet. The New York Review of Architecture turns its eye to L.A. — from cemetery design to the rising Lucas Museum.
The actor-comedian’s first feature film, ‘Problemista,’ draws inspiration from his own byzantine immigration experience as well as surrealist paintings.
Ed Templeton’s photos from his time as a pro skateboarder also record poignant moments of friendship, love and loneliness — not to mention broken bones.
L.A. artist Joey Terrill’s vibrant canvases, on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, chronicle intimate moments of queer Chicano life: heartbreak and love and life with HIV.
Decaying high-rises in L.A. — as well as Pyongyang and Caracas — represent the limitations of technology and grand building schemes.
At a time in which women’s bodily autonomy is constricted, the ‘cool auntie’ offers a model of glamorous independence — and a counter to the ‘tradwife.’
Architect William Pereira’s 1973 Times Mirror building in downtown L.A. makes a special appearance in Netflix’s ‘Griselda’ as a signifier of cocaine excess.
‘The Settlers’ and ‘White on White’ explore the role of film and photography in a brutal era of South American history.
A book and a preservation effort at the Getty put a lens on conservation. Plus, a Black stage actor sues for discrimination, in our weekly arts newsletter
AI is swallowing art — high and low — whole. Plus: a shocking turn in a Nazi-looting case and challenging gender in dance, in our weekly arts newsletter
The debut novel ‘Dead in Long Beach, California,’ is a sharp, dazzling turn for Compton-raised author Venita Blackburn, who made her name with lightning-fast fiction.
Work by Carolyn Castaño and a show inspired by cabinets of curiosities offer subversive delights. Plus, art at the Huntington and the Cheech, in our arts newsletter
Work by Teddy Sandoval at VPAM and a multigenerational exhibition at the Cheech dig into queerness, gender and the politics of the body.
Perelman PAC and Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall — New York performance spaces addressing intricate technical needs — are uniting artists and audiences.
A visually striking opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Plus the art of WWI and stained glass in honor of civil rights, in our weekly arts newsletter
New stained glass by Marshall in honor of peaceful protest — along with a poem by Elizabeth Alexander — replace a 1950s tribute to Confederate generals
The Hirshhorn presents work from Simone Leigh’s acclaimed Venice Biennale installation. Plus, Aubrey Plaza takes the stage off-Broadway, in our arts newsletter