Powerful ‘lynching’ pictures expose America’s dark past — and today’s turmoil
One day in 1953, the young and not yet widely known artist Robert Rauschenberg, just 26, knocked on the studio door of Willem de Kooning, 49, a newly successful figure ...
Tag: Museums & Art
10 moments that mark the Broad’s 10 years in Los Angeles — including a big change in the works
Ten years ago, a new destination emerged in downtown L.A., bringing yet another architectural spectacle to Grand Avenue and bolstering the city’s art offerings. The Broad, home to the vast ...
Inside the chilling séance that keeps selling out at L.A.’s Heritage Square
I am sitting in a tent placed inside the parlor of a Victorian-era house. Before me lies a spirit board, a lone tarot card and a black scrying mirror. I ...
How a tiny stone from a warrior’s tomb is shaking up ancient Greek art at Getty Villa
The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from ...
Did this clock belong to JFK? Inside one watchmaker’s decades-long obsession
Bill Anderson was close to 70 when he first spotted the clock. It looked like a ship’s wheel, a kitschy bit of decor you might see at a nautically themed ...
Ryan Coogler and Mary Corse to be honored at LACMA’s Art+Film Gala before Zumthor building opens
Director Ryan Coogler and artist Mary Corse will be honored at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 14th annual Art+Film Gala, the museum announced Sunday. The splashy, high-fashion dinner ...
The Chicano artist melting ice blocks in Riverside has a bigger story to tell
Some SoCal residents spent their summer at the beach, or at their local rooftop pool; others spent it indoors, hiding from ICE agents. It’s why Riverside artist Perry Picasshoe spent ...
The man behind LACMA’s Japanese Pavilion inspired renegade West Coast architects. Here’s how
The one and only pre-millennium building that LACMA director Michael Govan elected to save as part of his campus revamp was the museum’s Japanese Pavilion, designed by the brilliant, undeniably ...
Van Gogh and Manet paintings among gifts to LACMA from Pearlman Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is being gifted its first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet, in addition to four works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfred Sisley, ...
Dapper puppets in a fantasy forest? Step inside this SoCal spot filled with handmade wonder
With a playful spirit and a childlike sense of curiosity, it’s perhaps no surprise that the whimsically named Museum of Make Believe appealed instantly to a young audience. The Laguna ...
