Los Angeles’ best classical music, art and theater in 2025
Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in…
2024 was a year of anti-Palestinian censorship and active art rebellion | Opinions
For artists, it is difficult to reflect on the past year without thinking about Israel’s genocide in Gaza that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians…
Art Attack's Neil Buchanan unrecognisable with grey hair and beard after 17 years away
Art Attack star Neil Buchanan, who fronted the popular children's TV show from 1990 until 2007, looks unrecognisable in new photos after taking a step…
AI Vanguard Art Resurrects 18th-Century Destroyed Painting Using Artificial Intelligence
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Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies at 90
Lorraine O’Grady, a one-of-a-kind conceptual artist who examined racism and sexism through a multitude of mediums, has died at age 90. The artist’s groundbreaking works…
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend: art, music, theater
During The Times’ Actors Roundtable, Adrien Brody gorgeously shared how his mother has “guided me in my understanding of art and the yearning to leave…
Lee Ramer, former L.A. Cultural Affairs leader, dies at 90
Lee Ramer, a longtime Los Angeles arts leader and early champion of L.A. as a cultural capital, died at home Sunday, her family said. She…
Creepy vibes drives booming business at Tonopah’s Clown Motel.
TONOPAH, Nev. — Business is so good at the Clown Motel, you might expect more of its painted faces to be smiling. But as Vijay Mehar…
‘Porcelain War’ review: Artists take up arms in Ukraine.
Guns, paintbrushes and cameras are tools of national defense for the Ukrainian artists at the center of “Porcelain War,” a sublime and stirring documentary from…
Sondheimer: Glendale’s Art Samontina finds solace in coaching after loss of son
For nearly 10 minutes last June, Glendale High basketball coach Art Samontina watched on his cell phone in horror as his 6-year-old son, who had…
The 15th China Photography Art Festival was held in Sanmenxia
Article contentSANMENXIA, China, Nov. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On November 23rd, the 15th China Photography Art Festival commenced in Sanmenxia and will last for…
Need an alternative to Black Friday? Look to L.A.’s museum stores
Holiday gift shopping? It’s chaos. The Grove on Black Friday? Good luck finding parking — it’s a two-hour wait just to squeeze into a spot.…
We live near hideous £6k statue of a giant POO – woke council thinks it’s ‘modern art’ but it looks like a turd
A NEW public sculpture of a snail has been likened to a "giant poo emoji" and branded a huge waste of public money.The Periwinkle Shelter…
Wild Up and Brightwork newmusic turn concerts into catharsis
Sunday brunch, laugh, cry, reflect, bop along to the music, quietly listen or let it all out in a deafening collective primal scream Ahead of…
The Shore: On Poets, Schiller And Making Mention Of The Goethean Observation
This is a prose poem that on the face of it in so many words is for children in conflict, war and genocide around the…
Frank Auerbach dead: Painter who fled the Nazis was 93
LONDON — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died.…
Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon in ‘wonderful place’ after reunion
Art Garfunkel says he’s rekindling his bond with estranged Simon & Garfunkel bandmate Paul Simon, after decades of on-and-off tensions. The 83-year-old singer reflected on…
LACMA Art + Film Gala draws Blake Lively, Charli XCX, DiCaprio
The evening was cloudy, but the stars came out anyway, parading in front of Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” sculpture before heading into the controlled chaos…
‘Dahomey’ review: African art returns home, colonialism stings
A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through…
LACMA will open new building in 2026; scaffolding comes down
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries will open to the public in April 2026, the museum announced Friday, as scaffolding…