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A new exhibit at LACMA showcases the renowned West Hollywood print workshop.
MONA had to leave downtown in 2011 but things are all right now. Visiting is like seeing old friends again.
Have you seen any alfresco theater yet this summer? Our columnist has.
Vice revisits the story of how designer Amy Inouye saved Chicken Boy from the landfill.
Nowhere -- not at Boston's Tanglewood in the Berkshires, or New York's Lewisohn Stadium, or Chicago's Ravinia -- is there such a summer symphony spot as Hollywood Bowl.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.
I was watching Musical Theatre West's revival of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" in Long Beach when Donald Trump invaded my thoughts.
It was only a matter of time. Inevitably, Gustavo Dudamel would cross the street from Disney Hall to the Music Center and oblige Plácido Domingo at his domain.
Especially on a day like today, we need to be reminded of the joy in the world.
Kudos to CTG for lending a helpful hand to smaller theaters and reviving selected local productions next spring at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
The museum's newest exhibition explores featherwork items from the era in Hawaii that predates the cultural carnage that followed the Christian missionaries.
Donna Perlmutter sees some opera and Daniel Ezralow's latest at the Wallis.
Don Shirley surveys the state of women on the local stage and offers some recommendations.
The original Filthy McNasty's occupied the Sunset Strip spot now the Viper Room. He also ran FM Station in the Valley.
Remarkable "Children of Eden" comes through to help save Thousand Oaks' Cabrillo Music Theatre. Plus more local theater.
The museum's curators have waited a long time to tell the story of men's fashions through the years.
Hollywood loves brilliant, tormented artists, like Chet Baker and Miles Davis, but can't resist embellishing.
"Maybe the greatest combination country singer and songwriter of his generation," Robert Hilburn said today.
Unprecedented dual exhibits of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography are now at the Getty and LACMA.
For better worse, the hottest corner of the downtown Arts District boom now has a giant international art destination.
What they do for Disney and for world music.
No, a new novel's "LA Observer" is not a thinly veiled reference to LA Observed. It's a thinly veiled reference to the LA Weekly.
Two plays named after cities, plus some productions set around Los Angeles.
The organizers blame lack of a mature market for art fairs in Los Angeles.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs on Thursdays at LA Observed.
Evening host Jim Svejda does one-hour interviews with all the Oscar-nominated composers every night this week.
If you didn't get to see the latest 'Candide' you missed something good.
It's a bit of a stretch, but why not? The spider and the singer both dress in black.
Time for the Broadway theater and entertainment district to be a year-round draw, says longtime activist Hillsman Wright.
LA's Mariachi Manchester 
Chuck Berry and the Stones
One rocking Saturday night in the KHJ-TV studios in 1965. Video and backstory
Neutra and Schindler
Play imagines what happened after the estranged architects were reunited in a 1953 hospital room. Karen Wada
For your consideration
Two costume designers who should have received Emmy nominations in our blogger's judgment.
Iris Schneider takes in some chamber music with the Da Camera Society.
A tale of two Sugar Plum Fairies
Joy Womack comes to the Santa Monica Nutcracker from Moscow, Lyrica Blankfein from NYC. More
Baryshnikov springs onstage
After roughly 15 years of wandering in the theatrical desert, Mikhail Baryshnikov has finally found the most deserving spotlight of his post-dancing career. Donna Perlmutter
Artist's work goes from home
Made in America scene
Mayor Garcetti with Jay-Z, Beyonce and Steve Aoki at the music festival in Grand Park. Photo on Aoki's Instagram feed.
Voices of LA
Kamau Daáood recites poetry backed by a klezmer jazz ensemble at Breed Street Shul. Iris Schneider
Kimono exhibit at LACMA
"Kimono for a Modern Age" presents more than 30 of the traditional garments. Curator Sharon S. Takeda walks us through.
New girl in town
Janie Taylor retired as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet this year and moved to Los Angeles. Native Intelligence
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Selected arts and culture links
Cultural institutions
American YouthSymphony
Art Center
Autry National Center
Broad Arts Foundation
CalArts
California African
American Museum
California Philharmonic
California String
Quartet
Center for Land Use
Interpretation
Center Theatre Group
Cerritos Center for
Performing Arts
Collage Dance Theatre
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Ford Theatres
Fowler Museum
Griffith Observatory
Hollywood Bowl
Huntington Library
Getty Center
GRAMMY Museum
Italian Cultural Inst.
Japanese American
National Museum
LACMA
Long Beach MOA
L.A. Ballet
L.A. Chamber Orchestra
L.A. Children's Chorus
L.A. Master Chorale
L.A. Opera
L.A. Philharmonic
Municipal Art Gallery
MOCA
Mus. of Jurassic Technology
Museum of Latin
American Art
Music Center
Natural History Museum
Norton Simon Museum
OC Perf. Arts Center
Otis College
Pacific-Asia Museum
Pasadena Museum of
Calif. Art
REDCAT
Santa Monica MOA
Santa Monica Symphony
Skirball Cultural Center
UCLA Hammer Mus.
UCLA Live
USC Fisher Mus.
USC Thornton School
Watts Towers Center
Weisman Museum
West Coast Jewish
Theatre
Zipper Concert Hall
Calendars and events
ArtSlant LACulture Mob
Experience L.A.
Flavorpill L.A.
L.A. Art Openings
LA Brain Terrain
Out West Arts
UCLA Happenings
USC Arts and Events
Media and blogs
Richard AnkromArts for L.A.
Arts Journal
ArtsMeme
Artworkslive
Marshall Astor
Blur + Sharpen
Michael Buitron
Gregg Chadwick
City of the Angels
Coagula
Concerning Art
Erin Cosgrove
CultureGrrl
Culture Monster
Curatorialist
Da Camera Society
Diavolo
Downtown Art Walk
Gustavo Dudamel
Ensemble Green
Carol Es
Fine Arts L.A.
Frenchy but Chic
Dennis Hollingsworth
I call it Oranges
International Review
of Music
Jacaranda
KUSC blog
L.A. Art Girls
LACMA on Fire
LACMA Unframed
LA Contemporary
Dance
L.A. in Bloom
LA Mano Press
L.A. Modern Auctions
LA Stage
LA Stage Alliance
Machine Project
Man One World
Mayer Rus
Modern Art Notes
Monday Evening
Concerts
NoHo Arts District
Robert Olsen
Positive Ape Index
Recycle LACMA
Rembrandt in SoCal
Ruskin Art Club
Sundays Live
at LACMA
The Judson Studios
THE Magazine
The O.C. Art Blog
Rubén Ortiz Torres
Try Harder
Violinist.com
Zero Degrees Art
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