Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

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  Against Common Sense

  Rei Terada’s "Looking Away" has given us a grammar for the feeling of wanting to escape from something unfixable.

  Michael W. CluneFeb 1, 2015

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  • Literary Criticism

  • Philosophy & Religion

• City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

  Hirsch presents Halprin as a modernist builder of bold (and imperfect) ideas, rather than a post-modern deconstructionist challenging the language …

  Robby HerbstJan 12, 2015

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  Ode to Oakes

  Pioneers of a practical miracle, the Oakes twins’ method has been deemed by some the greatest innovation in perspectival representation since the Renaissance.

  Irene HsiaoJan 8, 2015

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  Somehow the Mud Shines: On Photographs by Barak Zemer

  Barak Zemer's photographs are fragile creatures.

  Noura WedellJan 3, 2015

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  Descartes, Dick, and the Dog: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA

  Farrago of banality.

  Victoria DaileyDec 28, 2014

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• Studio, Gallery, and Cloud

  Lainey Racah interviews artist Devin Kenny on his practice, the internet, and his newly released record, "Alone We Play."

  Lainey RacahDec 27, 2014

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  • Music

• “Songs for the Witch Woman” Uncovers True Love Story of LA Artist and Rocket Scientist

  Thanks to a new book out from Fulgur Esoterica, we now have a window into the love story of Jack and Marjorie — two transfixing, but somehow still obscure, Los Angeles figures.

  Robert GarrovaDec 20, 2014

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• Sturtevant’s Provincialism: “Sturtevant: Double Trouble” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (until February 22, 2015)

  “Sturtevant: Double Trouble” travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on March 21, 2015.

  Pac PobricDec 18, 2014

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• Looking Out, Looking In

  No one can simultaneously look outside and write.

  Jessica GrossDec 1, 2014

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  Paris Envy: Frank Gehry’s Vuitton Foundation

  Joseph GiovanniniNov 16, 2014

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• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Los Angeles

  A dentist chair view of LA.

  Geoff NicholsonNov 4, 2014

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  Home and History in the Fiction of Los Angeles

  Ray Bradbury’s house may become representative of another half-true tenet of Los Angeles — history gobbled up, paved over, and forgotten.

  Sarah-Jane StratfordOct 24, 2014

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