Art Talk

Before the Museum of Contemporary Art, even before the L.A. County Museum of Art, large art exhibitions in this city were held at what was then called the Museum of Natural Science...

Okay, make fun of me. With hundreds of Pacific Standard Time exhibitions — or is it thousands? — non-stop, 24/7, all over town, I desperately needed an escape....

In the 1960's, artists everywhere were experimenting with ways to move beyond the traditional disciplines of painting and sculpture. In Southern California, many of them...

Just in time for an explosion of exhibitions in museums and galleries all over Southern California, two new art fairs were launched in LA last week...

With all the discussion of Pacific Standard Time, the contributions of the Getty Museum have not really come into focus. As of October 1, the focus will be clear....

For us, Angelinos, intrigued by the city’s ever-changing art scene, this week will test our endurance... There are major exhibitions opening at four different museums plus...

Pacific Standard Time is far flung affair and last week I drove to east to check out the show at Pomona College Museum of Art...

You probably heard the joke that one cannot be too thin or too rich. To which I usually like to add, with a wink, that one cannot have too much good art either....

Art Critic Hunter Drohojowska-Phil reviews Beatrice Wood and Craig Kauffman, both in Santa Monica.

In the art world, the beginning of September is a time when bells start ringing, announcing the opening of the autumn season...

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews three exhibits currently on view at LACMA as part of Pacific Standard Time.

Powerful works of art inevitably inspire and surprise. They stir up emotions and, on occasion, even make you indignant and uncomfortable. But to make you want to throw up...?  

One of the most despicable things that can happen to a great work art, beyond destruction caused by some terrible calamity, is to be willfully cut in pieces for the greedy purpose...

In the last decade, the name of Chinese sculptor Ai Weiwei has become known not only to the art connoisseurs but to a wide public as well...

For the last couple of months, friends and colleagues returning from New York kept raving about one particular exhibition, the one at the Metropolitan Museum...

You've probably seen photos of aspiring actors standing on streets in endless lines, waiting for a chance to audition for a role, no matter how small...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Art has unique power to inspire, to heal and, sometimes, even to triumph over such daunting obstacles as Carmageddon...

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to a young lady I've been in love with for as long as I remember myself. Not only is she charming and pretty, but...

When Russians try to talk sense into an impatient, restless person, they say, "For heaven's sakes, slow down! It seems like you are sitting on a nail!"...