Cindy Sherman

For her series, “The Once and Future Queens� at Kopeikin Gallery, photographer Simone Lueck placed an ad on Craigslist looking for older women who wanted to pose as glamorous movie stars. The images resulting from these collaborations are sometimes...

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all perform different versions of ourselves as we fill the roles required by daily life: co-worker, lover, relative, friend. In some cases — say, call center operators or movie stars —......

Jimmy Eat World’s newest disc, “Invented,” released at the end of September, hasn’t quite reached the peak of 2001’s platinum-selling “Bleed American.” Jimmy Eat World, with Adkins in foregound It produced the No....

Do the galleries of a contemporary art museum really benefit very much from natural light filtering in from skylights overhead? No, not much – but you wouldn’t know that from Thursday morning’s public performance at Disney Concert Hall, where the......

A giant bulb atop the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood that goes on and off for no apparent reason. A letter denying a Mexican citizen a visa, plastered across the façade of the Geffen Contemporary. A billboard on Fairfax advertising a used 1994...

The magazine ArtReview announced this morning its list of the art world's "Power 100" and several prominent L.A. names were among the illustrious, including Eli Broad (No. 7), Michael Govan (No. 40), Tim Blum and Jeff Poe (sharing No. 31).......

-- Without a trace: A lithograph by Edvard Munch has been stolen from a gallery in Norway. (Radio Netherlands) -- Elaborate charade: Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein said they will merge their two solo Broadway shows after a public quarrel......

Art galleries have sprung up like weeds in Culver City over the last several years, but the landscape remains ever shifting. While a few have recently shuttered (thanks, global economic collapse!), others, like Thinkspace and Carmichael Gallery, have just...

Can a television series jump the shark in the first episode? Bravo's new, awkwardly titled reality-contest show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist," which debuts Wednesday at 11 p.m., doesn't merely argue in the affirmative. The plot also gives......

A giant bulb atop the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood. A letter denying a Mexican citizen a visa plastered across the facade of the Geffen Contemporary. The words “leave the land alone� scrawled by plane across the sky. There's been a striking u...

George Eastman introduced the user-friendly Kodak camera in 1888 with the slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest.� Nearly a century later, in 1972, Dr. Edwin Land unveiled the Polaroid SX-70, upping the offer from conveniently returned photos.....

Like a slap in the face to summer sunshine, the group show “Everlasting Gobstopper� at Michael Benevento is a dark, sticky concoction of sex, drugs, death and decay. It’s also a gender-bending funhouse-style romp that takes an incisive look at......