It wasn't a good look by any means. After decades of languishing in storage, unseen and censored, Barbara Carrasco's epic 1981 mural L.A. History: A Mexican Pers
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World of Wonder's outrageously subversive slate of programming might be driven by queer sexuality on the surface, but there's a lot more to it than meets the
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This week, an artist builds an Italian fruit stand that's as detailed and eccentric as the real thing, and a tiger embraces a horse?in a painting hanging in Hol
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Beginning in 1978, the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade has become known as the Rose Parade's "twisted sister." Parade marchers wear their zaniest, wildest attire as they
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Last September, a company called Touch launched in Beijing. The share economy is apparently even more popular in China than it is here, so Touch entered the marketpl
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Amid display cases showcasing lifelike silicone limbs and torsos tattooed by some of the industry's preeminent artists, actual sentient tattooed people mingled a
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Chris Kallmyer is an artist. Or a musician. Or both, really. On his website he calls himself a sound artist and performer. In conversation he says he has never had a
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Lezley Saar has always had to explain herself. The 64-year-old painter, daughter of legendary Black Arts Movement artist Betye Saar, only began to pursue art seriou
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A model wears a stool on her head and a carpet on her leg in Boyle Heights, while an artist sets fire to her handiwork in Pomona. Home is where the liver isArtist Me
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Los Angeles is becoming a city where you can see theater that is exciting, vital and original. Some of these plays are experimental: They take on forms that don't lo
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Human relationships are problematic, whoever you are.Imagine you're a gay woman happily partnered with another, and after some years together your beloved informs y
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One of Los Angeles's best-kept cultural secrets is moving. For more than a decade, the Wende Museum, an institution devoted to documenting the history of the Cold Wa
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