After the Boy Scouts of America's national council voted to lift its ban on gay scouts under 18 — anyone gay and over 18 can, awkwardly, still be expelled from
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Gary Baseman's House Party opened up his current exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center to a capacity crowd on Thursday night. Festivities included a DJ set by Shep
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Everyone is a critic. Even taggers. Shepard Fairey, a widely known street artist who often garners mixed reviews, has been panned with graffiti spray-painted over a
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Thank god for nostalgic Hollywood fanboys in the Upper Midwest! As the Associated Press revealed last Wednesday, if it weren't for Minnesota artist and memorabil
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“Everyone's doing it … but it's not vulgar!” If you were one of the lucky people who caught that tagline during the trailer for the 1983 fi
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See also:
*Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the MOCA Gala
*Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble
*Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA
*Stree
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Updated at the bottom with video of the chalking and arrest.
Semi-famous local artist Alexander Schaefer — the same guy whose paintings of burning banks (inclu
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“When the rock is installed, will I stand under it and experience its massive weight?” wondered artist Dai Toyofuku, when I spoke with him him back in M
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A friend of mine who designed her home in Malibu laughed when the men on her design team said they'd put the laundry room in the basement.
“If I'm goi
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Performance art pioneer Marina Abramović caused quite a stir in November with her controversial direction of the 2011 MOCA Gala. Her deployment of nude performers
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U.K.-based performance artist Millie Brown is perhaps best known for drinking colored milk and vomiting it on canvas. In some cases that canvas is Lady Gaga, as Bro
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Village Voice Media commissioned artists associated with the Phoenix-based cultural collective Xico to produce a series of covers for its papers — each one is
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