Exhibition of the week
To Improvise a Mountain
Painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays fictional people in made-up settings. Where does she get her haunting ideas? Here she reveals her inspirations from Walter Sickert to Bas Jan Ader.
MK Gallery,…

To Improvise a Mountain
Painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays fictional people in made-up settings. Where does she get her haunting ideas? Here she reveals her inspirations from Walter Sickert to Bas Jan Ader.
MK Gallery,…

On Thursday evening, Dôen returned to Mother Wolf for its annual holiday fundraiser benefiting Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, welcoming a fashion-forward and film-heavy crowd for a gathering rooted in advocacy as much as celebration. The…

Jello Biafra, former Dead Kennedys frontman and outspoken Bay Area punk icon, is parting with a car as storied as his career: his 1989 Toyota Celica GT convertible.
After nearly three decades as his daily driver, the blue droptop is now up for a…

Mark SavageMusic correspondent
20th Century StudiosIt’s no secret the Avatar films are a gigantic technical feat – pushing the boundaries of cinematography, animation…

The opposite is true on Avatar.
“Jim [Cameron] still believes that the good things take time. And as a composer, having that ability to refine and to make something special is something that is rare these days.”
The director also went to great…

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square have kicked off their annual Christmas concerts on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Tony Award-winning actress Stephanie J. Block and her husband, Broadway and television star…

Rather than focusing on individual skills alone, the SCA encourages students to develop their own aesthetics as artists, according to van Gaalen.
“You get so much more of a foundation here,” she explains. “It’s not only about singing,…

Explaining his reasoning at the time, he told of the physical toll wrestling had taken on his body.
His career has seen him undergo several operations, including on his neck, pec and triceps, with Cena saying in interviews that his “body hurts”…