Arts
Lilly Fowler
Can free photos save the art business?
Atlanta Gallerist Jennifer Schwartz thinks so. And to prove it, she took her entire gallery on the road to the Venice art walk.
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From the heart of Egypt's revolt, The pulse of artistic life
Egypt's capital has been associated with protest and political upheaval, but an arts festival attempts to clear away the dust and revitalize a once-glorious cultural hub.
Mike Sheehan's Sketchbook: LA Opera rehearsing 'Tosca'
Artist Mike Sheehan spent a day at rehearsals for Los Angeles Opera's rendition of 'Tosca' and was amazed to find a laid back, convivial atmosphere at the opera.
Picture This: Donna DeCesare gets inside the world of Central American gangs
Photographer Donna DeCesare joins the show to talk about her work from the war zones of Central America to the ganglands of Los Angeles.
In France, a renewed push to return art looted by Nazis
Nearly seven decades after the end of World War II, the Internet and improved technology have helped locate the rightful owners of art looted by the Nazis, but it's still a painstaking process.
Commentary: getting skeptical about LACMA's new redesign plan
What is wrong with the old museum?
Long hidden, Vatican painting linked to Native Americans
A newly cleaned painting in the Vatican dating to 1494, may be the first European depiction of Native Americans. The painting had been largely ignored for more than 500 years.
Eat. Drink. Art.
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery will hold their annual benefit and silent auction this Saturday at the Barnsdall Art Park.
Inside the lab of an electron microscope photographer
David Scharf is one of the world's leading names in electron microscope photography: those giant, luminescent photos of tiny things like bugs, dust, and nerves.
Picture This: Mark Laita captures the beauty of nature's deadliest serpents
Mark Laita makes his living as a commercial photographer, you've likely seen his work on products ranging from the iPhone to Gatorade. But his passion is portraits of everything from people and peonies to seahorses and snakes.
Picture This: Rocker Graham Nash captures 50 years of 'Visual Harmony'
On tap this week, we'll speak with someone not well known as a shutterbug, singer/songwriter Graham Nash. During his 50-year career as a rock star, Nash was also almost always taking pictures.
In gritty Sao Paulo, artists take to the streets
Brazil's largest city is more about business than art. But a new crop of creators is trying to change that by sprucing up public spaces.
A charioteer statue at the Getty Villa shows Greece wasn't just Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
Historians used to think of Athens, Sparta, and Corinth as the real thing, and their Italian colonies as backwaters of little importance. Now, they believe some of the highest advancements of Greek art (and even science) were happening not in the great Attic cities but on Greek civilization’s westernmost fringes. Like Sicily.
Spirituality and Sprite, aisle 1? What an artist sees in Wal-Mart
Artist Brendan O'Connell's paintings find beauty in a cathedral of American consumerism. His thoughtful, unironic paintings of life inside Wal-Mart stores reflect on our relationship to brands and the search for "transcendence" in a shopping cart.
Interview: Harry Shearer on 'Le Show' being taken off the air in LA (audio)
“Le Show,” a public broadcasting institution hosted by Harry Shearer since 1983, was removed from KCRW’s broadcast schedule effective immediately earlier this week.
