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Lygia Pape's Tecelares at the Art Institute of Chicago are revelatory. Plus, a play inspired by pho and art inspired by techno.

In February the L.A. Times Book Club is reading "The Violin Conspiracy," a bestseller by musician and music teacher Brendan Slocumb.

Check out L.A.'s new bookstores and Feb. 23 book club night with Brendan Slocumb and 'The Violin Conspiracy.'

Meet the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year, an accomplished group of 15 journalists who will join us in the fall for the return of our in-person fellowship.

Uber's new HQ is all about transparency, until you try to get in. Plus: the show liberating Broadway and "Hadestown" hits L.A. in our weekly arts newsletter.

Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock brought spontaneity to the Oscars. But only the gross kind.

Thousands of people have died in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of their stories.

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), and Iraq war veteran who has also worked in Afghanistan as a conflict analyst, has strongly questioned the intelligence reports coming out of the administration.

Print If you drew a Venn diagram that brought together Charles Eames, Pop Art, commercial printing, social justice movements, the Second Vatican Council and 1960s Los Angeles, only one person could inhabit the space where those areas intersect: Corita Kent. A nun in the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for more than three decades, Sister Mary Corita was a well-known educator and artist dubbed the “Pop Art nun” by the press. A key mentor was Eames; she went on to mentor Sister Ka...

Historic sites for women are rare, but Kent's printmaking sat at the nexus of art, activism and politics. Her work and message couldn't be more timely.