Bruce Conner

"I was a beatnik, and then I was a hippie, and before that I was a bohemian," a sky-high Dennis Hopper confided to Merv Griffin on television one night in 1971, in a clip you can see on YouTube. On the opposite couch, Willie Mays uncomfortably refilled...

Mysticism isn’t new to art, having prompted (among other things) the emergence of pure abstraction into the Modernist lexicon more than a century ago. At Michael Kohn Gallery, a group exhibition of about 30 paintings, sculptures, video, prints and...

The language of excavation is familiar to fans of late Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo. She famously spent eight years from 1958 to '66 both building up and digging into the surface of a massive abstract painting-sculpture ultimately known as "The Rose."...

Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is......

Some artists find inspiration in pop singers: Andy Warhol replicated Elvis Presley in silkscreens; Jeff Koons immortalized Michael Jackson in porcelain sculptures; and Jim Dine collaborated with the Beatles. For New York-based artist Will Cotton, the...

Christopher Knight reviews Agnieszka Brzezanska at Michael Benevento Gallery...

Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 1 Where: The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Price: Free Info: (310) 206-8013 Part 2 Where: REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St., L.A. When: 8:30 p....

In a two-night event at separate venues, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, REDCAT and the Los Angeles Filmforum present two programs of the film work of artist Bruce Conner, who passed away in 2008 at 74. This is an increasingly rare opportunity to...

Ten seconds. Count it: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Ten seconds was roughly how long it lasted. Nobody had a stopwatch, nothing can be proven definitively, but that's the consensus. The tornado that swooped through Utica at...

The first exhibition of Bruce Conner's work since his death last year zeros in on the 1970s. It's a peculiar choice for a show and one that Conner, an irascible malcontent, would probably love. His works from that decade are......

"Dennis Hopper Double Standard" opened Sunday at the Geffen Contemporary, the Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo warehouse. A sense of melancholy hangs over the late Hollywood maverick's photographs, paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works....

It was a year ago, late on a June gloom Venice afternoon, when I last sat down with Dennis Hopper. We had been working for more than 18 months on a publication of his photographs for Taschen Books. It was our last meeting before the book went to print,...