Jean-Michel Basquiat

Christopher Knight reviews Damien Hirst's spot-paintings at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills...

Anyone wondering what Jeffrey Deitch's next step will be as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art now has an answer. In two words: street art. Local artists and gallery owners have been whispering about the possibility, and this......

When it comes to L.A. business-getting, Christie's has been on a roll. Earlier this year, the auction house broke records by selling a $106.5-million Picasso nude and a $28.6-million Jasper Johns Flag painting from two Los Angeles estates, those of......

In its big postwar/contemporary sale Wednesday night, Christie's sold $273 million worth of art, thanks in part to three Los Angeles estates. All 11 lots from the late gallery director Robert Shapazian were sold, bringing roughly $34 million. The top........

A weekly look at arts and music programming on television from Thursday to Wednesday: “Live With Regis and Kelly” 9 a.m. Thursday ABC; Jim Belushi discusses his Broadway debut in “Born Yesterday.” “The Pee-wee Herman Show...

Reviews for the artist Julian Schnabel’s latest foray into filmmaking have not been kind. The director of the acclaimed dramatic biographies “Before Night Falls” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is taking his lumps...

April is “Arts Month” on the PBS series “Independent Lens.” From the gritty streets of New York to the garbage dumps of Brazil, from a far-off desert in Uzbekistan to a bizarre backyard in Upstate New York, the show takes a look at...

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“The Artist Toolbox” 10 p.m. Friday, KVCR: Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. “Humanities Through the Arts” 1 a.m. Friday, KOCE: “Painting: Rousseau, the Lovely Dream.” “Humanities Through the Arts” 1:30 a.m....

Larry Mullins’ first L.A. show, at Blythe Projects, has memorable energy and absorbing, street-smart beauty. The artist, now living locally, floats a fragment of verse within each of his pale pinkish, scumbled, sanded, spray-painted panels. The words...

-- Sold / not sold: A 1984 portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol beat estimates by selling for $812,500 and a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat went unsold at a Christie's auction in New York. (Bloomberg)-- Shows must go on:......

Eli Broad says he still hasn't decided between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles as a site for a new museum to house his contemporary art collection. But in a conversation Wednesday with Times editorial board members and reporters, Broad......