Column: I’m playing an Art Laboe album to counteract the noxious vibe from L.A. City Hall

Memories of El Monte

In 1993, my parents saved up enough money to buy a massive Kenwood home entertainment system complete with gigantic speakers and a five-CD player. I remember the exact year because the first CD I ever […]

Art Laboe death: L.A.’s radio community pays tribute to icon

Art Laboe death: L.A.'s radio community pays tribute to icon

Los Angeles’ music and radio communities are mourning the loss of prolific “Oldies but Goodies” disc jockey Art Laboe, who died on Friday. The Instagram page for his syndicated show, “The Art Laboe Connection,” announced […]

Ancient Egypt unleashed: how the gods, pharaohs, monsters and murderers shattered their silence | Art and design

Also available as a snow globe … the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum.

We are speeding north out of Cairo, careering along fast, wide roads through a desert landscape and out into antiquity. After three hours, we reach Rashid, once known as Rosetta, a port city on the […]

Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on New Album The Art of Survival: Podcast

Bush's Gavin Rossdale on New Album The Art of Survival: Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Gavin Rossdale catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about The Art of Survival and why it ended up being one of Bush’s heaviest albums. The songwriter talks […]

‘Community at its absolute worst’: revisiting the horror of the Salem witch trials | Art

Cotton Mather – The Wonders of the Invisible World, 1693.

“The Salem witch trials are an example of a community at its absolute worst.” This is what Anna Danzinger Halperin, associate director of the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society, answered when […]

‘Hip-hop honeys’ and sitting as a political act: why Tschabalala Self is one of America’s hottest artists | Art

‘I want to make people feel like they have more perspective’ … overseeing production of Seated.

‘Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it. How clearly […]

Brad Pitt and Nick Cave make a surprise art debut in Finland : NPR

Brad Pitt and Nick Cave make a surprise art debut in Finland : NPR

Musician Nick Cave (from left), artist Thomas Houseago and with actor Brad Pitt pose prior to the opening of their joint exhibition, in Tampere, Finland, on Saturday. Jussi Koivunen/Sara Hilden Art Museum, Lehtikuva via AP […]

France’s answer to Banksy: the anonymous street artist filling potholes with colourful mosaics | Street art

Nuart festival - Stavanger 2018 A4

Last year, the studio of the Lyon-based artist known as Ememem received an urgent call from an architectural firm close to the city’s Place Sathonay. Someone was in the process of dismantling a mosaic he […]