Happy Friday! It’s that time again—when LAMag gathers some highlights of the events happening imminently around Los Angeles for your last-minute schedule. Into it? Then you’ll probably be a pretty big fan of our Weekend Sales newsletters, and you can subscribe to both and more here. Los Angeles FC v. Austin FC April 8, BMO Stadium In Los Angeles, we absolutely love our sports teams and even more, love our soccer. However, it seems many Angelenos turned European and favor FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and the like. Despite this, many here still hold love for LAFC ..read more

Happy Friday! It’s that time again—when LAMag gathers some highlights of the events happening imminently around Los Angeles for your last-minute schedule. Into it? Then you’ll probably be a pretty big fan of our Weekend Sales newsletters, and you can subscribe to both and more here. WrestleMania April 1, SoFi Stadium Sure, it can be said that the heyday of professional wrestling is now in the past. After all, it has been a while since we’ve seen the likes of The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, and Shawn Michaels grace the ring. However, there is still plenty of fun to be had in simply going to a ..read more

“I’ve really been digging into my childhood memories of the California landscape,” Gajin Fujita tells LAMag on a now-rare sunny March afternoon. He was giving a tour of True Colors, his three-years-in-the-making show that opens Wednesday at L.A. Louver, the august Venice gallery that has represented Fujita for over two decades. For anyone familiar with the artist’s laborious, densely metaphorical work—which resides in the permanent collections of the Hammer, LACMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a Gajin Fujita solo exhibition is a big event because they simply don’t happen that often. “It’s ..read more

Happy Friday! It’s that time again when LAMag gathers highlights of the events happening imminently around Los Angeles for our Weekend Guide—all so you can craft a last-minute schedule. Into it? Then you’ll probably be a pretty big fan of our Weekend Sales newsletters, and you can subscribe to both and more here. Runners participate in the the 37th Los Angeles Marathon in Los Angeles, the United States, March 20, 2022. (Photo by Xinhua via Getty Images) L.A. Marathon March 19, Dodger Stadium If you have been preparing for the nearest marathon, or maybe just always want to cheer on your fr ..read more

In this interview, LA Magazine speaks to dancer, choreographer, and mentor Simone Forti on her self-titled exhibition, Simone Forti, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. LAMag also asked notable art critic Peter Frank to participate in this conversation, as they share an art history connection through the Fluxus movement. Fluxus was a movement that originated in the 1960s and highlighted the artistic process over the finished product. We speak about Simone’s upbringing in Los Angeles and her performative works titled Dance Constructions, go in-depth on some of her contemporar ..read more

Carpenters Workshop Gallery opened in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard a year ago and quickly became known worldwide as a leader in art and design. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dutch designer Maarten Baas on his new exhibition, Play Time, which investigates aspects of youth and conceptions of time. A multifaceted creator, Baas designs interactive learning activities with children in the Netherlands to produce performance-based works that track time in various cities. In this show, he also showcases the astonishing Close Parity collection of furniture that appears to defy gravity ..read more

Happy Friday! It’s that time again when LAMag gathers highlights of the events happening imminently around Los Angeles for our Weekend Guide—all so you can craft a last-minute schedule. Into it? Then you’ll probably be a pretty big fan of our Weekend Sales newsletters, and you can subscribe to both and more here. Counsel, 2022 by Robert Gunderman Place Like You March 11 – April 29, Wilding Cran Gallery There is no shortage of new art exhibitions in Los Angeles, but this week we opted to feature Place Like You: a selection of new paintings by Angeleno artist Robert Gunderman. This installation ..read more

The work of the Philadelphia-born, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Julian Hoeber has long dealt with psychology, architecture, and the way phenomenology is used to explain op art and the particularities of subjective consciousness. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes structural wall reliefs made from plywood and colored string (replicating some merger of instrument and curtain wall), replicas of airport terminals designed for “going nowhere,” and cast concrete doll houses inspired by one that his babysitter—the daughter of legendary modernist architect Louis Kahn—made for him when he was a ch ..read more

Carpenters Workshop Gallery opened in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard a year ago and quickly became known worldwide as a leader in art and design. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dutch designer Maarten Baas on his new exhibition, Play Time, which investigates aspects of youth and conceptions of time. A multifaceted creator, Baas designs interactive learning activities with children in the Netherlands to produce performance-based works that track time in various cities. In this show, he also showcases the astonishing Close Parity collection of furniture that appears to defy gravity ..read more

Happy Friday! It’s that time again when LAMag gathers highlights of the events happening imminently around Los Angeles for our Weekend Guide, all so you can craft a last-minute schedule. Into it? Then you’ll probably be a pretty big fan of our Weekend Sales newsletters. You can subscribe to them here. (Photo by AlienCon) AlienCon March 4 – 5, Pasadena Convention Center The most intriguing and delightful event to grace the Pasadena Convention Center lands again this weekend. AlienCon, a celebration of the weird and wacky world of aliens and outer space investigations, will feature over 50 hours ..read more