MAK Center

L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit

2013-05-16 06:00:00

"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...

With modern architecture spotlighted, PST series looks beyond landmarks

2013-03-08 06:00:00

There's sure to be much to pore over in "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990," the ambitious anchor show of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series on modern architecture in and around Los Angeles. But it's on the periphery of this giant...

Southern California Close-Ups: West Hollywood, Fairfax, Wilshire, Koreatown

2012-06-05 10:20:00

First published on Oct. 30, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown, and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we...

Los Angeles: What to see, where to eat and stay

2011-10-30 00:00:00

WHERE TO STAY Farmer's Daughter, 115 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles 90036; (800) 334-1658 or (323) 937-3930, http://www.farmersdaughterhotel.com. 66 rooms. Doubles, $189-$269, more for the three suites. Adjoins Tart restaurant. London West Hollywood...

Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead

2011-12-05 16:34:31

John Lautner designs open during Palm Springs Modernism Week

2012-02-10 16:34:33

'Pacific Standard Time': Exhibitions to keep an eye on

2011-09-18 00:00:00

A few of the 60-plus shows have already opened, but "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980" officially gets launched Oct. 1 and 2 with a trio of major surveys opening at the Getty, MOCA and LACMA. Here's an annotated list of some of the more...

Southland arts venues

2011-09-14 16:52:00

18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 453-3711, 18thstreet.org A + D Architecture and Design Museum 6032 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 932-9393, http://www.aplusd.org American Museum of Ceramic Art...

PST, A to Z: ‘Eames’ at A+D Museum, ‘Sympathetic’ at MAK Center

2011-10-11 16:32:50

Eames House, Lovell Beach House open this weekend

2011-10-12 16:33:58

Small Schindler house in Inglewood remodeled for a new era

2011-11-04 16:34:06

PST, A to Z: Moments to remember, so far

2011-11-16 16:33:06

For insight into Modernist pioneer and L.A. emigre Rudolph Schindler, check out the bare walls and simple geometry of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (a.k.a. the Schindler House, 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood; www.makcenter.org), which he designed as a two-family home in the 1920s.

2012-07-12 10:53:54

The MAK Center , in residence at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, occasionally presents events and panels whose connection to L.A. architecture and urbanism is tough to fathom. Not so its smart, ambitious program commissioning contemporary artists to produce billboard designs that then went

2010-12-15 17:24:02

Caltech welcomes another piece of unapologetically contemporary architecture to go with Thom Mayne's Cahill Center, which opened earlier this year. Designed by the L.A.

2009-09-11 08:10:54