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The Finley is Los Feliz's Little Secret

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer has been thinking small. She has no clients, no opening hours, and her gallery is hardly the size of a jail cell. You can find it in the artsy, more bourgeois than... More »
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OOO AHH MMM ... Julia Chiang Ltd Edition Just in Time for V-Day

Julia Chiang, one of our favorite artist friends who has presented her work at fun little places like Deitch Projects, the New Museum Shop, OHWOW, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, Tina Kim... More »
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Standard Talks Goes Inside New Museum Triennial

Standard Talks is our reoccurring cultural forum where we partner up with various cultural institutions to present fascinating panel discussions covering a wide range of topics, from crime... More »
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MAD MEN Ad-Men MAD Over Subway Graffiti Ads

And by “mad” we mean excited. Well we don’t know for sure, but they should be, as this has “CLEVER GORILLA MARKETING” written all over it. Season 5 of Mad Men is... More »
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TO DO This Week: Juergen Teller at Lehmann, Animal Loving at the Zoo

NEW YORK: Just in time for Fashion Week, one of our favorite downtown galleries, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (201 Chrystie Street) is showcasing the works of legendary German fashion photog,... More »
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Pacific Standard Time Poster Giveaway

Last week The Standard, Hollywood joined forces with LA><ART and participated in The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival by turning over their parking garage to a... More »
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The Only Constant Is Change: My New Logo

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is most famous for his doctrine of change being central to the universe. He thought that the only the thing that remains the same is that everything... More »
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Artist Liz Glynn, Destroyer of Cities, Sets Sights on Troy

Liz Glynn arrived in Los Angeles five years ago on a track familiar to many artists: flee chilly, cramped New York and earn an MFA in the sunny, interdisciplinary pastures of CalArts. Since... More »
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See Exclusive Out-Takes by Cara Stricker

You may have noticed over on our Tumblr, some sexy, romantic polaroids courtesy of Australian fashion photographer Cara Stricker, who has been kind enough to casually leak these LoveWant... More »
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Graphic of the Day: Donny Miller

It’s been that kind of Tuesday, let us tell you. More »
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TO DO This Week: Winter Antiques Show, Printmaking, Carol Channing

New York It’s sort of like Antiques Roadshow, except with cocktails and everyone went to boarding school or some iteration of “Country Day.” The Young Collectors Night is... More »
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Tackling This (Massive) L.A. Art Week

As one of LA’s busiest art weeks of the year gears up, we had Bettina Korek, the city’s consummate culture plotter behind ForYourArt give us the who, what, when and where … ... More »
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Art In The Parking Space

Parking in LA can be ridiculous and everyone knows that a good parking space is a precious gem. With that in mind, The Standard, Hollywood decided to give a bunch of artists their very own... More »
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TO DO This Week

Now that most of you are fully recovered after the long weekend, you’re ready for an action packed week. Besides what’s happening at all The Standards, here are key things to do... More »
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Graphic of the Day: Dali's Surrealist Cookbook

Published in 1971 and officially entitled, Les Diners de Gala, this spectaculiar “cookbook” filled with elaborate food still lifes, original drawings and paintings by “The... More »
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Ai WeiWei's Sunflower Seeds

We at The Standard hotels are big proponents of the arts. You know this. Art is what keeps the world on its toes and in constant contemplation of its surroundings and inner workings. The... More »
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Think Pink! Buff Monster Stamps his Signature Style on 6th Street

You might say Buff Monster is not a run of the mill street artist - it’s not every day you run into a guy so passionate about pink whose work prominently features puffy ice cream cones.... More »
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Produce an Art Installation in One Easy (& Free) Step

Last fall when french artist JR won the coveted TED prize, we were delighted to see his work pop up all over LA and speculate as to where it would appear next. We checked in with him while... More »
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TO DO This Week

Happy Monday! This To Do list marks the first To Do list of the year (since last week we couldn’t really DO anything as we were still recovering from New Year’s Eve and in fact 2011... More »
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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time has finally released the long-awaited Ice Cube celebration of the work of Charles and Ray Eames and we have to say, it was worth the wait! Check it out as... More »
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Chris Habib Goes Deep Inside Twitter with his New Book, PLAGIARIST

Chris Habib is one of the few artists we know who deserves to be filed under “interdisciplinary.” The history of his wonderfully subversive creations are too long to list, so we... More »