With rising rents threatening to push Self Help Graphics & Art from its Boyle Heights headquarters, the nonprofit center that has long nurtured noted Latino artists has secured a solution: It bought the building. The cost: $3.6 million. The community arts center, which emerged from the 1970s Chican..

More than two months since “Black Panther” smashed all expectations about comic book films, Marvel is set to unleash its most comic book movie to date with “Avengers: Infinity War,” a crossover event the studio touts as 10 years, three phases and 18 pictures in the making. The reviews are in, and....

“All my mom did is say she was black and people lost their minds.” This is how Franklin, the then-13-year-old son of Rachel Dolezal describes the socio-political brouhaha his mother created almost three years ago when it was revealed that she — a woman who identifies as black and led the NAACP...

An unforgettable encounter with Glenda Jackson. Laurie Anderson reinvents the book tour. And the loss of artist and photographer Laura Aguilar, whose subjects were her own body and Chicano identity. For Carolina Miranda, who is taking a well-deserved vacation, I’m Laurie Ochoa, arts and entertainmen..

The painter's new LACMA show has 82 portraits, a range of faces that include art patrons and museum curators as well as his housekeeper and cook. When you're drawing someone else, Hockney says, "it's their mood and your mood together that creates whatever's there."

MoviePass, the controversial subscription service that lets people see multiple movies in theaters for a monthly fee, is facing another backlash from customers over its policies. On Friday, the New York-based service upset some customers by demanding they take photos of the movie tickets they buy....

Even as he makes his feature directing debut this week with the release of “The Week Of” on Netflix, Robert Smigel already has a long legacy in the world of comedy. He was a writer for “Saturday Night Live” — including the “Saturday TV Funhouse” cartoons — created and performed the Triumph the...