Jayne Cortez

The strange story of the postwar pop standard "Nature Boy" and its enigmatic creator, eden ahbez.

Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson talks Grammy wins with "Black Panther" and Childish Gambino.

A new documentary at the Santa Barbara Film Festival tells the story of local resident and beloved ocean filmmaker Mike DeGruy, a man who explored our world’s oceans and brought the…

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp visits a survey at CSUN and at Edward Cella’s Gallery.

As Hollywood awards season revs up, the LA art scene is also in full throttle.

For his new film ‘Never Look Away,’ director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck spent weeks cozying up to German artist Gerhard Richter, whose remarkable life story inspired the movie.

For all it’s seeming simplicity, the Wooster Group’s latest show is complicated, dense experience.  Let’s start with the  title: “The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State…

The film was directed by Robert Rodriguez, who did “From Dusk Till Dawn" and "Sin City," and it comes by its visual elegance honestly, since the technology derives from James Cameron's…

When ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ showrunner dream hampton was conducting interviews with women who had been in the thrall of the infamous singer-songwriter, she had to choose her words.