To keynote speaker Malcolm Baker, Friday’s UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium is exciting. It’s not because in one day, it will feature nine presentations by art history graduate students from across the country. Read more...

At the age of 63, rock “˜n’ roll legend John Cale wants to get funky. The former Velvet Underground creative force has been many things throughout his long career: a child prodigy on classical piano and viola who moved to New York at the age of 21 with the help of composer Aaron Copland; an avant-garde minimalist who collaborated with John Cage; and a violent punk rocker who once cut off a live chicken’s head on stage and threw it into the audience. Read more...

Expansive exhibit paints new portrait of relationship Painters Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro have individually had their works exhibited in museums around the country. But the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885,” marks the first time these close friends have had more than 60 of their paintings displayed side by side in an exhibit chronicling each artist’s influence on the other. Read more...

I’ve really got to hand it to Hideki Matsui. For a professional baseball player, he has pretty respectable musical taste. The New York Yankee outfielder’s favorites include The Who, Lenny Kravitz and the Beatles. Read more...

Stevie Wonder “A Time to Love” Universal Motown Group After 10 years without a new album, many artists would be calling it quits. Turns out Stevie Wonder was just biding his time. Read more...

Frequenters of the Sunset Strip expect to find their live bands at exclusive clubs, not jamming for fans at the local record store. But the latter is often the scene at Sea Level Records, an independent music store owned and operated by Tod Clifford since 2002. Read more...

"Paradise Now" Directed by Hany Abu-Assad Warner Independent Pictures Three men stand on a grassy hill arguing about the evenness of a newly installed car bumper. Read more...