Painter Ken Gun Min, who mixes oil painting and Korean pigments with collected beads and vintage crystal on raw canvas, reckons with cultural assimilation and identity in L.A.

On September 5, Lehmann Maupin gallery opens “Liza Lou: Painting,” an exhibition of new abstract works that crank up the bravado of Abstract Expressionism by using her signature beads as paint.

A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

A gun, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a splatter, a million beads. With these details, the California artist Liza Lou tells you stories. And just a minuscule bead, she explains, is like an underlined ...