Rachel Maddow and Steve Martin Celebrate Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman at a Wow of a Hammer Museum Gala Featuring Katy Perry   “Wow,” said Steve Martin, on taking the podium at the Oct. 6 at the Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden 2012. (See 30 event pictures in the gallery...

What’s On the Los Angeles Social Calendar Fall 2012? Katy Perry, George Clooney, Stana Katic, Chelsea Handler, Jon Favreau, Elon Musk, Kate Beckinsale, Kirstie Alley, Heidi Klum, Usher, Barry Manilow, Sutton Foster, Maria Menounos and Many More A-Listers on Board   Here’s a sampling of...

Pacific Standard Time Events Bring Out Actors, Artists, Collectors and Others Who would have guessed that more than 60 arts institutions and 70 commercial galleries in Southern California could team up for anything? Yet “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,” which is just...

Bruno Mars Serenaded the Stars, Artists and Collectors at the Hammer Gala     As guests began arriving at the Sept. 24 “Gala in the Garden” at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, actor Neil Patrick Harris of “How I Met Your Mother” perused the upper level art galleries and talked...