Christopher Knight LAT
@knightlat
Former Los Angeles Times art critic; 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism & Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism. Pro-woke, pro-DEI
Pew says a majority of Americans (57%) express low confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public. Tonight they're partying with a fascist who has worked to destroy journalism. Trump has a Pew approval rating of 34%.
Excellent cropping: Yes, that is Cankles’ cankle, glimpsed just above and to the right of the 6 in 2026. Perfect.
"Leviticus" is an intense horror movie in which gay 'conversion therapy' practiced by Christian fundamentalists is the deadly work of Satan. Genuinely scary (one scene made me jump) and compelling performances. variety.com/2026/film/co...
Today's forecast: 109 degrees. The coral bush loves the heat.
Illuminating Catherine Wagley piece in Art in America on the death rattle of journalistic art criticism. (And thanks for the kind words!) The genre launched in 1863 with publication of Charles Baudelaire's "The Painter of Modern Life" in Le Figaro. What's next? www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Los Angeles, 5/27/26. This station is notorious for setting sky-high prices. Still...
Now he's got neck cankles, too. His body is just filling up with fluids. Buh-bye, m'fer.
Ananda Coomaraswamy famously said museums are where we proudly display the artifacts of a way of life that has become impossible. A new mass transit subway stop nextdoor to a car museum makes a terrific A1 photo in today’s LA Times, by Carlin Stiehl.
Twenty years ago, Chris Hedges published the bestseller "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." The book is more timely than ever.
This building at Radford Studios, which Netflix is poised to buy, is one of my favorite Brutalist designs in LA. From the street, the expansive glass corners italicize the prestige of "the corner office."
"Ezekiel's Vision," the apocalyptic scene our drunk Sec. of War Crimes Pete Hegseth thought he was talking about in his ignorant "Pulp Fiction" prayer, is the subject of the final painting, c. 1518, in the Met museum's great Raphael show
The Cesar Chavez statue is encased in a plywood box on the campus of Fresno State University in Fresno on Wednesday. (Tomas Ovalle / For The LA Times)
Eduard Manet, The Rue Mosnier with Flags, 1878; Getty Museum
Look at these two ignorant assholes. Per military uniform regulations, personnel in uniform salute, while non-uniformed personnel (including veterans) should place their right hand over their heart. Regs don’t mention wearing a baseball cap.
Trump calls for overthrow of government -- ours. The NYT (of course) forgot to mention that this attack is illegal, since Congress authorizes war, not the executive.
One hundred sixty five years later, we are still fighting the Confederacy.
In order to comply with Kristi "Papers, Please" Noem's fascist directive to have our proof of citizenship ready at all times, I'm stocking up on papers. (Hoping I can find 2-ply.)
Administration's have always had a mix of good & bad -- until now. Not one person in the trump administration's top tier is a decent human being. Not one. So here we are.