Performers bleed for art Burden delivers performance art innovative shot in the arm By Nisha Gopalan On Nov. 19, 1971 at 7:45 p.m., performance artist Chris Burden stood in anticipation while his friend, 15 feet away, shot him in his left arm with a .22-caliber rifle. Read more...

‘This is Halloween’ By Lael Loewenstein It’s Halloween again, and that means it’s time to rent last year’s feature smash, Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. An astonishing combination of ghouls, effects and stop-motion technical wizardry, the recently-released video is the perfect Halloween treat. Read more...

Performance artists’ bodies, minds go to extreme with art genres, self-mutilation By Nisha Gopalan Paints, pencils and plaster are generally assumed to be the tools of the traditional artist. Read more...

Masochist Flanagan endures pain for the artistic pleasure By Nisha Gopalan "Sewn up and nailed to a two-by-four," reads the caption written by performance artist Bob Flanagan for a 1989 "Auto-erotic SM" performance. Read more...

Accomplished musician Gothoni returns to L.A. By John Mangum Not many classical musicians can say they’ve received $500,000 for their talents. Pianist Ralf Gothoni can. His extraordinary playing earned him the generous Gilmore Award, which helped expose Gothoni to a wider audience. Read more...

Vibraphonist keys up old jazz sound By John Mangum When people think of jazz instruments, they think of the trumpet, the saxophone and the piano. Way down there on the list the vibraphone eventually turns up. Read more...

No pain, no gain Broderick undergoes ‘torture’ to work with Hopkins in ‘Welville’ By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff Matthew Broderick’s character Will Lightbody in The Road to Wellville is akin to James Caan’s author in Misery. Read more...