Art
Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
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Art
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time-Traveling Lens
Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.
Art
The Eternal Life of Stone in Art
It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.
Art
The Material Remains of Memory
All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.
Art
In SoCal, All Freeways Lead to Tovaangar
"It is our responsibility — whether we are Native or not — to educate ourselves about whose land we are on,” writes artist Cara Romero.
Art
Paula Rego’s Animal Farm
To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.
Art
The Aesthetic Allure of Motherboards and Microchips
Through textural, analog works that neither beep nor boop, artist Analia Saban has crafted a poetic commentary on our digital existence.
Art
Armenian Artists Contemplate Notions of Home and Belonging
Much of Remain in Light jumps back and forth between Los Angeles and Armenia, underscoring the blurriness of living in diaspora.
Books
The Tarotic Roots of Leonora Carrington’s Art
Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.
Art
Erica G. Peralta Looks at Restaurants From the Inside Out
Restaurants are restorative, perhaps, for those eating, but they can also be grueling places of labor that tax workers’ bodies.
Art
Mika Rottenberg’s Critique of Contemporary Object Culture
All the little things we buy that look simple come from somewhere thanks to a series of interlocking, complex chains and sequences.
Art
Staying Close to the Land With Plein Air Painting
A new show of plein air painting in California offers a compelling take on our relationship to land and what it means to spend time trying to understand the outdoors.