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Looking at Kehinde Wiley and Thomas Gainsborough Side by Side
It is perhaps no surprise that Wiley’s oeuvre is a favorite among curators seeking to inject new relevance into their collection of European masters.
Caroline Ellen Liou
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Painting's Perpetual Death and Rebirth
Stop Painting recognizes art as an impossible endeavor that is perhaps most generative when its conflicts remain unresolved.
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What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature?
Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly.
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When Artists Are Hackers
The question is, what is being hacked?
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These Are the People Who Built LA’s New Chinatown
Like all histories, LA Chinatown’s story is one that is fundamentally about people.
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Navigating Home, the Way Children Might See It
Stuck at home as we have been, Busy Work at Home invites us to rediscover our sense of wonder.
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"Made in LA" Mines the Necessary Performance of Everyday Life
Performance has always been essential as a means of survival to participate in the fiction of America.
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An Artist’s Crash Course in Government
In a series of PSA-style videos, Paul Pescador poses questions about government that quickly unravel into a nightmarishly complex knot of existential crises.
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Gabriel Sanchez’s Cuban Portraits Grapple With Home and Belonging
Sanchez’s most arresting paintings allow the viewer to get lost in a vast expanse of skin.
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A Gut-Wrenching Illustration of the Asian American Experience
Comprised of 15 panels, Ben Sakoguchi’s “Chinatown” is a history lesson in miniature.
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In Never-Before-Seen Drawings, Robert Colescott Satirizes Art History
In his “Complete History of World Art,” Colescott skewers notions around propriety, race, beauty, and art.
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Translating Deaf Culture, Christine Sun Kim Underlines the Difficulty of Interpretation
The artist, who gave an iconic ASL performance at the Super Bowl last year, draws our attention to the struggle of power, ideology, and systems in the juncture of languages.