Your list of must-see exhibitions and art events in Los Angeles this summer, including Judy Baca, Andrea Bowers, Minerva Cuevas, Aram Han Sifuentes, and more.
Caroline Ellen Liou
Caroline Ellen Liou is an Asian-American art worker based in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in contemporary Chinese art and geopolitics at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for June 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Jesse Mockrin, Ken Gun Min, Farah Al Qasimi, and more.
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At CalArts MFA Open Studios, Failure Is an Option
The school’s 2022 cohort was encouraged to fail, get messy, and try new things.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Guide for May 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Simone Forti, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Kevin Beasley, Hayao Miyazaki, and more.
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Alvaro Barrington’s Love Letter to Los Angeles
Beyond a mere homage to LA’s aesthetic vocabulary, Alvaro Barrington sees past the superficiality of Hollywood to celebrate the myth-making at its center.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Guide for April 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Lee Alexander McQueen, Troy Montes-Michie, and more.
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Satisfyingly Tactile Art at Frieze Los Angeles
It is as if, after two years of staring at works on screen, galleries knew that audiences were hungry for artwork so physical, you could devour them with your eyes.
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Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art
Snake whisky still life and other stories tackles the stereotyping, misrepresentation, and appropriation of Indigenous cultures.
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A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.
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A More Expansive Understanding of What It Means to Be Human
N.I.H., short for No Humans Involved, was an acronym used by the LAPD to refer to “young Black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner-city ghettos.”
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Citizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiece
Seeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no history textbook ever could.
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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.