Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This July
Mungo Thomson examines the mundane, Esiri Erheriene-Essi reflects on Black life, Llyn Foulkes satirizes Americana, and more.
Matt Stromberg
Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. He is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic and is also an associate instructor in Art at Mt. San Jacinto College.
Features
Revealing the Secrets Within a Hulking Tony Smith Sculpture
Freshly installed at the new LACMA building ahead of the museum’s spring reopening, the massive artwork resembling an abstract spider offers a link to the past.
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LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
The Pussy Riot co-founder undergoes a 10-day durational performance in a recreation of a cell in Police State.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season.
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LA’s $1B Lucas Museum Lays Off 22 Employees
The institution co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson cut both full- and part-time workers ahead of its 2026 opening.
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Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair
The diverse array of printed matter on view points to the role of small publishers in archiving and restoring lesser-told histories, preventing them from being forgotten.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.
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John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81
For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts.
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Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City
Created in 1979 by the East Los Streetscapers, the painting on the wall of a local DMV was a rare example of Latine representation in images of space and STEM.
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LA’s Newest Museum Pays Homage to an Iconic Bar
Musée du Al is the creation of Marc Kreisel, founder of Al’s Bar, the legendary watering hole and hub for artists in pre-gentrification downtown.
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LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87
His practice was driven by a constant striving to reframe how we see works of art and the world around us.