Art
In LA’s Hall of Records, New Artworks Look to the Past and Future
Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana’s recently unveiled commissions make visible some of the city’s overlooked communities and places.
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.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This December
Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more.
Art
Affordable Los Angeles Art to Shop This Holiday Season
These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.
Film
Doug Aitken’s Poetic Tableau of Southern California
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work.
Art
Chicana Artist’s Once-Censored Mural Finds a New Home in LA
Barbara Carrasco’s landmark 80-foot painting portraying the city’s origins and evolution will anchor the Natural History Museum’s new wing.
Art
Maura Brewer Pulls Back the Curtain on Art Investors
The Los Angeles artist examines the contemporary phenomenon of art as asset class by focusing on the financial dealings of a billionaire investor and MoMA trustee.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November
Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.
Performance
Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
News
LA Artists Drape Keffiyeh on Noguchi Sculptures in Protest
David Horvitz and Ali Eyal’s subversive action was a response to the Noguchi Museum’s new policy banning staff from wearing the Arab headscarves.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.
News
Corita Art Center, Dedicated to the “Pop-Art Nun,” Gets New Home in LA
The artist, educator, and activist fused social justice and spirituality in her bold, vibrant works.
Guide
Art and Science Intermix in Dozens of Exhibitions Across LA This Fall
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical.