Features
Harmonia Rosales Remixes the African Diasporic Pantheon
“I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.
Nereya Otieno
Art Review
Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
Features
An Artist and a Historian Plumb Gynecology’s Hidden Histories
Nao Bustamante and Wendy Kline explore the racist, sexist, would-be-very-illegal-today methods through which we’ve come to understand the medical field.
Art Review
Months After LA Fires, Altadena's Black History Endures
An exhibition at the California African American Museum is both an exercise in reverence and a declaration of resilience for the neighborhood’s artistic community.
Art Review
David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
Art Review
Los Angeles Pays Homage to the Cool Trance of Alice Coltrane
An exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual art.
Art
A Collective Portrait of Black Los Angeles, Told Through Artist Ben Caldwell
This exhibition about the multihyphenate filmmaker is as much about the place he chose to call home and all the people who pepper it with color.
Music
What the Art World Can Learn From Solange
Eldorado Ballroom, a three-night event of performances, was a masterclass in curation.
Book Review
Serenading Entwined Lineages of Black Art and Music
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass.
Art
A Psychedelic Trip Into the Human Body
Meeson Pae’s work creates safe space to contend with the phenomenon of our biological inner-workings and the opulent worlds they create.
Art
Simone Leigh’s Monuments to the Black Femme
Leigh’s survey split between two Los Angeles venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world.
Performance
Social Tensions From Antiquity to the End of the World
The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea.