Art Review
Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers
The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.
Renée Reizman
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A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.
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Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox
Years before her feminist performance art, she channeled her feelings through a copy machine.
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Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
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California’s New Slang
From airbrushed lettering of lowriders to silkscreen and sign-painting, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language.
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Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.
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LA’s Felix Art Fair Meets Grief With Absurdity
The levity of this year’s edition feels purposeful: Not only will the show not be marred by tragedy, but it will also remind attendees of art's potential to express joy.
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The Nefarious Power of the Unseen
Invisibility: Powers & Perils raises exciting questions around racial, technological, and ecological invisibility, and leaves us asking for more.
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Joseph Beuys Predicted the “Manosphere”
Beuys tackled masculinity through humor and irreverence — but the subjects he parodied are increasingly a fixation for an oppressive segment of the population.
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Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the American West
Out of Site focuses on the scientific tools used to map the West’s resource-rich landscape, and how those technologies have become forces of destruction.
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Artists Unearth Universes in Caltech’s Archives
The artists in Crossing Over were inspired by a century of monumental discoveries from the scientists who have made Caltech one of the world’s most elite research institutions.
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The Relentless Optimism of Beatriz da Costa
Throughout her career, she collaborated with scientists, doctors, and animals, blurring the boundaries between art projects and scientific experiments.