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This week: photographing auras, The Great Gatsby at 100, a dubious de-extinction project, the “cubs” of the Black Panther Party, art historical Drag Race, and much more.
Podcast
How a Chinese-American Artist “Cowboy” Saved Graffiti for Future Generations
An artist, a gallerist, and a curator come together to discuss the legacy of Martin Wong, the self-taught painter who amassed one of the world's most significant street art collections.
News
Abel Rodríguez, Amazon Basin Artist and Plant Expert, Has Died
The Nonuya (Indigenous Colombian) painter was revered for his bright ink-on-paper renderings of the region’s lush flora and fauna and his wealth of inherited knowledge.
News
Trump Will Use Culture Grant Funds to Build “American Heroes” Park
Money from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which just terminated hundreds of grants for organizations, will help build the bizarre sculpture garden, slated to honor figures from Julia Child to Justice Scalia.
Art Review
A World at the Edge of Decay and Other Artistic Imaginings
Aaron Gilbert’s sense of time draws us away from the now to a potential future that we are having trouble envisioning.
Art Review
The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show
Parts I and II of the exhibition demonstrate a vibrant spectrum of aesthetic inquiry — which, like LA’s art scene, resists easy categorization.
News
Hundreds of Museum and Library Grants Terminated Overnight
IMLS’s Trump-appointed director Keith Sonderling cut an estimated over 1,000 grants as the administration continues to decimate arts and culture funding.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I start at 6am when the light is really beautiful.”
News
Max Kozloff, Intrepid Art Critic and Photographer, Dies at 91
The prolific writer penned a seminal essay on Abstract Expressionism in 1973, going on to teach at universities across the United States and cultivate his own photography practice.
Art Review
The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
Art Review
Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was
By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.