Book Review
The Secret Life of LA’s Small Museums
With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches.
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Art Review
Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia
Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal.
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More Medieval Texts Were Scribed by Women Than Previously Believed
A new study “provides statistical support for the often-overlooked contributions of female scribes over time,” said researcher Åslaug Ommundsen.
Art Review
“Work From Home” Takes on New Meaning at CalArts’s Postgrad MFA Show
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.
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The Riotous Variety of Brazilian Modernism
A show of 10 artists working from the 1910s to ’70s demonstrates that the movement was much more diverse than its most notable names suggest.
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NYC Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison
She was also ordered to forfeit $6.4 million and pay over $9 million in restitution for defrauding more than a dozen clients.
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Miami Beach Mayor Pulls Motion to Defund Cinema Screening No Other Land
Dozens of people, including former Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman, spoke against a resolution to shutter O Cinema at a city commission meeting today.
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Could Hilma af Klint’s Works Be Removed From Public View?
The artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair stressed in an interview with Hyperallergic that the works should only be seen by “spiritual seekers.”
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Can Porn Be Art? Erika Lust Thinks So
In her immersive VR installation, the feminist pornographer asks viewers to interrogate their desire.
Guide
10 Exhibitions to See in San Francisco This Spring
An overdue retrospective of Ruth Asawa, Wayne Thiebaud’s art historical influences, Susan Weil’s otherworldly experiments, and more.
Art Review
The Shapeshifting Paintings of Kelly Sinnapah Mary
The various iterations of the artist’s schoolgirl avatar allude to a burgeoning womanhood at a crossroads of celestial being and commonality.
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This Brooklyn Artist Has a Plan for Tesla’s Shitty Cybertrucks
Fola Fia’s satirical street signs draw attention to abuses of power, from Elon Musk to Andrew Cuomo to the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.