Books
Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
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Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade Looks at the Inevitable and Doesn’t Blink
It is one thing to get lost in a meticulous, intricate work of overlapping abstract patterns, and quite another to have it look back at you.
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Highlights from Los Angeles's New Art Book Showcase, Acid-Free
The Acid-Free Book Market launched Friday evening and continues through Sunday. Here are some highlights.
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The Stories of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair
From Ralph Ziman's massive Ziman sculpture to Uthman Wahaab's painterly critiques of technology, this art fair devoted to contemporary African art is packed with fascinating projects of every kind.
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The Scribes Somehow Survive
The soldiers are killed, and the jesters change their names.
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Wandering the Artist Studios of Dumbo
Open studios events allow a type of intimacy with an artist's work that is rare.
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A Feminist Artist's Postcolonial Animations
Chitra Ganesh's appropriations of traditional Hindu and Buddhist artworks are part homage to the past, part alternate realities and part badass feminist interventions.
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Searching for Redemption in Post-WWII German Art
While Inventur proposes that we seek to understand and empathize with these artists, their biographies constantly nag at the moral centers of the brain.
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The Everyday Politics of Conceptual Art
While Michael E. Smith’s sculptures and installations draw on conceptual art, his practice centers on the objects he uses, and the messy details of life.
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More Galleries Are Leaving the Contested Los Angeles Neighborhood of Boyle Heights
Chimento Contemporary and MaRS are joining the list of galleries relocating from Boyle Heights, a neighborhood long marked by gentrification tensions.
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Washing Down the Canon with Wine and Oysters at TEFAF New York
Amid all the works by familiar white male modernists on view at the plush and posh fair, there are many superb pieces by women and artists from Latin America.