Interview
Envisioning an Art Museum on the Moon
The Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon has drawn together a group of artists to create work for a speculative museum that might one day exist on the moon.
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Art
The Curator of LA's New ICA on Opening Up the Insular Art World
Despite her unorthodox path, Jamillah James has established herself as a curator to watch.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: protesters called on the Museum of Modern Art to drop a Trump adviser from its board, Italy’s art crime squad recovered a Guercino painting stolen in 2014, and two more works from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove were returned to the heirs of their Jewish owners.
Books
Photographing Palm Springs Modernism by Moonlight
Tom Blachford's photographs in Midnight Modern were taken between midnight and 5am in Palm Springs, illuminated only by the moon.
In Brief
Maryland High School Removes Shepard Fairey Posters, Deeming Them "Anti-Trump"
Though the creators of the We the People posters claim they are non-partisan, administrators maintain that their display on classroom walls is of school policy.
Art
Broken Collages Capture the Secret Lives of Things
Charles Platt's exhibition encrypted messages at Freight+Volume gallery uses personal things to reconstruct a narrative, or at least parts of a story through which a life might be glimpsed.
News
LA Artists and Activists Clash at a Political Action Meeting in Boyle Heights
When the Artists' Political Action Network held its first public meeting, it was met by protesters from the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement.
Film
A Cute but Clawless Documentary on Istanbul's Street Cats
In Kedi, human Istanbulites reflect on their complex but loving relationships with the city's feline inhabitants.
Art
The Culmination of a Crowdsourced, Operatic Performance Experiment
Panoply Performance Laboratory's crowd-sourced opera is entering its final acts.
In Brief
24 Senators Sign Letter Urging Trump to Keep the National Endowments for Arts and Humanities
A group of Democratic, Republican, and independent Senators has signed a letter urging the president not to cut federal funding to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.
Announcement
'A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000' at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
An exhibition composed entirely of paintings by women that attempts to categorize Expressionism in new terms.
Art
LA Art Book Fair 2017 Launches with 300-Plus Presses and Performances
Organized by longtime purveyor of art books and ephemera Printer Matter, the LA Art Book Fair returns to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA this weekend for its fifth annual edition.