Art
Three LA Shows Offer Visions of Horror and Fantasy
Three exhibitions currently on view in Los Angeles explore horror, dark fantasy, and the occult, which is perfect timing for this Halloween season.
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Required Reading
This week, a queer black Minimalist, Trump fact-checks, Shakespeare gets a co-author, US pop culture's black male problem, and more.
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Weekend Words: Forge
"A bad forgery's the ultimate insult."
Books
Reader’s Diary: David Beech's ‘Art and Value’
What in the world is art worth?
Music
Singer-Songwriters Confess Their Feelings: Mitski, Nick Cave, Jamila Woods, Angel Olsen
When personal expression is your aesthetic mode, then aesthetic quality depends on quality of personality.
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Scrap Master
Imagine the wayward progeny of the textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers and the Mexican geometric artist Gunther Gerzso, experimenting with the wild palette generated by a computer, and you get a glimpse into what Martha Clippinger is up to.
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Crowd Control
Robert Birmelin’s paintings and drawings of a world going haywire bring together all sorts of visual possibilities, including multiple focal points, compressed juxtapositions of near and far, clearly defined details beside blurred and partially transparent passages.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Billy Al Bengston
“Practically everything I do takes ten years for people to get,” Billy Al Bengston says — perhaps a reason why several of his 1950s and ‘60s exhibitions have recently been re-staged.
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Bold Spirits: The Jamaican Intuitives Ras Dizzy and Leonard Daley
Both Ras Dizzy and Leonard Daley were key figures in a group of artists who came to prominence in Jamaica several decades ago. Collectively, they became known as the “Jamaican Intuitives.”
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“A Chance, A Voice”: Daniel Heyman Reimagines American Narratives
Daniel Heyman’s layered paintings, prints, and portraits possess an almost decorative lightness that often belies a more crucial and devastating truth.
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Kate Levant's Chicago Witches
Formally, Kate Levant’s work has become more rigorous and complex since Blood Drive, and the art-activism of that show has given way to encoded references touching on sociopolitical issues.
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The Political Abstractions of Beverly Buchanan
The argument driving this engrossing show is that Buchanan was actually a thematically ambitious and multi-faceted artist who participated in the avant-garde movements of her day, bringing to them a distinct perspective informed by her sense of identity as black and female.