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A 1970s Provocative Magazine That Fought Anti-Asian Sentiment
What started as a monthly paper in 1969 geared towards Asian American students at UCLA soon expanded to the greater Los Angeles community.
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Graphics: ✊🏽A History of Design and Activism in California 📐
This edition, produced in collaboration with KCET’s Artbound, celebrates the rich history of artist-activists in the Golden State.
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Required Reading
This week, a sad billionaire park, Paula Rego's abortion paintings, soap bubbles in art, aliens colonizing space, and more.
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Matthew Wong’s Indelible Impressions
Just three years after he first devoted himself to art, Wong assembled an abstract vocabulary to create an entire world that is parallel to ours.
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The Gallery Dealer as Tightrope Walker
Rather than identifying with a style or brand, Klaus Kertess was remarkably independent in his choices, and was not averse to risks.
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Rosemary Mayer’s Art of the Unseen
For Mayer, the passage of time is imbued with a sense of melancholy, of something already lost to the past.
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What to Make of Nero?
An exhibition takes on the notorious Roman emperor, from gleaming marble to roaring flames.
Books
Nathaniel Mackey's Epic Poem
Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.
Books
Poetry at the Intersection of Art and Twitter
The poems in Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount convey a sense that the whole truth of reality is tantalizingly just beyond one’s grasp.
Film
In Remote Russia, Willem Dafoe Confronts His Demons
Abel Ferrara's Siberia is an alternately nightmarish and transcendent journey through the subconscious.
Opinion
What Happened to Electronic Civil Disobedience?
Why have works of net-based protest art been largely forgotten, and is there any merit in dusting them off today?
Film
An In-depth Look at the Art-Pop Music Duo Sparks
Edgar Wright's epic-length documentary The Sparks Brothers preaches to the choir, but the choir will love it.