Guide
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for October 2020
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
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Books
Women Concrete Poets Who Pushed Against the Limits of Language (and Patriarchy)
Focusing on 50 artist-writers often overshadowed by their male contemporaries, Women in Concrete Poetry breaks from more traditional histories, much like the innovative figures featured.
News
Archeologist Raises Alarms Over Azerbaijan’s Shelling of an Ancient City
An archeological site that was founded in the 1st-century BCE is threatened by the outbreak of violence by Azerbaijan against the Armenian region.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the story of New York librarian Anne Carroll Moore, the disaster facing NYC restaurants, the rise of anti-Asian bias in the US, the story of a census worker, Uyghur poetry, and more.
Books
Justine Kurland's Female Utopia
In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.
Art
Jan Harrison's Dream Animals
To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“If I have to be discarded, let it be in the beautiful green space of this painting.”
Art
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?
Art
Rivane Neuenschwander's Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World
Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
Art
An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own
In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism.
Art
How the Invisible Power of Protocol Regulates the Day-to-day
This year’s Vera List Center Forum will turn attention to the systems, structures, and language that undergird every aspect of our lives.
News
Two Years After His Murder, Jamal Khashoggi Images Projected Onto DC Buildings
Images of the murdered journalist and other political prisoners were projected onto the Saudi Embassy, Trump International Hotel, Washington Post headquarters, and more.