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Free Clinic Teaches Angelenos How to Repair Damaged Art
Community members brought not just paintings and sculptures, but silverware, family photos, children’s books, jewelry, and even beloved scarves and jackets.
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Book Review
How Painting Saved One of Our Most Iconic Designers
A visit to Michaels craft store helped restore book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund during a deep bout of depression.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I have come to welcome spontaneity.”
News
Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Support At-Risk Trans People
All proceeds from the two-week sale will go to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Trans Income Project.
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MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary Shutters Amid LA Protests
The museum has become the backdrop of ongoing protests against ICE raids in the city. The Broad has also closed its doors.
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LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
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Indian Craft Shop Closure Leaves Complicated Legacy
As the US Department of the Interior looks to preserve the longstanding market’s operation, many see a need to move beyond history.
Art Review
John Wilson Spent a Lifetime Making Blackness Visible
His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art.
Art Review
Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery reveals the artist’s astonishing technical skills, but the wall texts are laugh-out-loud amusing at best and art historically dangerous at worst.
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From a Soho Loft to the World’s First LGBTQ+ Art Museum
In the face of discrimination, harassment, and the AIDS crisis, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art became a beacon for queer creativity.
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Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… Is on View Now at MASS MoCA
Co-organized by the Massachusetts institution and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, this exhibition spans over two decades of Valdez’s work.
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Moss Galleries Presents Beate Wheeler’s Abstract Rhythms: 1960s on 10th Street
A vibrant retrospective of the overlooked color painter who helped define the Tenth Street cooperative gallery scene is on view in Falmouth, Maine.