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The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art
In today’s algorithm-driven world what has become of embodied eroticism, of desire, of seeking and celebrating beauty, of intimate vulnerability, or vulnerable intimacy?
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Required Reading
This week: The Indigenous woman in Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, Brutalist speakers, a new mural in SF, horses as healers, and can we really speak to animals?
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Affordable Los Angeles Art to Shop This Holiday Season
These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.
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A Gaza Biennale Takes Shape Amid Loss and Ruin
The show will center “the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian story, and the Palestinian cause,” said artist Tasneem Shatat.
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Weaving Through the History of Diné Textiles
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving.
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600+ Works by Met Workers Go on View in Largest-Ever Staff Show
The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935.
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Danny Moynihan’s Landscapes Look Back at Us
His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson Predicted Our Digital Hellscape
The video art pioneer has been warning us from the start that the more advanced digital tech becomes, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions.
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Required Reading
This week: a queer Black architect and her archives, the cozy tech aesthetic, “paleo-artists,” honest reviews of elementary school plays, nonsensical design, and much more.
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Art That Rides the Radio Waves to Resistance
In Broken Boxes artists share stories about their lives and experiences instead of relying solely on institutional didactics to “explain” what their work is about.
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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play
Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.
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In Los Angeles, Queer Sci-Fi Is a Universe Unto Itself
A visually enthralling show lays bare the links between science fiction and the occult, realms where being begins from a place of transgression.