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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.
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At SVA, MFA Grads Look Beyond the Pandemic With Resonant Projects
While the pandemic dominated their final year, these artists nonetheless explore broader issues. Here are some highlights.
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New Technology Reveals Hidden Modigliani Portrait
A portion of this hidden painting was uncovered and reconstructed by two scientists.
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Photos Capture Golden Age of Discos "Before Bottle Service and Bland Design"
Artist Adrian Wilson got his start photographing European discos, whose unique fixtures included a glowing brain and TVs to watch other visitors.
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Working With Tobacco, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill Offers Decolonial Possibilities
In her first US solo museum show, Hill invites reflection on tobacco’s mass consumption while underscoring its long Indigenous history.
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Travel to Places “Heavy With History” in Deborah Stratman’s Films
Stratman captures charged, if overlooked, histories of Illinois, from the Trail of Tears to Chicago’s Black Panther headquarters.
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Juneteenth Performances, Art-making Workshops, and More at Creative Time’s Red Stage
“The Red Stage has been a beautiful site for holding our shared grief and finding joy together through it all,” explains co-organizer Diya Vij.