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The Untamed Jungles of Vivian Suter’s Abstract Paintings
While the ecological aspect of Suter’s work is particularly timely, her obvious enjoyment of pure color and form makes her artworks all the more enduring.
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UNESCO and Google Demonstrate How Climate Change Threatens Five Heritage Sites
Heritage on the Edge, a collaboration between Google and UNESCO, highlights the ways that climate change threatens five existing heritage sites, including Rapa Nui, Easter Island, and Edinburgh.
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LA's Spring/Break Art Show Is Delightfully Garish and Over-the-Top
Working under the theme “In Excess,” participants put together maximalist installations at a former produce market and textile manufacturing site in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Required Reading
This week, a new Banksy, LACMA is in bad shape, watch the Oscar-winning short animation film, Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, and more.
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Kehinde Wiley Seizes the Throne
Wiley shows us that a Black man can indeed take the place of Napoleon.
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Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
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What Lies Between Jokes and Art
Both are prone to the response, “I don’t get it.”
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Henry Moore, Bill Brandt, and Where They Intersect
Throwing together a sculptor and photographer and hoping for a spark.
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Can an Artist Be Compulsive and Deliberate?
One of many captivating and delicious things about Harry Roseman's drawings is that he has dissolved the boundary between madness and rationality.
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The Wonderfully Perplexing World of Gladys Nilsson
Nilsson's paintings come across as youthful and wise, a rare combination in any art.
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This Year, Frieze Los Angeles Feels Grand, Celebratory, and Actually Kind of Fun
This year’s iteration drives painted sports cars into the showroom, disguises booths as furnished apartments, and even houses a James Turrell skyroom.
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An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.