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A Goodbye to LA MOCA at the Pacific Design Center
MOCA PDC, which closed this month, deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.
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Bridging the Diverse Foundations of 20th-Century Asian Art
This landmark exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary finds unexpected resonances among disparate Asian countries.
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NüVoices of the Chinese Diaspora Share Performance and Literature
Tomorrow night at the Museum of Chinese in America, NüVoices members come together for an evening of storytelling, poetry, music, and more.
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A Photography Exhibition Corrects a Mainstream Museum's Failure
Our Land, mounted as a reply to a controversial show at the Brooklyn Museum, features contributing artists from North Africa and West Asia and their diasporic communities.
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Art on Paper Fair Celebrates the Tactile While Resisting Nostalgia
Featuring 3D collages made from Batman comics, sculptures carved from archaeology books, and massive archways built from recycled paperbacks, Art on Paper 2019 celebrates the fine art potential of an undervalued material.
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A Showcase of Hard-to-Categorize Art Projects in San Pedro
Over 40 artist-run spaces, experimental arts organizations, and independent galleries will set up shop in a decommissioned gun battery at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
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Artists Illuminate the Catastrophic Future of Rising Sea Levels
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta activated three synchronized lines of light to illuminate the future's projected high tide if climate change progresses at its current pace.
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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
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After a Mural of Colin Kaepernick Is Demolished, Several Take Its Place
Just before the Super Bowl in Atlanta a mural of Kaepernick and the wall it was painted on was demolished, raising the question whether there was an anti-Colin Kaepernick conspiracy at work.
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The Undiscussed Sexual Exploitation Buried in Matisse’s Odalisque Paintings
So ingrained is exploitation in our understanding of female sexuality within (and outside of) art history that incredibly basic readings recede into the background and are deemed somehow radical.
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Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing
The OG Experience amplified the voices most directly affected by mass incarceration, putting the spotlight on artists thoughtfully grappling with the prison industrial complex.
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A Surreal Landscape Transforms the Garbage Scattered in Beirut’s Streets
This is an imaginary landscape crafted by humans, but the urban dweller will recognize it as scarily quotidian.