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Mao, Lenin, Thatcher, and Other Leaders Haunt Art Basel Hong Kong
Adjacent installations by Pio Abad and Shen Shaomin at the fair offer cautionary tales on the perils of communism and the evils of neoliberalism.
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A Dada Exhibition Fetishizes the Movement’s Ephemera
The exhibition is shallow, portraying the movement through familiar pieces and presentations that provided but a façade of its "simultaneity of contradictions."
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Inventive Responses to Labor and Immigration Issues at Human Resources
The group exhibition at Human Resources Making Plans, closing Sunday, engages with increasingly relevant issues surrounding labor, solidarity, and systematic change.
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Endangered Monkeys and the Legacy of the Vietnam War at Ground Floor Gallery
The artist's exhibition, on view through March 26, centers on an endangered species of monkeys in Vietnam and a US military document from 1969.
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Bagels, Burgers, and the Branding of Bushwick
Taking cash from McDonald’s to send artists to Europe to paint billboards, then leveraging those billboards to market the brand seems like a win to a businessman, less so to the artists.
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An Eclectic Assortment of Collages, Cut from Context and Pasted Together
Though the exhibition is a little bit all over the map, there are some real gems to be found here.
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Jason Rhoades’s Outdated and Unchecked Art
Jason Rhoades's work can feel besides the point in today’s context — what might have seemed provocative 10 or 20 years ago now comes off as just loud and obnoxious.
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Photographs that Aestheticize Human Suffering
The people in Alex Majoli's strobe-lit images are treated as metaphors instead of themselves.
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At Roulette, a Performance About Growing Up
Ellen Fisher's performance Time Don't Stop for Nobody, taking place March 23 at Roulette, asks four performers to exchange their experiences of growing up.
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A Roving Festival of Abstract, Experimental Cinema Touches Down in LA
The Punto y Raya Festival (Spanish for "Dot and Line") features the work of over 4,500 artists who focus on "pure form, color, motion and sound."
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The Stories of Asian American Activism in 1970s LA
The Chinese American Museum’s exhibition Roots uses books, posters, films, and music to examine the politicization of Asian Americans.
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Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.