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Yoshie Sakai Goes Clubbin’ With Grandma
Her spotlight on elderly women’s sexuality and energy challenges the images society often projects onto grandmothers as feeble and non-sexual.
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An Unlikely Art Show Pops Up in an LA Mausoleum
Dignity Plus, staged in an Altadena funeral home, addressed themes of mortality and memory while making use of improbable spaces for art.
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The Creative Power of Mischief
“As a collection that’s interested in accessibility and letters, we look at one of the most democratic versions of letters that exists,” said Letterform’s Kate Long Stellar.
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Chinese Dissidents Keep the Blank Paper Revolution Alive Through Art
A series of traveling art shows commemorates the anniversary of the protests against China’s authoritarian regime.
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The Unending Evolution of Nativity Scenes
From 3rd-century depictions to a Star Trek nativity, the art form never ceases to evolve.
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Required Reading
This week, a virtual tour of the Vermeer retrospective, an AI-written novel wins a prize, filling your fish tank with local water, a tribute to poet Refaat Alareer, and more.
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Coco Fusco’s Fight to Rebalance Power
Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.
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Charles LeDray’s Search for Lost Time
The toy-like scale of LeDray’s art gives everything a glow of childhood play and fantasy while pushing it far away.
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Leon Kossoff’s Battles
Art can be, and often is, a species of combat, a fight to the death.
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Artists to Shop for Last-Minute Holiday Gifts
From quirky ceramics and pet portraits to prints and tufted rugs, peruse our list of presents for this season and beyond.
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The Familiar and Familial in MiKyoung Lee’s Art
Made from everyday materials, Lee’s sculptures feel approachable and familiar, reminiscent of home and imperfect human bodies.
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New Show of Islamic Art Explores the Pleasure of Eating Together
Dining With the Sultan at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examines food and culinary customs in 250 works from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and beyond.