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Statue of Native Activist Mysteriously Lost (and Found) in Oakland
Artist Rigo 23’s sculpture of Leonard Peltier was eventually found with its arm missing and racist graffiti scrawled on a U-Haul truck in which it was being transported.
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A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change
Dean Byington’s Cassandra warning call in his art reveals the world we know as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse.
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How Nancy Holt Anticipated the Influencer Age
Though Holt's photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage.
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The New LA Medieval Torture Museum No One Asked For
The museum is the second most elaborate Los Angeles institution devoted to human suffering, after the Hollywood film industry.
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For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot
There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead's paintings of animals engaged in human situations.
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Murals in LA Lift the Voices of Iranian Protesters
Murals by Iranian-American artists across the city are inescapable reminders of the regime’s ongoing brutality.
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Commemorating the 2020 Artsakh War in LA's Armenian Community
“Shelter,” a new installation by She Loves Collective, features 3,906 ribbons with the names of Armenian soldiers who lost their lives.
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The Broad Presents William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
This immersive, multi-sensory exhibition in LA surveys 35 years of Kentridge’s practice through drawings, film, sculpture, installation, and more.
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Bull.Miletic: Proxistant Vision Takes Over the Museum of Craft and Design
The Oslo-based artist duo Bull.Miletic returns to San Francisco to explore the influence of new aerial imaging technologies.
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Two Artist Friends Look to Their Roots for the Future
Both Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink refuse to adhere to traditional artistic hierarchies, an attitude they have shared throughout their 30-year friendship.
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Call for Applications: Charles Gaines MFA Fellowship at CalArts
The program, along with recently announced visiting critics, will provide long term funding, promote access, and safeguard experimentation for future students of color.
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Art in the Attention Economy
If there is an object you have ever desired in your life, rest assured that someone in the advertising industry made money convincing you of exactly that.