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Hong Kong Painter Wesley Tongson and the Lineage of Chinese Landscape Art
At BAMPFA, Tongson’s paintings hang alongside works from the museum’s collection of traditional Chinese ink paintings.
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The Photos Left Behind From the Chinese Exclusion Era
At the California Historical Society, curator Erin Garcia contrasts how Chinese people were portrayed in the press with the dignified studio portraits taken in Chinatown.
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Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions
By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.
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Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.
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The Brilliant Blooms of EJ Hill’s Painted Flowers
“I was sad and tired, so I decided to buy myself flowers,” Hill shares.
Guide
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for March 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Barbara Kruger, April Bey, and more.
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For Artists Living by the Pacific, Climate Change Is Always on Their Minds
A former restaurant and ballroom on the edge of the Pacific is filled with art responding to the climate crisis.
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500 Years of Drawing the Human Body
A show opening next week at the Getty Research Center plumbs the visual power of anatomical aesthetics.
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Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer
Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees.
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Yolanda López, Whose Art Was a Call to Look at Chicana Women
In 1978, Yolanda López debuted a body of work whose imagery would reshape the visual language of Chicanx feminism.
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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life
Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.
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Cash-strapped San Francisco Art Institute Merges With Local University
After years of teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the institution will become part of the University of San Francisco.