Art
How Artists Used the Discord App to Build Community During COVID-19
As more artists and arts organizations join the platform initially populated by gamers, they have capitalized on Discord’s potential for creation and play.
Features
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Melvino Garretti on Making Art in Los Angeles Since the Days of the Watts Uprising
Melvino Garretti describes himself as “more of an anthropologist than an artist.”
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Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions
There’s a certain irony to the fact that Thompson, an artist who was so in-tune with the patterns of nature and the universe, posed such a fundamental challenge to mainstream art histories.
Film
Filmmakers Team Up With SF Public Defenders to Broadcast Stories of Injustice
Defender, which launched online this week, tells the stories that get buried in the news.
Art
How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
Art
Anna Torma’s Hand-Sewn Dreams
Inspired by children’s drawings, Hungarian folklore, and medieval legends, Torma’s playful, hand-sewn worlds are engrossing.
Books
“We Are Advocating for Us”: A New Book Centers BIPOC Artists and Educators
Jasmin Hernandez, author of We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, says her work is all about collective effort.
Art
A World-Famous Ancient Collection, on Display for the First Time, Awaits Visitors in Rome
The impressive exhibition undertaken by the Capitoline Museums and the Torlonia Foundation was 40 years in the making, and placed close to 100 marble sculptures from the storied Torlonia collection on view.
Art
Escape Into Soundwaves From the Comfort of Your Home
The World According to Sound’s listening series has breathed new life into stagnant stay-at-home days and given me a meditative tool for coping with ever creeping anxiety.
Art
With a Room of Her Own, Emily Mason’s Ethereal Abstractions Bloomed
Mason’s expansive Chelsea studio became her tuning fork — the barometer she used to check that colors and shapes were humming at the right frequency.
Art
“The World I Wish People Knew”: Photographer Cara Romero on Redefining Contemporary Native art
This year, Romero will be installing photographs of California’s Indigenous peoples on billboards and public places throughout Los Angeles.
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Ruth Carter’s Radical, Afrofuturist Fashion
From Do the Right Thing to Selma to Black Panther, Carter’s costume designs have long been defined by their ability to elevate characters too often marginalized.