News
LACMA Workers Move to Unionize
Staffers say they want “fairer compensation, expanded benefits, and increased transparency” as the cost of living rises in Los Angeles.
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Modigliani's Jean Cocteau Portrait Heads to Brooklyn Museum in Major Gift
Along with MoMA and LACMA, the New York museum will receive dozens of works from the Pearlman Collection.
Features
Revealing the Secrets Within a Hulking Tony Smith Sculpture
Freshly installed at the new LACMA building ahead of the museum’s spring reopening, the massive artwork resembling an abstract spider offers a link to the past.
News
Art Orgs Launch $12M Fund for LA Artists Affected by Fires
Donors include the Helen Frankenthaler and Ford foundations, the Getty and LACMA, and commercial galleries.
Art
Simone Leigh’s Monuments to the Black Femme
Leigh’s survey split between two Los Angeles venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world.
Art
Ed Ruscha Reminds Us to Take Nothing at Face Value
A survey at LACMA takes us through six decades of the artist’s innovations in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials.
Art
Otto Dix’s Visions of War
What Dix conveys so deftly is that terror and trauma are felt, not thought, and art about these experiences fails when it tries to make sense of things.
News
With the Help of LA, a Las Vegas Art Museum Forges Ahead
Of the 30 largest US cities, Las Vegas is the only one without a standalone art museum.
Art
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.
Books
In Art Conservation, There Is No Perfect Solution
Conservator Rosa Lowinger reflects on her time working at LACMA in the 1980s in an excerpt from her new memoir, Dwell Time.
Art
SWANA Women Artists Deserve Better
The exhibition Women Defining Women at LACMA suffers from poorly defined parameters and a weak understanding of its own premise.
Art
Computer Art With a Human Touch
An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques.