Art Review
At 60, a Legendary LA Print Workshop Still Urges Us to Pay Attention
From Robert Rauschenberg and Josef Albers to Vija Celmins and Julie Mehretu, artists have tinkered outside their comfort zones at Gemini G.E.L.
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Interview
Paul Pfeiffer on the Spectacle of Politics
“Perhaps the stadium is actually the replacement for the UN as a symbolic gathering point to conduct world politics,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Announcement
Skirball Cultural Center presents “The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles”
The exhibition shares two new sections of the public art mural on view for the first time, featuring moments from an era of collective action that still resonates today.
Book Review
The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA
A team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world.
News
LACMA's Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
The artist’s mobile outside the LA museum is the inspiration for a new drink à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more.
Feature
Queer Artists Say Tom of Finland Foundation Has Lost Its Way
Former artist residents of the LA nonprofit fear leadership has strayed from the radical, queer energy that Tom and his house embody.
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Announcement
“Doyle Lane: Master of Clay” Now on View at The Huntington
Discover the first major museum retrospective devoted to the influential Los Angeles ceramic artist.
Art Review
Gather 'Round, Willie Birch Is Speaking
Across five decades of work, he always asked: What's my neighborhood, and what does it need?
Feature
Preserving Ernie Barnes’s Legacy in Paint Tubes
The late artist and athlete who rendered joyous scenes of Black life, dance, and motion is the subject of renewed institutional attention as his daughter, Erin Barnes, works to conserve his studio practice.
Art Review
LA’s Lucas Museum Displays “Narrative Art” for the Few, Not the People
Friction, dissonance, and multiplicity are overall avoided in favor of superficial unity and a flattening of difference at George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's new institution.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall
Carmen Lomas Garza’s tender scenes of Chicanx community, Huguette Caland’s life in lines, Indigenous artists on fire and stewardship, photography of trans mutual aid, and more.