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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This December
Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more.
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Affordable Los Angeles Art to Shop This Holiday Season
These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.
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Doug Aitken’s Poetic Tableau of Southern California
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work.
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Chicano Art Patron Cheech Marin Gets Life-Sized Bronze Statue
Artist Ignacio Gómez’s sculpture depicts Cheech with open arms in a gesture of warm welcome to visitors outside his namesake arts center.
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In Los Angeles, Queer Sci-Fi Is a Universe Unto Itself
A visually enthralling show lays bare the links between science fiction and the occult, realms where being begins from a place of transgression.
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Van Gogh's “Irises” Were Never Supposed to Be Blue
A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works.
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Chicana Artist’s Once-Censored Mural Finds a New Home in LA
Barbara Carrasco’s landmark 80-foot painting portraying the city’s origins and evolution will anchor the Natural History Museum’s new wing.
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Happy Pictures From the Apocalypse
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum is guilty of a concerning lack of urgency.
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The Political Was Personal for Yong Soon Min
An exhibition showcases the late artist’s lifelong commitment to considering the relationship between the unremitting Korean War and her own diasporic identity.
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Two Artists Seek Out the Ancient Wisdom of Trees
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through timelines inscribed in fallen tree fragments.
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Artists Unearth Universes in Caltech’s Archives
The artists in Crossing Over were inspired by a century of monumental discoveries from the scientists who have made Caltech one of the world’s most elite research institutions.
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The Illusive Films of Sergei Parajanov
Each of the director’s films adapts a folktale, short story, or novel, or pays tribute to a historical figure — but never in a straightforward way.