Art
Objects that Manifest the Contradictions of American History
Sam Durant’s exhibition Build Therefore Your Own World at Blum & Poe examines and creates points of connection between the transcendentalists and African Americans.
Los Angeles
Art
The Artificial Caverns that House America's Underground Business Parks
Hollowed Earth: The World of Underground Business Parks at the Center for Land Use Interpretation descends into the strange world of America's commercial caverns.
Art
In Paintings and Ceramics, Theaster Gates Salvages Charged Materials
In his new show at Regen Projects, Gates showcases paintings based on data visualizations by W.E.B. Du Bois and ceramic sculptures that reinterpret iconic forms.
Art
LA Artists Raised $100K for the ACLU — Now What?
A benefit sale over post–Inauguration Day weekend featured T-shirts, buttons, and works by more than 200 artists.
Art
The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker
UCLA's Fowler Museum has organized the first solo museum show in the US for Belkis Ayón, a black Cuban artist who was a master of collography.
Art
500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.
Art
Colorful Canvases that Transform Worn-Out Clichés
LOS ANGELES — Glenn Goldberg seizes worn-out clichés that would seem unable to support weight and uses them to unexpectedly launch himself into painting.
News
Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
Art
Catherine Opie's Intimate Photographs of S&M
LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Art
The Prolific Output of a Chronicler of Chicano Lives and Struggles
LOS ANGELES — As I arrived recently at the Fowler Museum, I made a beeline toward the José Montoya exhibition, rushing past a beautifully situated cloister and a series of photographs recording the efforts of the Legalize LA labor activist campaign.
Art
Bringing Murals to the Streets of One of LA’s Poorest Neighborhoods
LOS ANGELES — At the intersection of 48th Street and Wall Street in South Central Los Angeles, a homeless man pushes a cart filled with blankets and clothes.
Film
A Filmmaker Probes the Magic and Madness of Female Adolescence
LOS ANGELES — As a woman who was once a teenage girl, I have a certain fondness for any filmic or visual art that harkens back to that time of intense, unbridled feelings, awkward physical changes, and sexual desires running wild ’n free.