Opinion
A meeting of the Artists' Political Action Network failed to take into account its location in a neighborhood that's been mired in gentrification controversy for quite some time.
Art
Sam Durant’s exhibition Build Therefore Your Own World at Blum & Poe examines and creates points of connection between the transcendentalists and African Americans.
Art
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 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
A benefit sale over post–Inauguration Day weekend featured T-shirts, buttons, and works by more than 200 artists.
Art
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
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.
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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
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.
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LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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.
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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.