Art
Maura Brewer Pulls Back the Curtain on Art Investors
The Los Angeles artist examines the contemporary phenomenon of art as asset class by focusing on the financial dealings of a billionaire investor and MoMA trustee.
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Art
What Happens When Creation Is Destruction?
The art of Cai Guo-Qiang and Gustav Metzger illuminates a problem in art-making today: What happens when creative pursuits, in fact, destroy?
Art
The Relentless Optimism of Beatriz da Costa
Throughout her career, she collaborated with scientists, doctors, and animals, blurring the boundaries between art projects and scientific experiments.
Art
How Did We Get to a World of Hyper-Surveillance?
At the Wende Museum, contemporary art is cleverly interspersed among archival surveillance artifacts.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November
Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.
News
LA Artists Push Back Against Call to “Beautify” RV Encampment Sites
Dozens signed an open letter criticizing the project for failing to involve unhoused people and for seeking to “cover up … sites of trauma and loss.”
Art
From the Ruins of the Past, Indigenous Artists Fashion New Futures
Future Imaginaries gathers work by a range of Native artists who are wielding fashion, technology, and sci-fi to carry ancestral knowledge forward.
Art
A Psychedelic Trip Into the Human Body
Meeson Pae’s work creates safe space to contend with the phenomenon of our biological inner-workings and the opulent worlds they create.
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Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings – A Day of New Music
The LA Phil’s new-music marathon includes 12 hours of live performances and art installations in every corner of Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Art
A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.
Performance
Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
Art
The Force of Community Bends Space in Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portraits
The artist depicts Los Angeles dancers as they dance, dress, and rest.