Art
Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible
The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.
Los Angeles
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.
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Corita Art Center, Dedicated to the “Pop-Art Nun,” Gets New Home in LA
The artist, educator, and activist fused social justice and spirituality in her bold, vibrant works.
Art
Art as the Mother of Invention
No Prior Art at the Los Angeles Public Library shows off inventions and patents from unlikely creators and allows audiences to become inventors.
Art
Simone Leigh’s Monuments to the Black Femme
Leigh’s survey split between two Los Angeles venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world.
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Getty Apologizes After Exhibition Kick-off Event Injures Spectators
The event to kick off the museum’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative struck guests with falling debris.
Art
Ed Ruscha Reminds Us to Take Nothing at Face Value
A survey at LACMA takes us through six decades of the artist’s innovations in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials.
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Art and Science Intermix in Dozens of Exhibitions Across LA This Fall
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical.
Art
Mickalene Thomas Is Fashioning Black Female Beauty
Thomas’s shimmering collages are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality.
Guide
10 Art Shows to Visit in Los Angeles This September
Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more.
Art
An Anti-Institution Artist Gets an Institutional Show
The first exhibition to consider late artist David Medalla’s work in context of his gay identity explores his playful, poignant, erotic, and collaborative oeuvre.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall
The city’s arts scene is in full swing again, with Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, queer science fiction, light in Medieval Europe, Christina Ramberg’s fragmented figuration, and more.