News
Getty Museum Returns Ancient Roman Bronze to Turkey
The institution acquired the bust from a Swiss art dealer who has been linked with the looted antiquities trade at other US museums.
Los Angeles
Art
UCLA’s MFAs Take On Power Structures
While some of the works lack the finesse of more seasoned veterans, these artists have cultivated firm, incisive critiques of the powers that be.
News
Outrage After Actor Chris Pratt Destroys Iconic Mid-Century Home in LA
Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion.”
Opinion
Scratching Beneath the Surface of Identity-Based Group Shows
While Asian-American Art may be "plagued by generational amnesia," as Sharon Mizota wrote for Hyperallergic, the artists and curators of Scratching at the Moon are definitely not.
News
Taylor Swift "Pop-Up Library" Has Fans Divided Online
An LA installation ahead of Swift's new album release features academia props including manuscripts, typewriters, and shelves lined with books.
Art
Nora Turato Makes Collective Angst Creative
The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.
Art
A Haitian Artist Fights Gang Life With Art
Lesly Pierre Paul's New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs.
Art
Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
Art
How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Art
Must Asian Americans Always Be Seen in Relation to One Another?
Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles.
Art
As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure
Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.