Art
Slavs and Tatars Look to the Heavens for Knowledge
Knowledge and literacy in their many forms are at the heart of a small but rich show by the art collective.
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News
LA’s Black Image Center at Risk of Closure
The Culver City nonprofit working to remove cost and accessibility barriers for Black photographers is crowdfunding to keep its doors open.
Art
Hank Willis Thomas Dives Into the Rivers of History
Using retroreflective material, the artist’s latest works look at the way that rivers both carry and conceal as a means of examining history.
Art
Lari Pittman Paints Cities of the Future
It is his maximalist messiness — his embrace of difference, however awkward or confounding — that connects Pittman’s paintings to the beauty of Los Angeles.
Art
LA's Art Book Fair Is Back With a Bang
This year’s edition, the first in the city since 2019, suggests a publishing landscape as quirky and diffuse as Los Angeles itself.
Art
Artists Get Inside the “Glitch”
The glitch, perhaps, is that we thought technology, the earth, and the spirit were all separate things when really they all glide together.
Art
The Dark and Moody Humor of Judith Bernstein’s Paintings
Bernstein’s latest works are beset with a deathlike quality rarely seen in her earlier pieces, even ones that directly addressed death in war or genocide.
Art
Trương Cong Tung Sees History in a Gourd
Trương Cong Tung’s art is a meditation on the complex interdependent variables that constitute a diasporic experience, one that offers no easy or concrete answers.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in LA This August
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, Suchitra Mattai’s textiles, an exhibition of artworks found in storage, and much more.
Art
Breaking With Monuments as Institutional Selfies
Thomas J Price’s bronze statues of Black individuals look like people we might know or see out in public, rather than generals and political leaders.
Art
Los Angeles Artists Find Community in Mysticism
The city’s complex history of capital and violence is what makes the intersection of art and magic so potent, opening doors for healing and reparations.
Art
A Painter's Cheeky Spin on Happily Ever After
Artist Jose Bonell traverses and reinterprets the world of folk and fairy tales, challenging the myth of the one and only “soulmate” who comes to the rescue.