Art
LA’s New Metro Line Opens With 14 Public Artworks
Kenturah Davis, Mickalene Thomas, and Shinique Smith are among the artists who created work for the K Line, which connects historical centers of Black American life and culture in LA.
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Guide
Prepare Yourself for LA's First Keith Haring Museum Show
Art is for Everybody at the Broad Museum will focus on the artist's life and activism.
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Artists Reimagine Nike’s Cortez Running Shoe
At LaPau Gallery, nine West Coast Latinx artists show the power of personal and cultural agency.
Interview
The Happily Haunted Cinema of Guy Maddin
The twilight state between dreaming and waking that permeates a restoration of Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital echoes that of life and death in his films.
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Painting Rejected From California Biennial Over Image of Swastika
Artist Ben Sakoguchi, who was imprisoned with his family in a Japanese internment camp, said his works are "a reminder of our history and of how far we still have to go as a society."
News
Artist Silke Otto-Knapp, Who Made Watercolor "Dance," Dies at Age 52
The artist and beloved professor of painting and drawing at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture had battled ovarian cancer for two years.
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Billy Al Bengston, LA Painter With a Contrarian Streak, Dies at 88
In his hard-edged abstractions, Bengston made the direct center of his paintings the focal point, a cardinal sin according to his art school teachers.
Art
In Times Square and Sunset Strip, "American Gurl" Subverts Femininity
Kilo Kish’s video on digital billboards, presented by Womxn in Windows, is accompanied by a print campaign on trash receptacles in Midtown Manhattan
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Trenton Doyle Hancock's World-Building Power
The works, and worlds, on display in Hancock's exhibition seem saturated with a desire for narrative redemption through self-observation and aspects of his Christian upbringing.
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Orange County Museum of Art Reopens With Free Entry For the Next 10 Years
The museum opens to the public on October 8 with a 24-hour kickoff and a rebooted California Biennial.
Guide
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for October 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including the Maya Codex of Mexico at the Getty, Beatrice Wood, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and more.
Art
The Dazzling Local Arts Scene of Southeast Los Angeles
In the shadow of a planned $150 million cultural center designed by Frank Gehry, a number of grassroots arts organizations are thriving in the predominantly Latino region.