News
LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
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Features
Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
The Pussy Riot co-founder undergoes a 10-day durational performance in a recreation of a cell in Police State.
News
Defining Photos From LA’s Historic Anti-ICE Protests
After sending the National Guard to quell demonstrations, the president’s next move could be dispatching Marines to the country’s second-largest city.
Art Review
Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season.
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East West Players Brings Asian-American Stories Into the Limelight
The Los Angeles theater, now in its 60th year, works to cultivate, invite, and produce authentic stories told from within the AAPI communities.
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LA’s $1B Lucas Museum Lays Off 22 Employees
The institution co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson cut both full- and part-time workers ahead of its 2026 opening.
Features
Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair
The diverse array of printed matter on view points to the role of small publishers in archiving and restoring lesser-told histories, preventing them from being forgotten.
Art Review
David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
Art Review
The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
Art Review
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.