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Los Angeles Pays Homage to the Cool Trance of Alice Coltrane
An exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual art.
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John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81
For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts.
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The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
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Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.
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Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City
Created in 1979 by the East Los Streetscapers, the painting on the wall of a local DMV was a rare example of Latine representation in images of space and STEM.
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California’s New Slang
From airbrushed lettering of lowriders to silkscreen and sign-painting, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language.
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LA’s Newest Museum Pays Homage to an Iconic Bar
Musée du Al is the creation of Marc Kreisel, founder of Al’s Bar, the legendary watering hole and hub for artists in pre-gentrification downtown.
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The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show
Parts I and II of the exhibition demonstrate a vibrant spectrum of aesthetic inquiry — which, like LA’s art scene, resists easy categorization.
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Cindy Ji Hye Kim Retunes Us to the Land’s Rhythms
In paintings and sculptures portraying laboring bodies, the artist demonstrates that our collective unconsciousness has always been tied to natural cycles.
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An Exhibition Makes Absence Present
Works by Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman, and P. Staff ask us to acknowledge loss — but also to see it as a way into altering the shape of our world.
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François Pain’s Art as Salvation
The artist’s avant-garde video works draw from his time working at an experimental psychiatric hospital in the 1960s–70s.
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Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer
His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at foundational interactions between viewers, art objects, and art institutions.