News
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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Art Review
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.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
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.
Art Review
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.
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Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces
After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the intricate glazed tiles that survived — small but meaningful remnants of their homes.
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The Japanese American National Museum Is a Site of Remembrance and Belonging
Located in the heart of LA’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations, including aspects that other persecuted and marginalized communities can recognize.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more.
Art Review
Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.
Book Review
The Secret Life of LA’s Small Museums
With a fair dose of whimsy, Also on View draws attention to museums off the beaten track, centering the region’s rich diasporic fabric and cultural niches.
Art Review
“Work From Home” Takes on New Meaning at CalArts’s Postgrad MFA Show
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.