Art
Rediscovering Leslie Kerr's Pop Abstraction
Kerr was an abstract artist with a vulgar sense of humor.
Los Angeles
News
Check Out the Innovative Winners of LACMA’s Art + Technology Grant
From mythic navigation to generating new built and ecological environments, this year’s cohort seems prepared to take on the future.
Art
Cold War Architecture in the Heart of Idyllic Southern California
This Saturday, Stuart W. Leslie will speak about “The Architecture of the Apocalypse.”
Art
“Emotion and Light Put Together”: An LA Photographer Captures Protests and Peace
“I needed to see Black people just being gentle and loving each other in front of me. Instead of another video of somebody being murdered,” says Alexis Hunley.
Art
A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence, Created by 600 Women Around the World
The moving results will soon be on view in a virtual gallery by California’s Social and Public Art Resource Center.
Art
Turning to Art for Spiritual Sustenance
“A lot of people have been turning to art, needing space to process,” says the artist Edgar Fabián Frías, who, along with Hayley Barker, Julie Weitz, and Patrisse Cullors, has been discussing their art as spiritual practice.
Art
In America’s “First Suburban Chinatown,” Asian Americans Have Negotiated Cultural Representation
In the San Gabriel Valley, home to the largest concentration of Asian Americans, cultural landmarks tell a story of the formation of a collective cultural identity.
Art
‘‘We Paid For This Town”: The Legacy of Chicanx Punk in LA
In the 1970s and ’80s, the Bags, Vaginal Davis, Nervous Gender, and Los Illegals used music and performance to express their dissent of racism and gender violence, imagining punk as a possible utopia.
Interview
Meet LA’s Art Community: Chon Noriega Is Working on a Social Justice Sci-Fi Film Series and So Much More
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
News
Getty Responds to Open Letter Accusing Museum of Racial Bias and Insensitivity
On July 21, the Getty Board of Trustees posted a response to a July 15 open letter written by hundreds of current and former Getty employees as well as museum visitors. In its response, the institution touts some of the steps it has taken towards diversity, while also acknowledging "that Getty has m
News
In South Los Angeles, Art Is a Force for Community Empowerment
The Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Residency Art Gallery, and new community center Summaeverythang are part of a lineage dating back at least 50 years to the Black Arts Movement.
Art
An Exhibition Made for and by the Afro-Latinx Angeleno Community
afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city, a project two years in the making, gathers family photos, instruments, dolls, and more from local Afro-Latinx Angeleno families and individuals.