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.
Los Angeles
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.
News
Getty Acquires Raymond Pettibon Archive
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
Art
From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
News
Protest Painting Calls Out Fossil Fuel Industry’s Role in LA Fires
The collaborative artwork made by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers at a rally this week urges lawmakers to hold oil and gas companies accountable.
Art
Inside “Pop-Art Nun” Corita Kent’s New LA Home
The Corita Kent Art Center combines the artist’s foundation, an archive and gallery, and educational and community spaces to continue her extension of art into life.
Art
Su Yu-Xin’s Metonyms for the Earth
Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them.
Art
The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright
Artist Ryan Preciado unearths the story of Manuel Sandoval, a Nicaraguan artisan whose important contributions to 20th-century modernist design have long been buried.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
Kour Pour’s geometric genealogies, Isabel Yellin’s sculptures of grief, Bruce Nauman’s LA years, Gustave Caillebotte’s figuration, and more.
News
Italian Photographer Gusmano Cesaretti’s Chronicles of East LA
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired 238 boxes of the artist's images, negatives, books, and ephemera.
Art
The Slouching Beast of Southern California
Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken’s panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and city streets.