Comics
How a Film Buff Warmed Up to Manny Farber’s Paintings
The way Farber thought about movies shaped the way I watched movies, which meant he shaped my life, because all I cared about was watching movies.
Los Angeles
Art
Finding Connections Between a 1960s Artist Commune and an Ancient Mayan Community
Beatriz Cortez has created a space that feels both freshly futuristic and profoundly ancient.
Art
A Cat Woman Guides an Unusual, Interactive Tour of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
As someone deeply skeptical of technologically aided “interactive” art, I found this to be a thoroughly novel and captivating experience.
Art
Experience the Japanese Tradition of Silent Films Narrated Live
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is giving people in Los Angeles a rare chance to see this tradition in person.
Art
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Comes to Southern California Museums This March
The program kicks off this Sunday at the ICA LA, with an edit-a-thon focused on women and comedy.
Art
An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of Her Sisters
Rema Ghuloum's life-affirming response to this loss has been to make paintings whose direct and unapologetic pursuit of beauty feels rare.
Art
Challenging the Trope of the “Woman in the Window”
A project places video art by six women of color in the windows of galleries and arts organizations in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
Comics
When Your Bedroom Starts to Look Like an Art Gallery
In Los Angeles's Koreatown, a bedroom might be mistaken for an art gallery.
Art
Video Artists Subvert and Pay Homage to the Hollywood Musical Genre
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions kicks off a series of screenings of video art and experimental cinema that will travel around the city.
Art
What to Watch Instead of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Films
Here are 10 movies to stream that complement or are vastly preferable to this year's Oscar darlings.
Art
Extraordinary California Women Artists Working from 1860 to 1960
An exhibition brings together work by artists whose contributions to art movements and regional histories might have been obscured, forgotten, or overshadowed by those of their male colleagues.
Art
A New Documentary Looks Back on the Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? looks back on an influential book's legacy and features new feminist voices to see how things have changed and what has frustratingly remained the same.