Art
A Movie Tells LA’s 237-Year-Old History
A new film explores the transformation and disruption of LA through interviews with writers, artists, and historians.
Los Angeles
Art
Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
Art
A 1920s Polish Play Is Reimagined for the California Desert
A new play at CalArts sets Witkacy's The Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in the unending landscape of Death Valley.
News
As the Getty Digitizes the Archives of the Woman’s Building, Artists Remember Its History
Suzanne Lacy and others remember the Woman's Building, whose history is being preserved by the Getty Research Institute thanks to a recent grant.
Art
LA’s Venerated New Beverly Cinema Returns with Classic Programming
This month the theater officially announced it would resume operation in December, and its schedule ably shows off its programming sensibility.
Art
Kellie Jones on the Rise of Performance Art in the 1970s
Jones discusses the role that performance played in the work of Latin American and African American artists.
Art
B. Wurtz Makes Absurd, Profound Art from Overlooked Stuff
For Wurtz, self-knowledge is not found on a psychoanalyst’s couch or a remote mountaintop, but in the things with which we surround ourselves.
History
Tracing the Lives of 10 Jewish Children Who Escaped Nazi-occupied Territories
My family's lore holds that my great-uncle was one of the 10,000 children who were sent to Britain to be fostered wherever they could.
Art
Remembering Las Mariposas, the Sisters Who Resisted a Violent Dictatorship
The sisters formed a political group, the Movement of the Fourteenth of June, in opposition to the violent dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. They were assassinated in 1960.
Comics
A Self-Proclaimed “Nonsense Parade” Marches On
At the Doo Dah Parade, you can walk as whatever you want — no cause necessary — as long as you’re okay with tortillas being slung at you from all directions.
Art
A Reconsideration of Power Structures in the Art Community
Anuradha Vikram, head curator at 18th Street Arts Center, talks about how the "lack of professional standards can undermine important cultural and social justice work."
Art
An Artist’s Tribute to First African American Astronaut Launches into Space
Tavares Strachan is sending Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.'s "soul" into space — fulfilling the astronaut's dream that was cut off by his death in a trading accident in 1967.