Art
Barbie Turns 65 at a Museum
From the original doll of 1959 to the Barbies of today, an exhibition tracks the life of an icon that just became a senior citizen.
Reviews
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within
With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become.
Art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.
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.
Art
Alex Strada Says “No” to NIMBYs
The show argues that caring for unhoused and dispossessed people is not a task to be sloughed off to the “city,” but rather a responsibility each of us shoulders.
Art
A Collective Portrait of Black Los Angeles, Told Through Artist Ben Caldwell
This exhibition about the multihyphenate filmmaker is as much about the place he chose to call home and all the people who pepper it with color.
Art
What Does It Mean to “Collaborate” With Another Species?
The majority of the art in Mutual Aid: Art in Collaboration with Nature is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes.
Book Review
An American Artist’s Vignettes of Rural Italian Life
Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.
Art
The Monstrous Empathy of Amaryllis R. Flowers
In her art, Flowers thinks about monster mythology and autonomy as they relate to the all-too-human experience of feeling unwanted and out of place.
Art
Reckoning With the “Science” of Sexuality
Scientia Sexualis attempts a decolonial approach to the subjects of gender, sexuality, and representation in relation to the clinical gaze.
Art
Two Painters’ Not-Quite-Abstract Art
The pairing of Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz, both longtime practitioners of geometric abstraction, is a stroke of genius for their similarities and differences.
Art
The Bold and Innovative Aesthetics of Medieval Artists
Over 40 works dating from the 12th through the 16th century fill this compact, beautifully curated show.