Art
The Power of Community at UCLA's Graduate Open Studios
UCLA's MFA students come across as decidedly extroverted in their interests, looking out into their communities for inspiration, rather than solely within.
Reviews
Art
Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Is a Victim of Its Hype
It's Pablo-matic is not a great exhibition, but it’s also not the catastrophe that some people have described.
Art
On Being Black in Mexico
How might the average Mexican visitor might perceive Frida Orupabo’s Fear of Fear, in a country where Afro-Mexicans make up roughly 2% of the population?
Art
A Walk in Frédérique Lucien’s Winter Garden
A new exhibition combines the artist’s uncanny bodily sculptures with her two-dimensional botanical works.
Art
The Techno Transcendence of Party/After-Party
Carl Craig’s immersive installation is a testimony to our need to dance, mourn, and rejoice together.
Film
Finally, a Movie That Understands the Lives of Artists
Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt, uniquely tells a story of an artist working far from any monetary goals or God complex.
Art
What Would a World Without Genocide Look Like?
Reparations of the Heart prompts the question: Where would diaspora Armenians and other SWANA communities be if the Armenian Genocide had never happened?
Art
Searching for Warhol’s “Cum”
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
Art
Dreaming in the Afternoon Light
Through her attention to detail and light, Hannah Lee transforms a banal view into something uncanny.
Art
Let Legibility in Art Be Damned
The slippage between legibility and illegibility in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s work pushes against the assumption that a painting must acknowledge its surface.
Art
Wangechi Mutu’s Corporeal Archaeology
In Mutu's artistic universe, the human body, particularly the female or femme form, is a container for many possibilities.
Art
Can Artists Channel the Force of Water?
Going with the Flow explores the role of water in the Southwest amid the 23-year drought, but neglects the ongoing tug of war due to water mandates and drought.