Though Holt’s photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage.
Renée Reizman
Renée Reizman lives in Los Angeles, where she is a research-based interdisciplinary artist and writer who examines cultural aesthetics and their relationship between urbanization, law, and technology. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Awl, and Real Life Magazine. Learn more about her dog on Twitter and Instagram.
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An Artist’s Quest to Decolonize Southern California’s Water Supply
With The Metabolic Studio, artist Lauren Bon views her work as an act of reparation, an attempt to reverse the colonization of Southern California.
Queer Arts Space Cancels Documenta Programming After Harassment Incidents
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Hanne Darboven’s Attempt to Unbind Narrative From Time
Just as LeWitt used minimalism to distill geometric forms, Darboven used it to expose the raw structure of time.
As Hate Crimes Soar, Dozens Rally for Black, Asian, and Trans Solidarity in LA
Through jubilant performances and speeches, the city’s first-ever Blasian March connected the large but disparate communities.
A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers
Sprawling across the Joshua Tree region, nine site-specific works consider the ways in which people have relocated to the desert, destroying what came before them, and cultivating new life.
Phil Peters Bottles the Soundscape of the Global Supply Chain
The Port of Long Beach Recordings is a soundtrack to the globe’s hunger for commodities, the ever-expanding growth of imported products, and the enormous system of infrastructure still insufficient to process it all.
New Folk Art Museum Celebrates the Rise of Craft During the Pandemic
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Pippa Garner’s Household Inventions Reimagine the World
Garner appeared on the talk show circuit in the early 1980s as an eccentric pop culture figure who was never fully understood.
Eileen Gray’s Masterpiece in the French Riviera, No Longer Overshadowed by Le Corbusier
While staying as a house guest, a naked Le Corbusier defiled Gray’s minimalist, color-blocked walls that were only restored in 2015.