The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.
Los Angeles
A Haitian Artist Fights Gang Life With Art
Lesly Pierre Paul’s New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs.
Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Must Asian Americans Always Be Seen in Relation to One Another?
Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles.
As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure
Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis.
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.
Warhol “Mao” Screenprint Mysteriously Missing From California School
The 1972 work was last seen in a secure vault at the Orange Coast College’s Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion before workers reported it unaccounted for.
VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
A Los Angeles Residency Envisions a Radical Future for Experimental Art
Coaxial Arts serves as a crucial resource and hub for LA-based video and multimedia artists, who have rallied around the organization as it weathers financial challenges.
At the Skirball, Finding Common Ground Through Food and Ceramics
An artist and scholar duo hosted community meals with dishes made from water, tree ash, and clay from across the country, now on view at the Skirball Center.
Summer Wheat’s Communal Eden
Rather than embrace individualistic “hustle culture,” the women in her paintings work communally and find time to rest.