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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anna Odell Was Impregnated in a Psychiatric Ward, Then Made an Unlikely Film About It
The film is in no way sensational or traumatic. What is most shocking, rather, is how calm and cool it is.