2022
But some point out that the seemingly zeitgeisty shift to LA is nothing new in the art world.
2020
Juneteenth marks the day in which enslaved people in Texas belatedly learned of their freedom 鈥� two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Unfettered spontaneity is corralled by concise structural order in Michael Tedja鈥檚 rambunctious mixed-media drawings.
Los Angeles County may have announced that museums can reopen as early as Friday, but of more than a dozen institutions responding to Times inquiries, not one said it was prepared to begin welcoming visitors so soon.
2019
Most of the art venues in West Adams start their seasons tonight, as does the post-humanist outpost The Nook Gallery 鈥� relatively nearby to the south on N. La Brea Avenue in Inglewood.
The passionate perseverance of gallerist Eva Chimento continues in a wondrous way with the presentation of works by two artists, Pamela Smith Hudson and April Bey, opening in the main gallery and project room, respectively, on September 7.
2018
In 2018, we witnessed all kinds of protests and petitions that called attention to abuses of power, inequity, and privilege in the cultural sector. Ac
Richard Hoblock鈥檚 recent paintings appear as peekaboo scrims offering tantalizing glimpses into abstruse corners of the artist鈥檚 mind.
In the beginning, there was La Cienega. For a while in the 1960s, the West Hollywood gallery district was the destination center for the Los Angeles art world and beyond. Later, in the 1990s, came Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, then Culver City, and more recently the...
2017
From color field paintings inspired by data sets about African American life to paintings that draw from pop culture and Mexican identity, here are ni
A show that switches up day and night. Another that features paintings inspired by a lost paradise. And objects that fuse different currents in Americ
2016
The message on the steel roll-up gate of Mihai Nicodim鈥檚 gallery could not have been clearer: With obscene language, the spray-painted words condemned what they labeled 鈥渨hite art.鈥�
A century ago, if you鈥檇 uttered the word 鈥渁rtist,鈥� chances are it would have been accompanied by the modifier 鈥渟tarving.鈥�
Ah, the pain of reconstruction.