To walk through the current Lauren Halsey exhibit at David Kordansky Gallery is to consider much about black life, specifically South L.A. black life, in an out...
A new exhibition surveys three giant decades in this iconic artist’s career The art of Shepard Fairey is metaphorical, characterized with torn bits, layers, ...
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 B...
Lauren Halsey is kind of on fire right now. Brilliant, radiant, home-based fire. The smoke, akin to that found in her native South Central during its historic a...
There are many things you could call Henry Taylor — streetwise truth-teller, portrait realist, found objects sculptor, pocket sketcher, Caliblackifornian — but ...
Artist Zhao Zhao maps fissures in the fabric of consciousness and society in a new show at Roberts Projects Los Angeles True to the gospel of minimalism, the...
If it’s possible to find a lyric in hip-hop music that captures the essence of the photography show "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop" at the Annenberg...
The clap of a hand, the clench of a fist. The blare of a horn, the power of a vote. The stroke of a brush. These all stir the soul at the Broad’s presentation of Soul of A Nation. While there’s much to soak in and experience with the show, Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, it is this pulse, this vibrant, jazzy, funky, socially conscious pulse that you see and feel throughout the show....
The artist Charles White would have been 100 years old on April 2. His art work lives on of course, but the work wearing his other hats — as teacher, activist, storyteller, and influencer — ensures that his legacy will be canonical for the next 100. Currently, three exhibits in Los Angeles show us how his work and influence manifested — with exactitude, negritude and attitude....