Kerry James Marshall is a black artist who paints black people. The men and women in Marshall’s paintings are not people of a range of colors. They are not pain...
There are exceptions, but for the most part art museums are very white places. White walls are covered in the works of white artists. White nudes are illuminated by white lights. Marble sculptures reveal ivory-white skin. White people look at art made of, for and about the white experience. Kerry......
Maria Aguirre Rosales de Bañuelos looks directly into the camera, the bright desert sun illuminating her strong cheekbones and dark eyes. Her weathered skin is deeply creased, taut and beautiful, and her hair is pulled back tightly, adorned with a bright white bow that resembles a rose. She is dressed......
“Even though our department is full of creative people, it can be a little bit hard to get original ideas out of us,” says Lucy White, a senior in the Van Nuys High School choir. “We are teenagers, so we have some self-esteem things,” she explains. Luckily the L.A. Master......
Edgar Arceneaux is tall, so he has to hunch down when he enters the asymmetrical A-frame log cabin that houses his installation Library of Black Lies, currently on view at Beta Main in downtown Los Angeles. Standing inside the wonky wooden structure, the artist explains how the library’s small entryway,......
In 1977, L.A. gallerists Claire Copley, Morgan Thomas and Connie Lewallen created the Foundation for Arts Resources (FAR). The goal of their organization was simple: to support and promote artists and the creation and presentation of conceptual art outside traditional gallery spaces. FAR is a nomadic, dynamic organization. It has......
If you checked out “Electric Earth,” Doug Aitken’s huge, immersive mid-career survey at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA this weekend, you just might've run into a musical legend. From January 4 through this evening, composer Terry Riley is creating improvisatory performances throughout the museum space, bouncing his musical ideas off......
Inside the REDCAT theater in downtown Los Angeles this summer, a dead woman lay naked on a wooden bench propped upright under bright stage lights. Doctors removed her organs and examined them, one by one, in front of a rapt audience. Suddenly, the woman’s bloodied breast heaved as she awoke,......
Artist David Botello painted his first mural when he was in the third grade. It was a collaborative effort with another third grader, Wayne Healy. Together they covered a chalkboard-sized piece of butcher paper in an elaborate prehistoric landscape, complete with dinosaurs and volcanoes. The occasion was an East Los......
Go to a random gallery in Los Angeles or New York and there is a 70 percent chance the art you’ll interact with is the work of a man. Compelling or mediocre, gay or straight, white or black, the majority of the art we encounter is fueled by testosterone. In......
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