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VoicesColumn: The new LACMA is sleek, splotchy, powerful, jarring, monotonous, appealing and absurd
Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast expanses of concrete deliver some lovely moments as well as some groans.
Review‘Queer Lens’ is the provocative photography show only the Getty would be brave enough to stage
“Queer Lens: A History of Photography” showcases Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and other big names, but the important exhibition is so much more, looking at expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries.
Noah Davis was a painter’s painter, a deeply thoughtful Black voice heard by other artists until he died at 32. A new L.A. show reveals just how good he was.
ReviewGuadalupe Rosales crafts an analog Wayback Machine for a vibrant show at Palm Springs Art Museum
Los Angeles artist Guadalupe Rosales reconfigures a dazzling archive of her hometown in the 1990s. It’s a show that should catapult her to prominence.
A foundation announced the groundbreaking for the Joshua Tree Art Museum, but public records reveal a more complicated picture.
As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine’s early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.
A revelatory show at the Huntington puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light.
ReviewBruce Nauman’s steel-plate sculpture captured the upheaval of 1968. It’s time for another look
Bruce Nauman’s celebrated Conceptual art ripened during the decade he worked in Pasadena. A fine gallery show assembles two dozen examples with political and social dimensions that speak to present day.
Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in L.A.!) music festivals, “Life of Pi” and “Hamlet” highlight our staff’s spring preview picks.
Painter Joe Goode was instrumental in establishing the 1960s L.A. art scene — and challenged conventions along the way.
