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Seeing Detroit Through Fresh Eyes Taylor Renee Aldridge Returns to her Hometown to Head Modern Ancient Brown Foundation

Seeing Detroit Through Fresh Eyes
Taylor Renee Aldridge Returns to her Hometown to Head Modern Ancient Brown Foundation

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Detroit for the first time in my life. What a magnificently diverse city bustling with bars and restaurants on every corner in the downtown area, with one of the top encyclopedic art museums in the nation where the socialist...

ABOLITION IN ACTION Crenshaw Dairy Mart Cares About People

ABOLITION IN ACTION
Crenshaw Dairy Mart Cares About People

The artist-of-color-led arts organization and collective in Inglewood, Crenshaw Dairy Mart (CDM), is continuing a legacy of Black-led art spaces in South Los Angeles. Co-founded by multi-hyphenate artists Patrisse Cullors, alexandre ali reza dorriz and noé olivas, it...

HEAVY WATER Rethinking the LA River for Future Generations

HEAVY WATER
Rethinking the LA River for Future Generations

The Los Angeles River is a permanent topic of fascination for artists in this city. In order to establish the city, bureaucrats and businessmen fought to colonize this humble waterway. They tore it away from Indigenous people, encased it in concrete, then rerouted it...

NATURE’S WAY Lucia Monge Collaborates with Her Environment

NATURE’S WAY
Lucia Monge Collaborates with Her Environment

As a kid, Lucia Monge often gazed at birds through her grandfather’s binoculars, taking in the wonders of nature at an early age. Sometimes the birds looked so extraordinary and colorful that she pondered: Could they be real? Or were they something from a fairy tale?...

THE STARS ARE ALIGNED Lita Albuquerque on Observational Astronomy

THE STARS ARE ALIGNED
Lita Albuquerque on Observational Astronomy

A matriarch of the Land Art movement that is closely associated with the American Southwest, Lita Albuquerque has engaged with the surface of Earth from the South Pole to Saudi Arabia, Peru to Paris. But she has always given special attention to the music of the...

SENSE OF WONDER Innovation in the Islamic World

SENSE OF WONDER
Innovation in the Islamic World

Centuries before Leonardo da Vinci lived and worked in Italy, a Persian astronomer, physician, geographer and writer was conducting research into the nature of the cosmos and man’s place in it. Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) wrote and illustrated The Wonders of...

DEATH OF A STAR Directed by Jasmine Johnson New Theater Hollywood

DEATH OF A STAR
Directed by Jasmine Johnson New Theater Hollywood

The tedium of a particular self-consciousness ascribed to Generation Z was on full display in The Death of a Star, a performance and self-proclaimed “reality show,” directed by Jasmine Johnson, which had a sold-out four-day run at New Theater Hollywood (NTH) this...

NO REALER THAN OTHER THINGS Focusing on the Positive at This Year's Whitney Biennial

NO REALER THAN OTHER THINGS
Focusing on the Positive at This Year's Whitney Biennial

The 2024 Whitney Biennial—“Even Better Than the Real Thing”—features artworks, films and performances by 71 artists and collectives. Within the show’s title is an obvious allusion to AI, but the Whitney suggests that it also raises the possibility of other ideas of...

(BITTER) SWEET VIRGINIA Navigating Monuments in the Cradle of the Confederacy

(BITTER) SWEET VIRGINIA
Navigating Monuments in the Cradle of the Confederacy

In March, an invitation to view ceramic work by New York–based artist Patrice Renee Washington brought me to Richmond, Virginia, for the very first time. A midsize Southern city often referred to being as far north as one can get until one is in the North, Richmond’s...

LESSONS TO BE UNLEARNED The 60th Venice Biennale is Less Art World and More Real World

LESSONS TO BE UNLEARNED
The 60th Venice Biennale is Less Art World and More Real World

This year’s 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil, takes an in-depth look at the work of more than 300 artists and collectives who have experienced exile and colonialism. Pedrosa’s thoughtful...

CALIFORNIA GOLD Hilbert Museum Expands its Space and Collection

CALIFORNIA GOLD
Hilbert Museum Expands its Space and Collection

Millard Sheets’ glass mural Pleasures Along the Beach (1969) adorns the façade of the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University in Orange, CA. Its brightly colored California scene, portraying sunbathers, birds and sailboats, beckons visitors to the newly...

DYSTOPIAN FILTERS Ethel Lilienfeld Considers the Nuances of our Virtual Selves

DYSTOPIAN FILTERS
Ethel Lilienfeld Considers the Nuances of our Virtual Selves

Technology cannot be separated from the world we live in today. Indeed, post-pandemic, we are experiencing even more of our daily lives virtually. This phenomenon lies at the core of French multidisciplinary artist Ethel Lilienfeld’s work. Using video, installation...

SHATTERED Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Find Meaning in Remembrance and Resistance

SHATTERED
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Find Meaning in Remembrance and Resistance

In the 18th century, when the Iranian elite heard rumors of the grand mirrored halls of Europe, they sent merchants to procure as many sheets of brilliant reflective glass as their boats could carry. Still, the mirrors cracked in their elaborate frames somewhere...

AS THE WORLD TURNS Deborah Stratman Gazes Into the Abyss of Time

AS THE WORLD TURNS
Deborah Stratman Gazes Into the Abyss of Time

“I’m not sure satisfaction is a thing I feel while making art. I get satisfied from stuff like getting my laundry done or digging a trench or putting away my books,” mused director Deborah Stratman in a recent interview with Documentary magazine. Perhaps this...

REALM OF THE SENSES Jónsi’s “VOX” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

REALM OF THE SENSES
Jónsi’s “VOX” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Jónsi, artist and frontman of Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, masterfully crafted a recent show titled “Vox” which challenges the definitions of visual, sonic and olfactory art, merging the mediums to form a multi-sensory exhibition that plays on the viewer’s mind...

LOST IN SPACE The New Restoration of Franco Rossi's "Smog"

LOST IN SPACE
The New Restoration of Franco Rossi's "Smog"

Franco Rossi’s restored Smog plays like a Nouvelle Vague travelogue, with protagonists seemingly lost in an urban landscape that amplifies their inner malaise. That backdrop is Los Angeles and the long-lost 1962 film (now finally available in a pristine 4K restoration...

FIELD REPORT Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

FIELD REPORT
Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

Gilbert & George, the quintessentially British pioneering queer artist-duo have staked a clear position within the milieu in which they operate. They have scant tolerance for art-world conventions, yet it is precisely that peevishness and their enduring, long-term...

STAYING INSIDE THE LINES Painting AI's Possible Future

STAYING INSIDE THE LINES
Painting AI's Possible Future

Many consider the AARON project the earliest use of AI in artwork. If AI is the most recent and advanced example of humans using automated processes to make art, then its history goes back much further. So why all the fuss now? Is AI so different than John Cage...

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