In a nine-part comic series, Ivan Ascher explores the university, the pandemic, and philosophy.
Arts & Culture > Art
Smashing Statues, Building Community
Erin L. Thompson thinks about what it means to record the process of destroying art in Aaron Tugendhaft's "The Idols of ISIS."
Photographing a Bruise: Catherine Opie’s “Rhetorical Landscapes” at the Regen Projects
Jonathan Alexander looks at bruises and swamps Catherine Opie’s “Rhetorical Landscapes.”
Contemporary Female Artists at the First Virtual Frieze Art Fair
Catherine Corman features a few prominent artists in the first ever virtual Frieze Art Fair, which ran May 8 through 15, 2020.
Fontana after the Ruins: A Conversation with Luca Massimo Barbero
Alexandre Saden talks with curator Luca Massimo Barbero about the exhibition "Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space" at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles.
(Quarantined in) a Room of One’s Own
V.M. Braganza talks about curating women writers at a distance and the stakes of Virginia Woolf’s room today.
Come Together: Queer Art in a Time of Social Distancing
Jonathan Alexander discusses how to view Xavier Schipani and Paul Mpagi Sepuya's exhibitions from behind a screen and have them still mean something.
Subversive Decoration: Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence at the Hammer Museum
Alexandre Saden gives a retrospective walk-through of the Lari Pittman exhibition at the Hammer Museum earlier this year.
On “Julie Mehretu” at LACMA
Nicholas Andes takes a spin through the Julie Mehretu retrospective at LACMA.
Los Angeles Plays Itself as Itself
Perwana Nazif recaps the Frieze Los Angeles fair.