Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Alternative Realities and Counterfactual Enigmas: On Joseph Giovannini’s “Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde”
A challenging and compelling study of avant-garde architecture.
Sam Hall KaplanMar 14, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Alive with Potent Energy: The Work of Sylvia Snowden
An engaging exhibition of the artist’s vivid canvases was mounted late last year in Los Angeles.
Johanna Drucker Feb 27, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture
Yevgeniy Fiks’s new book offers a rare glimpse into the Soviet Union’s ideological views on race and Blackness.
Sarah ValentineFeb 7, 2022
- Art & Architecture
“A Dyed-in-the-Wool Revolutionary Spirit”: Paul Gorman on the Legacy of Barney Bubbles
The late album-cover designer had a singular sensibility as recognizable as Lichtenstein’s or Kandinsky’s.
Elizabeth NelsonJan 24, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Returning the Gaze
Margot Mifflin reviews Catherine McCormack’s “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies.”
Margot MifflinJan 23, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Living, Breathing Expressions of Self: On Jennifer Higgie’s “The Mirror and the Palette”
Higgie’s book tells a remarkable story of women artists’ self-possession and creativity.
Paris A. Spies-GansJan 18, 2022
- Art & Architecture
The Melancholy of Embodiment: Dara Birnbaum’s Mass Media Investigations
A facsimile edition of Birnbaum’s notebook from the 1970s, with detailed drawings, installation plans, and notes for projects.
Gracie HadlandJan 13, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Art in the Speculative City: A Conversation with Susanna Phillips Newbury
Kate Wolf speaks to Susanna Phillips Newbury, author of “The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles.”
Kate WolfDec 20, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Biddy Mason in Images: A Monumental Life in Monumental Forms
A pioneer of Los Angeles’s Black community comes to life in a LACMA exhibition.
Arielle Xena AlterwaiteDec 17, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Van Gogh Experiences: Immersive Art in the COVID Era
Rachel Teukolsky on the joys and shortcomings of immersive Van Gogh exhibits.
Rachel TeukolskyDec 11, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- Economics and Finance
Breaking Up with the Arts
The pandemic has highlighted the broken relationship between artists and the institutions that support them.
Alexis ClementsDec 2, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Walking in L.A.
Janet Sternburg’s latest collection of photos finds beauty in the quotidian.
Geoff NicholsonNov 12, 2021
- Art & Architecture