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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....
Art
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....
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....
“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....
Returning the Gaze
Margot Mifflin reviews Catherine McCormack’s “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies.”...
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....
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....
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.”...
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....
Van Gogh Experiences: Immersive Art in the COVID Era
Rachel Teukolsky on the joys and shortcomings of immersive Van Gogh exhibits....
Breaking Up with the Arts
The pandemic has highlighted the broken relationship between artists and the institutions that support them....
Walking in L.A.
Janet Sternburg’s latest collection of photos finds beauty in the quotidian....
Caring for a Living: Aliza Nisenbaum’s NHS Portraits
The artist’s 2021 Tate Liverpool exhibition was a tribute to National Health Service staff....
“I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Peter Catapano remembers his friend, the animator and musician Gary Leib....
Kafka, the Artist
Kafka’s visual art is now available in a database maintained by the National Library of Israel....
Museums in the Age of Globalization
Donatien Grau’s rich collection of interviews assesses the meaning of the encyclopedic museum today....
Letter to the Editor: Martha Buskirk Responds to Alex Weintraub
Martha Buskirk responds to Alex Weintraub’s review of her book "Is It Ours?: Art, Copyright, and Public Interest."...
Jesse Jackson’s “Suburban Ecologies”: Irvine, Refracted
For Catherine Liu, Jesse Jackson’s exhibit “Suburban Ecologies” affords a provocative and unsettling reading of Irvine....
Sight and Insight: “Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler”
An exhibition of Paulina Peavy’s work explores the artist’s fascination with spiritualism and alien consciousness....
Picturing the Public Interest
Alex Weintraub considers “Is It Ours?,” Martha Buskirk’s new book on art and copyright....
Against Mug Shots
How can artists create images that counter the carceral state?...
Signs of Urban Life: On “The 99% Invisible City” and “The City Beneath”
Two books decipher the hidden meanings behind urban design, from sewage systems to graffiti art....
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles....
Darkness on the Edge of Town
A photo collection catalogs the use and abuse of American land....
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