Museums are primarily white spaces—not merely aesthetically, but racially as well. The reason that Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s 2018 music video “Apeshit” is set in Paris’s Louvre is that the African American duo symbolically expands a predominantly white establishment to include … Continued

2020 is one of global distress, but artist Betye Saar is having a fantastic year—and at the epic age of 93, she certainly deserves it. Her exhibition Betye Saar: Call and Response—the first comprehensive show of her work and first … Continued

The Artworld is going virtual and after cruising many galleries and museums all over the world on our laptops, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is our hands-down favorite and the best adventure out there in the digital space. … Continued

Exhibitions from the permanent collections of museums can often be a tired affair. You might see some secondary works and sketches, and often, that’s about it. However, rarely does a museum put nine artworks together and create a stunning gallery … Continued

Robert Rauschenberg is not the first artist you may associate with Los Angeles. Perhaps Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, or Mike Kelley spring to mind. Rauschenberg is more known for his time in New York and Florida, but an exhibition at … Continued

Clarity: what does a word like that mean today? There are plenty of interpretations that range from the literal to the psychological to the environmental. Abstraction (which rarely deals in clarity) oddly seems to provide one answer when in the … Continued

The idiom, “playing with fire” implies the kind of wild recklessness that can only be fueled by sexual desire, power, or money. In the case of the late Carlos Almaraz and his artwork, all three support his hypnotic point of … Continued

Cross-pollination pervades the art field. Painters who unwind with a guitar in hand, dancers who sketch, musicians who turn their songs into dance moves – it’s common for artists of all kinds to be magnetically drawn to multiple art forms … Continued