Equity and Inclusion for All? Curator Anuradha Vikram Chronicles Her Path Through L.A.’s Diversifying Art Scene
The artistic director of 18th Street Arts Center surveys the city she calls home.
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Michael Asher
The Artist America Built: Daniel Joseph Martinez Visits Other Places and Other Histories in His Ongoing Critique of These United States
It's a sight that no one who attended the 1993 Whitney Biennial is likely to forget, one that came to stand for the Biennial itself, with its provocative emphasis on politics: ordinary people of all…
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Moving Targets
Collaboration and community have been central to L.A. painter Laura Owens's practice since the 1990s, though she now stands in the center of debates about the role of artists in gentrifying cities.
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From the Archives: In and Out of Place
The exhibition "WHY PICTURES NOW," a survey of Louise Lawler's work from the 1970s to the present, opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this week. We looked in our archives and found "In and…
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Inside Job: In the Tradition of Institutional Critique, Artists Are Throwing Wrenches Into the Art World’s Works
The standard hours for contemporary art galleries have been set in stone for decades: 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday. But quite a few people attempting to visit A. L. Steiner's exhibition this…
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A Timeline of Attempts to Fix the Art World
From the founding of the Louvre in 1793 to the emergence of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles in 2012 to the start in 2013 of GCC, a collective focusing on contemporary Gulf culture, this…
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Morning Links: The Art of War Edition
Jessica Hagy has illustrated Sun Tzu’s The Art of War using simple ink-on-index card drawings of Venn diagrams and x-y plots. [Harvard Business Review] Tejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com…
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Michael Asher
Asher’s always meticulous interventions encouraged spectators to reconsider the ways they thought about art, including how and why they valued it and what they valued it for.
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Michael Asher, 1943-2012
"Few artists have had a larger role than Michael Asher in establishing Conceptual art within both art schools and museums," Kirsten Swenson wrote in Art in America in a May 2008 article ("If Walls…
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L.A. Stories
Shining light on uncatalogued archives, misplaced works, and undocumented careers, more than 60 venues in Southern California present shows on the art of postwar Los Angeles
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