For this year's Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum's sixth biennial, curators Diana Nawi and Pablo José Ramírez hope to spark a reparative conversation between community histories and collective isolation.
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"In this film, Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives, gives us a tour of The Casablanca Art School exhibition and introduces us to some of the school's key artists; Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa and Mohamed Melehi. See The Casablanca Art School exhibition at Tate St Ives 27 May 2023 – 14 January 2024" - Tate
Judging by its nicknames (Tinseltown, La-La, City of Angels) Los Angeles nestles in the collective imagination as a place that's not quite there: Not surreal, like, say, Las Vegas, but irreal, a mirage consistent with its true nature as a desert basin populated by freeways, movie studios, and glitzy neighborhoods sprawling through arroyos and canyons. Then, of course, there’s the evanescing quality of L.A.’s light, which seems to suspend everything within it like motes in a projector beam.
Here are five objects from The New-York Historical Society's exhibition “Women’s Work" that illustrate the evolution of women's work in American culture.
Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas" explores the life of this groundbreaking artist and educator. On view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from September 15, 2023 – June 2, 2024, the exhibition highlights her distinct abstract style, which creates a dazzling interplay of pattern and vibrant color.
While photo restrictions have been lifted on Pablo Picasso's famed Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum, this permission may stifle quiet contemplation.
The British Museum has announced that Mark Jones, a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, would be its interim director. The announcement, which was made via news release over the weekend, comes on the heels of the recent crisis in August when the museum revealed that over 1,500 artifacts had been stolen from its storerooms.
Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, showcases new large-scale paintings and works on paper that integrate a mixture of art history, folklore, human anatomy, microbiology, horror, and pop culture to create abstract artworks that speak to the cultural and political oppression and ensuing resistance that we find ourselves grappling with today in America.
"Gain a deeper understanding of Van Gogh’s artistic process through new discoveries from recent technical studies of Wheat Field with Cypresses and Cypresses in The Met collection. Hear from Museum experts about how these examinations have enriched our understanding of Van Gogh’s materials and process and shed light on his artistic vision." - The Met
Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s largest and oldest art museums. Located in Chicago’s Grant Park, the museum houses the works of some of the nation’s most prominent artists, such as Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Archibald Motley (1891-1981). The museum’s collection also includes the works of many stalwarts of the Western canon beyond the U.S.
