Nikita Gale, ECHO I and ECHO II, 2018, acoustic foam, cement, approx. 5.5 x 8 x 1.25 in and 7.25 x 6 x 1.25 in. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Photo: Ruben Diaz.

In Conversation with Nikita Gale 

Experiencing Anonymity Through Abstraction

Contemporary And: Édouard Glissant’s notion of opacity plays an integral part in your current exhibition. H ...

David Shrobe, Portal, 2017, mixed media, 42 x 38 x 7 in. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

David Shrobe: Somewhere in Between 

Decoding Black Materiality

Karen Jenkins-Johnson and David Shrobe’s discerning curation of Somewhere in Between begins with the brillia ...

Magia, 2014, stiching, binding, and different fabrics

Sonia Gomes  

“My Work Is Black, Feminine and Marginal”

“My work is Brazilian,” ends the book simply titled Sônia Gomes published by Cobogó. These words are cen ...

Chandra McCormick.

'Slavery. The Prison Industrial Complex' 

The LA exhibition attempting to re-humanize US prisons

Photographers have been interested in recording the lives of people imprisoned in penal systems since the 1800 ...

Helen Salomão, Full Boom, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Axé Bahia  

The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis

In both the exhibition and the book, The Axé Bahia collection of images, artifacts and music is a celebration ...

The Colour Black

Kerry James Marshall: The Mastry 

The Colour Black

The black in Kerry James Marshall’s work is never accidental or immaterial. Marshall’s black is matte, and ...

Arthur Jafa, Dreams are Colder than Death (Still), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.

Seeking a new form of Black subjectivity  

Love is the Message

In his new single-channel video installation Love is the Message, the Message is Death at MoCA Geffen in LA, A ...

A Woman of Hard Surfaces

A Solo Retrospective on Belkis Ayón 

A Woman of Hard Surfaces

It’s only right that the venue for the first US solo retrospective on Belkis Ayón would be held in Los ...

Curating reaches a wider audience

Art + Practice 

Curating reaches a wider audience

  Los Angeles is building it’s reputation as a city for the visual, with new galleries opening  and th ...

Noah Purifoy: Storytelling through Junk

A retrospective 

Noah Purifoy: Storytelling through Junk

In a hundred degree heat sits Ode to Frank Gehry and Sixty-five aluminum trays, blue sky encompassing their li ...

Personally mapping LA

Art and community work 

Personally mapping LA

Artist Mark Bradford engages in his old neighbourhood in South LA, where he recently opened an art space that ...


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