Arts

From 3rd-century depictions to a Star Trek nativity, the art form never ceases to evolve. 

This week, a virtual tour of the Vermeer retrospective, an AI-written novel wins a prize, filling your fish tank with local water, a tribute to poet Refaat Alareer, and more.

Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.

The toy-like scale of LeDray’s art gives everything a glow of childhood play and fantasy while pushing it far away.

Art can be, and often is, a species of combat, a fight to the death.

From quirky ceramics and pet portraits to prints and tufted rugs, peruse our list of presents for this season and beyond.

Made from everyday materials, Lee’s sculptures feel approachable and familiar, reminiscent of home and imperfect human bodies.

Dining With the Sultan at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examines food and culinary customs in 250 works from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and beyond.

Grace and elegance abound in Kambui Olujimi’s paintings on the phenomenon of the dance marathon, but so too do rugged drama and discomfort.

The shuttering of SymbioticA, the world’s first bio arts laboratory, sends many practitioners back to square one when it comes to securing funding for their work.

Extraordinary discoveries, rogue tourists, and moments of institutional failure and abuse of power defined a topsy-turvy year in visual culture.

David Diao uses Barnett Newman as a sounding board to explore his own fascination with the artist and the contradictory legacies of modernism.

This week, homeschooling’s seedy underbelly, penguins taking “microsleeps,” the history of hats, and why are TikTokers quitting vaping?

Her exhibition +Home+ is a mediation on notions of home through the lens of her ancestors, lived experience, and the legacies we leave.

Her photography presents a compelling statement about the fine line between self-investigation and self-objectification.

From orcas to Barbie to Girl Dinner, here’s to the viral moments that brought a smile to our faces — or a flash of karmic justice.

Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.

What can drawing do that other mediums cannot, and when is it a preliminary sketch when is it a final product?

We asked two scholars about the strange depictions of fauna and why they’ve become a viral phenomenon.

This week, artist studios in Buenos Aires, Ohio, Calabasas, and Ojai, California.