Arts

This week, a Palestinian poet tells his story, West African henna, the art of board game design, the rise of the “girl” in 2023, charcuterie board personalities, and more.

We asked our staff and contributors to look back on a year in art around the world, from major museum shows to unexpected gems in alternative spaces.

Parols, traditionally symbolizing the star of Bethlehem, illuminate homes in the Philippines and the diaspora during the Christmas season.

Sitting on Chrome at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reminds us that to be unhurried and unbothered can be an act of resistance.

Her spotlight on elderly women’s sexuality and energy challenges the images society often projects onto grandmothers as feeble and non-sexual.

Dignity Plus, staged in an Altadena funeral home, addressed themes of mortality and memory while making use of improbable spaces for art.

“As a collection that’s interested in accessibility and letters, we look at one of the most democratic versions of letters that exists,” said Letterform’s Kate Long Stellar.

A series of traveling art shows commemorates the anniversary of the protests against China’s authoritarian regime.

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.