Arts

Hundreds of artists, writers, and intellectuals convened at the First World Festival of Black Arts in apparent harmony, but it was also a stage for contradictions and paradoxes to be unpacked.

The fair fosters a welcoming environment for all those with an appreciation for art, regardless of background or technical know-how.

This week, a Black Southern quilt collection is donated to a Mississippi museum, the fascinating AI-generated ceramic glazes, a map of Italian Fascist monuments, and can clothing ever truly be recycled?

The jazz drummer’s polymathic experimentation also spanned visual art, botany, and even an improvisational martial art he invented called Yara.

Many writers will tell you that writing is a physical activity. Renee Gladman’s drawings convey that idea in a more visceral, less cerebral way.

In a new show, Nicole Marroquin’s artworks are in dialogue with the documentary photographs of Mexican-born artist Diana Solís.

Indian artist Diptej Vernekar attached puppets of Hindu avatars to exercise equipment that anyone could activate and engage with.

“You think you’ve been hired because you’re the right person. But once you’re inside, you realize you’re not the right fit,” says curator eunice bélidor.

Jake Berthot’s paintings are haunted by an awareness of mortality and, beyond that, a feeling that no light awaits in the darkness.

In her world, there is no detritus and everything (everyone) is charged with potential.

Integrating techniques of Islamic art with branding, Saj Issa examines globalization’s impact on intersecting identities.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Alison Saar, Kade Twist, a show on the visual language of protest, and much more.

“We don’t have to go to Long Beach, or Downtown, or West LA to the Getty,” said artist Anthony Lee Pittman. “We can see art right here.”

The exhibition Small is Beautiful, featuring over 100 tiny art pieces, is now on view in New York.

An excitement and urgency is present in each of his works, resulting in posters that are equally informative and visually delightful.

Jimmy DeSana’s work remains transgressive, even by today’s standards.

Dakota Noot presents an exhibition of works by LGBTQ+ Chicanx artists and offers insight into his curatorial process.

Scenic, historic, and oh-so-very California spaces that justify an art pilgrimage.

The orphanage-turned-house where Rauschenberg exhibited his work and threw parties is open by appointment for archival research.

This week, artist studios in Ohio, California, Queens, and Brooklyn.