Arts

In the southwestern LA County city’s annual art event, local artists and newcomers explored spiritualism, freedom, and everyday slices of life.

Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists prompts questions about shared contexts and individual expression.

Voice a Wild Dream dismantles the idea that activism is driven by individual charismatic figures; in reality, social change is possible because many hands come together.

The “Loophole of Retreat” symposium at the Venice Biennale demonstrated that the personal is not only political; it’s also where most of humanity lives.

The three medallions by James “Yaya” Hough, who served 27 years in prison upon being handed a life sentence as a minor, are now on display in Battery Park City.

Art Fair 14C, which returns to Jersey City for its fourth year this weekend, has become a destination for locals seeking community and affordability.

This week, voter surveys, the ideology of “longtermism,” Arthur gives Hyperallergic a shout-out, and more.

Bing’s search was not about style, being fashionable, or fitting in. It was about trying to acknowledge the multiple worlds one inhabits.

The maddening fun of plein air painting still tempts artists to test the rules of outdoor artmaking.

To photographer Janice Chung, the neighbordhood of Flushing in Queens, New York, is an unmatched, irreplaceable epicenter, both symbolically and in reality.

Artist Jayson Musson guides a potty-mouthed, weed-obsessed bunny named Ollie through his version of art history.

For years, Minaya reflected warped perceptions of Indigenous and diasporic peoples by concealing bodies in textiles; now, she is revealing the people behind the patterns.

In Contemporary Ex-Votos, Mexican and Mexican-American artists analyze their identity beyond external ideas.

Rashid Rana and Amin Rehman trace the roots of the climate crisis back to human mismanagement and the government’s lack of investment.

The conference organizers set out to see what Native practitioners are making, and what they’re needing or wanting in the realm of type.

Who designed the first sticker? And does anyone care about it anymore?

Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.

Locke’s stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.

With The Metabolic Studio, artist Lauren Bon views her work as an act of reparation, an attempt to reverse the colonization of Southern California.

Canal Convergence, 10 years strong, brings large-scale interactive artworks to Scottsdale, Arizona’s waterfront.