Arts

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Lee Alexander McQueen, Troy Montes-Michie, and more.

“Kalli” means home in Nahuatl, and that theme guides much of the work by Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves’s Kalli Arte Collective.

To play devil’s advocate, you could argue that eventually technology will be so good that everyone will have VR, and there is no need to travel to the National Gallery at all to see art.

Relationships, not isolation, inform Kahlhamer’s ideas of identity

The chef’s Barrio Café in Metro Phoenix is home to the bold and the beautiful.

At Leipzig’s Grassi Museum, a Tanzanian-German artist collaboration is reimagining the removal of a plinth as sculptural gesture in its own right.

Glimpses of statelessness and belonging.

A youth-centered arts nonprofit prioritizes creativity and radical joy as it looks to the future.

Richard Yarde’s watercolors make a historical document into something personal, wistful, more a vision than a visual fact.

Rather than centering on death, Novenario broadens the meaning of mourning as it explores how artists transform pain and loss.

The artist’s work features heavily in Twin Cities museums, but new USPS stamps depicting his distinctive landscapes may help broaden his legacy.

This week, an early conceptual artwork by Yves Klein goes to auction, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will finally include a section on the pivotal role of Jewish immigrants, the inventor of GIFs dies, and much more.

Materials from the poet’s personal library testify to lifelong engagement with the Black community.

Is the earth a necropolis in which the survivors live among the dead and their sarcophagi, which includes museums, pyramids, and monuments of all kinds?

I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort.

The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible?

Despite all of the ancient painted objects in our museums, it’s rare to see an actual paint set.

The Getty is exhibiting exquisite anatomical illustrations from the 16th century to the present.

What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.

Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling.