“At the Edge of the Sun” at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles February 24–June 1, 2024 Related Articles ARTnews Announces ARTnews Awards The Biggest Gallery Shows to See in LA during Frieze Week Nearly half of Los Angeles’s population identified as Hispanic or Latino during the 2020 US census, but blue-chip galleries in this city have only rarely …
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“Scratching at the Moon” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Curators: Anna Sew Hoy and Anne EllegoodFebruary 10–July 28, 2024 Related Articles ARTnews Announces ARTnews Awards Asian American Art Survey in LA Highlights the Power of Artists Living in Community Three years ago, artist Anna Sew Hoy approached ICA LA director Anne Ellegood about organizing a …
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons, for “Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold” at the Brooklyn Museum September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024Additional venues: Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles For more than three decades, María Magdalena Campos-Pons has used her body …
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Delcy Morelos, for “Delcy Morelos: El abrazo” at the Dia Art Foundation, New York October 5, 2023–July 20, 2024 With her large-scale sculptures composed primarily of earth, Delcy Morelos has filled entire rooms with large-scale installations that explore how humans relate to the land they walk upon. Soil, hay, cinnamon, and cloves recur in these …
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Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio for “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles November 12, 2023–June 16, 2024 To relaunch its “MOCA Focus” exhibition series, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles chose LA-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio to take over a portion of its sprawling Geffen Contemporary location. Marking Aparicio’s …
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Installation view of “Una Luz: Photography Under Confinement in Venezuela” at the Visual Arts Center, 2024. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein Between 2010 and 2012, artist Violette Bule held a series of free photography workshops in penitentiaries in her home country of Venezuela. Over 3,000 images were created by the workshops’ incarcerated participants. That archive remained out of public …
Nadia Myre, Your Waves of Want Wash Over Us (detail), 2024, installation view, at CIAP Vassivière, 2024. Photo Aurélien Mole The first thing Nadia Myre did when she went to do her residency on an island in a man-made lake in central France was to make her own charcoal. At a local grocery store on …
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Installation view of “Black Ancient Futures,” 2024, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Photo Bruno Lopes In 2008, Danish Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers traveled to Ghana, where she visited Fort Prinzenstein, which was built by Danish traders in 1784 and used in the transatlantic slave trade. Located in Keta, in the West …
Georges Seurat, Evening, Honfleur, 1886 Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Georges Seurat’s most famous painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884), hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago, where visitors jostle forward and back to observe the composition as a whole before moving in to the study the technique—pointillism—that’s made …
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Getty Images Nothing haunts art researchers like the paintings, sculptures, and prints that they can’t track down—whether for a catalogue raisonné, an artist’s archive, or a scholarly article. This is felt even more acutely by those with a sentimental connection to an artwork that has disappeared into a private collection or changed hands without leaving …
