Ken Gonzales-Day Centers History’s Margins

LOS ANGELES — Ken Gonzales-Day is both an artist and a scholar: Most of his art projects result from extensive research, and some have been published in book form. As revealed in the illuminating exhibition History’s “Nevermade” at the University of...

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall

This fall, museums around Los Angeles are showcasing art’s ability to foster community, to rage against injustice, and to rewrite history. A historical survey of Mail Art in Latin America highlights subversive networks of artistic production in the face of...

The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art

LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is as sprawling and diverse as the city she calls home. Buchanan studied art at the University of California, Irvine, from 1965 to 1971, along...

Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape

SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in cobalt blue light. The buzz of neon lights drones in the background. It’s hard to say if the temperature has truly dropped, or if it’s psychosomatic, that the...

Months After LA Fires, Altadena’s Black History Endures

LOS ANGELES — A set of watercolors by two-year-old Micah Zuri Davis-O’Connor is one of the first works to greet viewers as they enter the south gallery of the California African American Museum (CAAM). The paintings are abstract, carefree, and bursting with...

Jin Meyerson’s Orbits of Belonging

Jin Meyerson, “EVENT HORIZON” (2025), oil on canvas (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut William Anders captured the first color photograph of Earth from space as the Apollo 8...

LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds 

A US Border Patrol agent stands in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on August 14, 2025. (photo courtesy Little Tokyo Rapid Response Network via JANM) Dozens of masked federal agents descended on the Japanese American National...

A Photographic History of Queer Intimacy

LOS ANGELES — A circa 1848 daguerrotype featuring a nude lesbian couple engaging in foreplay meets Matías Sauter Morera’s AI-assisted fictional portrait of what he terms a “pegamacho,” a rural heterosexual Costa Rican man known to have discreet sexual encounters with...

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August

This month’s exhibitions bring a transformative twist to the everyday, imbuing mundane items with psychological, political, and personal depth. At Regen Projects, Kevin Beasley embeds clothing and other objects into luminous and vibrant resin panels, while at Parker...

Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art 

LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the arts of war,” says the narrator of a United States Army film production over documentary footage of male figures drawing before it cuts to a clip of an animated cartoon...

The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism

MONTEREY PARK, California — “EN CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCIÓN” “LESBIANAS. UNIDAS. ¡FELICES!” Such battle cries embody the poetic optimism of Latina lesbian activism across borders at the Vincent Price Art Museum’s On the Side of Angels. Captured by posters for marches in...