Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

LOS ANGELES — The Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in LA, provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary art throughout the greater region, attempting to give coherent form to its sprawling and heterogeneous artistic landscape. With this year’s edition, opening to the...

Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression 

When the United States Department of Agriculture established the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937, hoping to provide aid to rural communities affected by the Great Depression, it also implemented a photography project headed by government official Roy...

BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World 

Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller,...