art and soul
Sept. 8, 2022
The Queer Artist of Color Exploding Those Very Labels Christina Quarles captures how it feels to be in any human body.
art and soul
Feb. 16, 2022
Alia Shawkat’s Private Art Practice Is Now Public The Search Party actress on her first solo show, on view this week at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles.
For Gillian Wearing, Authenticity Is a Matter of Opinion In her Guggenheim show “Wearing Masks,” the British artist explores the gray area between the self and performance.
the bigger picture
Sept. 24, 2021
A Different Kind of Family Photo Album With Santa Barbara , photographer Diana Markosian recreates and reimagines her mother’s pursuit of the American Dream.
essential workers
July 1, 2021
They Sewed Protective Masks and Gowns. Who Protected Them? Three L.A. Apparel garment workers on the company’s deadly COVID outbreak last year, when 375 people in one warehouse tested positive.
art and soul
Mar. 4, 2020
See an Artist’s Celebration of Black Hair Acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson has a beautiful new book.
Beyond Harajuku: On Tokyo’s Fashion Landscape Now A new book captures the avant-garde looks of Tokyo’s modern street style.
photography
Feb. 21, 2018
What Does It Mean to Dress Like a Woman? From Bangladeshi garment workers to U.S. First Ladies: portraits of women at work.
Trans Women Reclaim Places of LGBTQ Hate Crimes A photography show at the Museum of Sex documents Peru’s LGBTQ community.
The Brooklyn Museum Revisits The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago A new exhibit honors the tenth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Radical Latin-American Women Who Changed the Art World More than 120 artists are featured in a new Los Angeles retrospective.
Queer Chicano Artists and Activism in 1970s L.A. A new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Unseen Photographs of Black Female Activists See portraits from the ICP showcase “Black Lives (Have Always) Mattered.”
Remembering Georgia O’Keeffe’s Minimalist Style Her suits and silver jewelry are on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
A New Exhibit of 1960s Paris Fashion Reminds Us That Everything Is Cyclical A vintage yellow YSL jacket in FIT’s new retrospective looks a lot like Calvin Klein’s latest hit.
Yayoi Kusama Made the Ultimate Instagram Exhibit The artist’s mirrored infinity rooms open in Washington, D.C., this month.
This Vogue Editor Creates the Wildest Photo Shoots A new book goes behind the scenes with Phyllis Posnick.
An Artist’s Ode to New York City Sanitation Workers Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the Department of Sanitation’s official artist-in-residence.
The Female Artist Who Challenged Hitler’s Nazis Collages from the new book Hannah Höch: Life Portrait.
Pushing the Outer Limits of Photography A new exhibit focuses on experimental works.
Oh, to Be These Extravagant, Wanderlust Friends Why not photograph your friends traveling the world?
Private Moments Hidden in the Public Eye Photographs from the ICP’s new exhibit Public, Private, Secret.
Tour This Museum in an Abandoned Elevator Shaft It has Trump vodka, Caitlyn Jenner cookies, and cornflakes.