Los Angeles

SEE // Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen
Sola Agustsson |
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Enter the creepy, freaky world of Die Antwoord as seen in Roger Ballen’s photographs.

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BUY // Exquisite Corpse
Sola Agustsson |
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Did surrealist art inspire Los Angeles’s legendary Black Dahlia murder?

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SEE // Catherine Opie's Intimate Portraits
John Morrow |
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Opie’s portraits of Rodarte designers and novelist Jonathan Franzen have the dark beauty of paintings.

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SEE // Nick Van Woert's No Man's Land
John Morrow |
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What do kitty litter, Pine Sol, Gorilla Glue, and Bubble Gum Listerine have in common?

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SEE // Now Dig This!
Sarah Bondoc |
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Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 surveys the art of LA’s African-American community as it was coming into its own.

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KNOW // Ten LA Artists to Keep Your Eye On
Julie Novakoff |
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Meet the next generation of artists living and working in Los Angeles.

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KNOW // The Patriarch of LA Art // Ed Ruscha
Jarrett Moran, Spencer Nelson |
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Ed Ruscha is a key figure in Los Angeles’s ongoing battle for recognition as a center for fine art.

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Land Ho! A Delightful New Voyage for an L.A. Painter
Tiffany Jow |
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Joshua Petker’s latest paintings signify a real sea change for the L.A.-based artist.

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In a Corner of Spanish Harlem, an Artist Records a Latino Struggle
Spencer Nelson |
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Secreted away in the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, an award-winning photographer shoots extreme poverty and extreme violence.

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Watch Out for Hop-Ons!
Tiffany Jow |
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There will be no touching at the forthcoming Arrested Development-themed exhibition in LA.

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A Rock Star Has Arrived
Tiffany Jow |
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Famously reclusive artist Michael Heizer may have declined to be part of MOCA’s current land art exhibition, but that’s probably because he was busy mounting a 340-ton rock into LACMA’s backyard.

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Aaron Young's Motorcycle Diaries
Manish Vora |
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Aaron Young almost got himself kicked out of art school for his motorcycle shenanigans. Now they’ve turned him into an art world rock star.

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