Planning for Utopia
The darker side of postwar suburban order.
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Open Art
An arts engagement project of Zócalo Public Square and the Getty.
Sculpting Gravity
Making visible the earth’s elegance, through art.
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The Photographs That Helped Save a National Icon
Carleton Watkins’s powerful images helped convince Congress to save Yosemite.
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When Spray Cans Meet Quill Pens
A new exhibition pairs rare books from the 15th to 18th centuries with Los Angeles graffiti artists.
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The California Dream, In Photographs
A foil to Julius Shulman’s B&W glamour, Maynard Parker captured middle-class modernism.
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Hot Sauce, Be My Fiery Muse
How do you make art about Tapatío and Sriracha? First, eat many tacos…
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Does Art Belong on a City Bus?
An artist creates an urban opera set inside a bus, with joyful movement as the plot.
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Which Artist Would You Recommend to a Space Alien?
A beginner’s guide to the human mind and heart.
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In This Unusual Exhibition, Sculpture Is Best Viewed by Car
Art best viewed from behind the wheel? In Century City, cast bronzes of SoCal fauna create an outdoor, drive-by art gallery. A tour.
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David Hockney in the Promised Land
Why is vibrant color, like green, characteristic of Hockney’s landscapes of Northern England?
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Is That an Art Exhibition in Your Ear?
L.A.’s smallest gallery show is currently taking place inside a human ear.
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The Saints of Skid Row
Artist J Michael Walker finds a saint very much alive in downtown Los Angeles.
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