Open Art

Glamour in Old Beijing

“All reality is a phantom, all phantoms are real.”

Scarlet Cheng | January 17, 2015

On Larry Sultan, intimacy, and photography.

Jia-Rui Cook | January 4, 2015

Walls don’t work. So why do we keep building them?

You’ve never seen the California coast like this before.

Becca MacLaren | November 3, 2014

Writer Victoria Finlay devotes her life to uncovering the human stories behind colors

Victoria Finlay | November 2, 2014

Is the Internet making us weird?

Sarah Rothbard | September 4, 2014

A retrospective at the Met captures America’s postwar ”out-of-control-ness.”

Jia-Rui Cook | August 29, 2014

The darker side of postwar suburban order.

Making visible the earth’s elegance, through art.

Carleton Watkins’s powerful images helped convince Congress to save Yosemite.

Jia-Rui Cook | June 15, 2014

A new exhibition pairs rare books from the 15th to 18th centuries with Los Angeles graffiti artists.

Jia-Rui Cook | June 7, 2014

A foil to Julius Shulman’s B&W glamour, Maynard Parker captured middle-class modernism.

Jia-Rui Cook | May 31, 2014