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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles announces ‘EVITA TEZENO: The Moments We Share Are the Memories We Keep’, a new series of large-scale mixed-media collage paintings. This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the …
The Hammer Museum presents Kara Walker: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Kara Walker (b. 1969, Stockton, CA) has created a poignant body of work that addresses the very heart of human experience. Kara Walker, The Battle of …
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GGLA presents an exhibition focusing on four exemplary quilts by Rosie Lee Tompkins. Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, 1978 – 1982. Cotton, Polyester, 60 x 102cm. Courtesy of GGLA The late Richmond, California artist whose vibrant …
Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936 – 2006) at Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, United States Read Article
The artist’s Los Angeles museum debut explores creative inspiration and collaboration across real and imagined borders. Amir H. Fallah, They Will Say a Collection of Untruths, 2022. Acrylic on canvas; Courtesy of the artist and …
The Fallacy of Borders: Amir H. Fallah at the Fowler Museum, United states Read Article
Exuberant hand-sewn flags reflect cultural, political and social facets of contemporary Fante life. Kwesi Budu, Kormantse workshop, Nkum No. 1 Company Abura Kunkwa, c. 1930. Cotton, synthetic fabric, silk; Fowler Museum at UCLA, X81.1640. The …
Joseph Awuah-Darko officially opened the show ‘A Bed of Roses’, in Accra, Ghana. After a successful exhibition at Gallery 1957 in 2019 and a short break to focus on the development of his fellow artists …
Deborah Roberts critiques notions of beauty, race, and identity in contemporary society through the depiction of Black children. Courtesy of the California African American Museum. The traveling exhibition ‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’, presented concurrently at Art + …
Deborah Roberts: I’m at the California African American Museum (CAAM), United States Read Article
A showcase of work by seven emerging artists and collectives whose work interrogates and disrupts Western modes of humanism. In 1992 the Jamaican scholar and theorist Sylvia Wynter penned a seminal text titled “’No Humans …
‘No Humans Involved’ at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Read Article
Rele Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to present ‘Reading Abstraction: The Space Between’, a group exhibition featuring the works of contemporary African artists Sedireng Mothibatsela, Agnes Waruguru, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro and IyunOla Sanyaolu. The exhibition examines the diverse …
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The title of Serge Attukwei Clottey’s recent solo show – ‘Beyond Skin’ – at the newly opened Simchowitz Gallery in LA, is baffling. Whether it is smart or merely provocative is hard to tell, especially …
Beyond Skin? Ashraf Jamal reflects on Serge Attukwei Clottey’s recent solo Read Article
