Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…
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A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall….
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All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…
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More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), a recent exhibition at LACMA, was in thrall to its ideas. Though ventriloquism was its central theme,…
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The Orgasmic Capacity of Color: Judy Chicago’s Los Angeles
Throughout this period I was also discovering that I was multi-orgasmic … I was developing color systems which made forms turn, dissolve, open, close,…
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Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
American artist Glenn Ligón is bringing together artworks spanning decades, continents, and themes that closely relate to his work with race and gender in post-war America….
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