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LACMA’s New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path Some visitors may feel unmoored by the museum’s open plan and free-floating associations, but others will welcome the unconventional approach.

The new LACMA finally opens this weekend (well, for members), a single concrete structure designed by Peter Zumthor. I wrote about the highlights, the misses, and its novel curatorial approach that is both disruptive and liberating, for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lacmas-new-b...

i'll be in conversation with new/old media art duo Blinn and Lambert this Saturday at 5:30pm at Izzy Lee Gallery (formerly North Loop West) in LA Chinatown, come through! www.northloop.art/blinn-and-la...

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This April David Alekhuogie’s defiant collage, Hannah Tishkoff’s visual poetry, an iconic Angeleno printmaking studio, portraits of Palestinian journalists, and more.

my @hyperallergic.com picks for 10 LA shows to see this month, with Hannah Tishkoff at Ochi, Bob and Bob at Craig Krull, David Alekhuogie at commonwealth and council, Dave Muller at Art Center, and more! hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms.

For @hyperallergic.com, I wrote about the wondrous, funny, and moving #RobertTherrien show at the @thebroadmuseum.bsky.social, which runs through next weekend. hyperallergic.com/taking-a-sea...

Artists Grapple With Cesar Chávez’s Legacy After Abuse Allegations The farmworker movement led by Chávez and Dolores Huerta, one of his accusers, has been a central influence for generations of Latine and Chicano artists.

Artists Grapple With Cesar Chávez’s Legacy After Abuse Allegations, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/artists-grap...

Well then welcome to the Streisand effect

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March The artists of Nature Morte gallery, Hayv Kahraman’s painted libations, Jesse Wiedel’s screwball American dream, the late Nona Olabisi’s homegrown muralism, and more.

10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Frieze LA Meets the Real World Intentionally or not, this year’s edition brought issues of class, labor, and immigration into the fair tent.

I tried to make sense of Frieze LA 2026 and the role that art fairs play (not sure I succeeded) for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/frieze-la-me...

Your Guide to Fairs and Shows This LA Frieze Week In true Angeleno fashion, a slew of local exhibitions and art events act as a counterbalance to this year’s eight fairs — or more, depending on how you define them.

My concise @hyperallergic.com guide for the LA art fairs this week, plus a few non-fair events! #friezeLA #Felix #PostFair hyperallergic.com/your-guide-t...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Omg how did I not know this!

Kinda reminds me of Saul Bass’ poster design for “the man with the golden arm” (but less artful obvs)

Step Into the World of Studio Ghibli's “Ponyo” A new exhibition at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles conveys the film’s whimsy and wonder through interactive elements.

New show exploring Hayao Miyazaki's visionary animated film "Ponyo" opens at the Academy Museum tomorrow, via
@hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/step-into-th...

Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89 His experimental photo-sculptures and inventive portraits of artists like Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha pushed the boundaries of photography.

You may not know Jerry McMillan's name, but you've certainly seen his photos. The preeminent chronicler of the freewheeling LA art scene of the 1960s and 70s passed away on Monday at the age of 89. My obit for @hyperallergic.com #jerrymcmillan hyperallergic.com/jerry-mcmill...

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Spring Arshile Gorky’s road trip with Isamu Noguchi, Steve Arnold’s queer baroque aesthetics, Chicano photography, photography in the Black Arts Movement, and more.

my @hyperallergic.com picks for 15 LA shows to see this spring! hyperallergic.com/15-art-shows...

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

There are raids going all over Los Angeles. I just saw video of ICE chasing some guy through the parking lot of my local supermarket.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

Just cause someone gives you their trophy, doesn’t mean you actually received the award.

From our pal, the amazing @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

can someone explain to me how ice goons could possibly have blanket immunity when cops and soldiers don't? like i understand the current admin isn't big on the law, but is there any legal basis for this?

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This January Olga de Amaral’s refined material spectrum, Marianne Vitale’s tainted minimalism, Marina Stern’s architectural precision, and much more.

happy new year world. here's my first list for 2026 of ten LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Yeah I’m doing dry January…dry martini January!

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Zolan Kanno-Youngs Jan. 3, 2026, 12:34 p.m. ET3 minutes ago Zolan Kanno-YoungsWhite House reporter Trump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.

Was the clue when he said we were going to occupy Venezuela for years to make sure we took their oil