Los Angeles: Breathing New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art

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“These artworks grow under immense natural and unnatural threat, boasting their scars as new metaphors for contemporary life in LA.”

“Once she discovered the Xerox, [Barbara T.] Smith never stopped exposing herself — to the light of the bulb, and to the world through art.”

Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at The Broad

First presented last year at the 60th Venice Biennale, the space in which to place me includes painted and beaded wall works and sculptures featuring references to America’s history of racism and repression, as well as the perseverance and solidarity among people of color and LGBTQ+ communities.

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

With work by 60 artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and a special focus on those based on the West Coast, Imagining Black Diasporas takes an expansive view of contemporary Black art.

Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum

In his brief career, the late artistNoah Davis established himself as a significant voice in contemporary American painting. This first institutional survey of his work includes more than 50 paintings created between 2007 and 2015, the year he passed away.

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