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March 9, 2022 • View in browser
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen. | Allison Conner
What stands out most to me about Jenkins’s practice is his unwavering belief in creating your own forms of art and storytelling. His images jam signals, finding space to broadcast pirate frequencies that widen our sense of time and space. Without Your Interpretation transmits you to other worlds, making us question what we’re consuming through our computers, phones, and other technological tools.
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Cannes Prizewinner Great Freedom Opens in Theaters
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The Brilliant Blooms of EJ Hill’s Painted Flowers
“I was sad and tired, so I decided to buy myself flowers,” Hill shares. | Eva Recinos
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CLOSING SOON
Brian Wills “Untitled (Beveled layered dual color)” (detail) (2021–2022), single strand thread on bass wood, 24 x 24 inches (image courtesy the artist and Ochi Projects)
Brian Wills
Ochi Projects through March 12
Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through March 13
Soviet Jewish Life: Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks
Wende Museum through March 20
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze
California African American Museum through March 20
