One of the highest profile jobs in L.A.'s art world has officially been filled: The UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood announced Monday that its next director will be Zoë Ryan, who arrives from the ...

Just inside the entrance of Westwood’s Hammer Museum stands a human-sized gingerbread hut by artist Nayland Blake. Left unadorned, its friendly, sugary scent wafts throughout the lobby. Across the ...

Crisp, cloudless skies, coffee brewing and two new shows at the Hammer Museum – it’s autumn in Westwood. The two exhibits, “Witch Hunt” and “No Humans Involved,” were years in the making when the 2020 ...

In the early 1980s, one of the defining developments in contemporary art was appropriation, artists borrowing images or texts from various sources and re-contextualizing them in jarring ways. The ...

“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering,” Oscar Wilde wrote in 1891, “than it is to have sympathy with thought.” The current exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts brims with ...

Daylight can be art’s best friend. Organic luminosity emanates the subtle vicissitudes of perceptual life, which enhances looking at art. Daylight can also be art’s enemy. Fading, bleaching, yellowing ...

“Only a sick society could bear the hoardings, let alone the films.” - Derek Hill (in regards to Hammer films and their output), Sight and Sound 1958-59 The above quote, which opens Marcus Hearn’s ...

"Bodega," the Spanish word for a small variety store, is an beloved feature of any neighborhood with a Latinx population: Los Angeles, Miami. In Harlem, it overlaps with the Black population and is ...

I’m a fan of poster art, and there’s nothing more fun than delving into the archives and seeing sterling examples of both gaudy eyesores and moments of true graphic genius, and in his new book, The ...

Crisp, cloudless skies, coffee brewing and two new shows at the Hammer Museum – it’s autumn in Westwood. The two exhibits, “Witch Hunt” and “No Humans Involved,” were years in the making when the 2020 ...