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Alta Journal | Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams: Artists Divided by War

Alta Journal | The CIA and the Collagist

Alta Journal | Spy, Refugee, Outsider: The Sympathizer Captures Fractured Identity

The Atlantic | A New History of the Western Hemisphere

The Atlantic: The ‘Dark Prophet’ of L.A. Wasn’t Dark Enough

The Atlantic | The Domestic Thriller That Shatters Chilean Myths — The Atlantic

Fresh Air | AI eavesdrops on your sleep in this nightmarish 'Dream Hotel'

Art Insider for KCRW Tavares Strachan's LACMA show is a tour de knowledge 🎓

Art Insider for KCRW | 'MONUMENTS' at MOCA and the Brick reimagine Confederate statuary

Art Insider for KCRW | Shock rockers GWAR storm the art world

Art Insider for KCRW | Hammer Museum's biennial is 'meh' in LA

Art Insider for KCRW | Painters Frank Romero and Karla Diaz on the ways we are watched

Art Insider for KCRW | Derek Fordjour's show at Kordanksy is only open at night

Art Insider for KCRW | LACMA's 'Grounded' examines the land on which we stand

Art Insider for KCRW | 'It Smells Like Girl' at Deitch toys with concepts of female hysteria

Art Insider for KCRW | Ken Gonzales-Day's survey at the Fisher examines painful history

Art Insider for KCRW | A love letter to Japanese American car culture

Art Insider for KCRW | Queer Lens at the Getty chronicle queer photographic history

Art Insider for KCRW | OCMA’s biennial is a feverish teen dream

Art Insider for KCRW | 'Black Cowboys' at the Autry fills a gap (sort of)

Art Insider for KCRW | Performance artist The Dark Bob makes a record for artists

Art Insider for KCRW | Noah Davis's paintings capture the surreal qualities of Los Angeles

Art Insider for KCRW | My House Burned Down

Art Insider for KCRW | The Jar Jar Binks of LA museums?

Art Insider for KCRW | "The Abstract Future" at Deitch

Art Insider for KCRW | A Cuban artist’s colorful riffs on authoritarianism

Art Insider for KCRW | Jeffrey Gibson dazzles at the Broad museum

Art Insider for KCRW | "Ainadamar" at LA Opera sings to art's power

Art Insider for KCRW | Daniel Hawkins' 'Desert Lighthouse' is a beacon in the Mojave

Art Insider for KCRW: Ruth Asawa’s SFMOMA retrospective lands at a poignant time

Art Insider for KCRW: Marc Kreisel resuscitates the legend of Al's Bar in a new museum

Art Insider for KCRW: Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's strange and surreal photography

Art Insider for KCRW: How LA museums can stand up to Trump policies

Art Insider for KCRW | Bruce Nauman's 1970s basketball games

Art Insider for KCRW: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Getty

Hyperallergic | Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground

Hyperallergic | The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright

New York Times | Museum’s Update Sends a Message: Native Artists Are Still Here - The New York Times

NY Times | Henry Taylor’s Mentor Was the Art World’s Bruce Lee

NYRB | Close to the Punches - Vincent Valdez at CAMH

The column WaPo didn't run

Washinton Post | Preposterous ICE videos have a holy war to sell you

Washington Post | Protesters’ most powerful weapon: Art

Washington Post | The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade

Washington Post | How a Salvadoran prison became a political human zoo

Washington Post | The New Sun King

Washington Post | How Silicon Valley boys came to rule politics

Washington Post | Welcome to the era of Trump Trad

Art in America | Photorealism, A Cast-Off Movement, Gets a 21st-Century Update

The Good, the Bad, and the Overbuilt: It’s the 2025 Architecture & Design Awards | by Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange, Carolina A. Miranda | Dec, 2025 | Medium

New York Review of Architecture | MallFresco - on Rick Caruso's malls

LA Times | Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89: Nobel laureate from Peru was the last of 'El Boom' novelists

LA Times | This L.A. flash-fiction star thinks novels are 'saggy.' Her own debut proves her wrong

LA Times | How the 'cool aunties' of pop culture flout the growing restrictions imposed on women

LA Times | Two exhibitions — at VPAM and the Cheech — put Chicanx bodies front and center