“I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Peter Catapano remembers his friend, the animator and musician Gary Leib....
Kafka, the Artist
Kafka’s visual art is now available in a database maintained by the National Library of Israel....
Museums in the Age of Globalization
Donatien Grau’s rich collection of interviews assesses the meaning of the encyclopedic museum today....
Letter to the Editor: Martha Buskirk Responds to Alex Weintraub
Martha Buskirk responds to Alex Weintraub’s review of her book "Is It Ours?: Art, Copyright, and Public Interest."...
Jesse Jackson’s “Suburban Ecologies”: Irvine, Refracted
For Catherine Liu, Jesse Jackson’s exhibit “Suburban Ecologies” affords a provocative and unsettling reading of Irvine....
Sight and Insight: “Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler”
An exhibition of Paulina Peavy’s work explores the artist’s fascination with spiritualism and alien consciousness....
Picturing the Public Interest
Alex Weintraub considers “Is It Ours?,” Martha Buskirk’s new book on art and copyright....
Against Mug Shots
How can artists create images that counter the carceral state?...
Signs of Urban Life: On “The 99% Invisible City” and “The City Beneath”
Two books decipher the hidden meanings behind urban design, from sewage systems to graffiti art....
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles....
Darkness on the Edge of Town
A photo collection catalogs the use and abuse of American land....
Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor....
