As a Vancouver show tells multiple tales, an inspiring exhibit at California’s Huntington Library concentrates on a single artist: the chronicler of Black life Sargent Claude Johnson.
“We might not be interested in war, but war will be interested in us”: An expansive Los Angeles exhibit on propaganda and art during World War I has parallels to the war-torn world of today.
Art on the Road: In Los Angeles, links to past and present, peace and war in the art of William Blake and Arthur Tress
In a Southern California museum dedicated to the work of Latin American artists, a trio of exhibitions offer food for thought and a feast for the eyes.
A bold exhibition at the Hammer Museum reveals the City of Angels from street level, basking in the textures of the city’s past and its roiling, often overlooked contemporary realities.
Along the San Fernando Valley’s “Mural Mile,” art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place’s people and cultures.
Art and politics square off in a pair of print shows from the Los Angeles County Art Museum and a trip through the city’s sprawling streets.
A grand Southern California camellia garden is built on stock bought dirt cheap from Japanese American farmers during World War II. The whole story is rarely told.
The Portland-raised tycoon’s eye for art and acquisition helped build a highly personal collection in Southern California.
Sitting in on one of Erik Sandgren’s painting-from-nature group adventures in Depoe Bay. A photo essay by Friderike Heuer.
At the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, the artist’s seven “Story Circles” tell a tale of past and present culture from ground level.
On a path from Germany to Southern Oregon, sculptor Christian Burchard goes with the grain as he collects, cuts, turns, and dreams the surprises in the wood.
An expansive exhibit at the Getty gets to the grit of the great German modernist’s life and work.
An LGBTQ+ glass art exhibition at the Museum of Glass is a celebration, a memorial, and an unveiling.
The power of codes in the art of black women: an adventurous show talks smartly with art on the streets.
An architectural enclave for the uber-wealthy rises in Manhattan, with a hollow folly in the middle.
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER IN THE STAUNCHLY CONSERVATIVE, predominantly Catholic German village of my childhood, we children eagerly anticipated three occasions each year. Carnival came around in February, an affair that allowed the entire population to break the social rules
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the second of two visual essays from northern New Mexico, photographer and artist Friderike Heuer visits Georgia O’Keefe’s home territory and revises her thinking about the artist. She also responds to O’Keeffe’s views of the land and sky with
Story and photographs by FRIDERIKE HEUER We have this thing in our household about language. Well, someone has a thing in our house about my language – more specifically, my usage of the verb to love as applied to something other than a human being. Don’t devalue such
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