Art on the Road

Art on the Road: On the Oregon coast, a crossover of art and nature

A "PaintOut" tradition with friends, begun by artist Nelson Sandgren in 1978 and carried forward by his son Erik, gets a lively retrospective at Oregon State University's Giustina Gallery.

Art on the Road: Sculptures with stories

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.

Art on the Road: ‘Imagined Fronts – The Great War and Global Media’ at LACMA

"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.

Surrealism and Subversion at The Getty

Art on the Road: In Los Angeles, links to past and present, peace and war in the art of William Blake and Arthur Tress

Art on the Road: At the Museum of Latin American Art

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.

Art on the Road: Made in L.A. 2023

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.

Art on the Road: Come for the murals. Stay for the mothers.

Along the San Fernando Valley's "Mural Mile," art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place's people and cultures.

Art on the Road: History captured in LACMA prints

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.

Art on the Road: Horticultural treasures and the politics of memory

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.

Art on the Road: Norton Simon Museum

The Portland-raised tycoon's eye for art and acquisition helped build a highly personal collection in Southern California.

Art on the Road: PaintOut on the Oregon Coast

Sitting in on one of Erik Sandgren's painting-from-nature group adventures in Depoe Bay. A photo essay by Friderike Heuer.

Art on the Road: Following Maya Lin

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.

Art on the Road: On (un)predictability

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.

Art on the Road: Kollwitz in L.A.

An expansive exhibit at the Getty gets to the grit of the great German modernist's life and work.

Art on the Road: Transparency in Tacoma

An LGBTQ+ glass art exhibition at the Museum of Glass is a celebration, a memorial, and an unveiling.

Art on the Road: Whitney Biennial

The power of codes in the art of black women: an adventurous show talks smartly with art on the streets.

Art on the Road: Hudson Yards

An architectural enclave for the uber-wealthy rises in Manhattan, with a hollow folly in the middle.

Art on the road: Circus in Montréal

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,…

Art on the Road: Where Tuff meets Tough

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.…

Art on the Road: Au Naturel, Astoria

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…