Muralist and Public Art Advocate Judy Baca on Her New Show at MOCA Los Angeles, and Why So Much Community Art Is ‘Denigrated’

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Muralist and Public Art Advocate Judy Baca on Her New Show at MOCA Los Angeles, and Why So Much Community Art Is ‘Denigrated’

by Catherine Wagley

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‘The Gallery System Itself Is a Redistribution Scheme’: Commonwealth & Council’s Founders on Pooling Its Resources for the Collective Good

by Catherine Wagley

Art & Exhibitions

Can an Exhibition Be a Portrait? The Hammer Museum Paints a Complicated Picture of Joan Didion With Its New Show

by Catherine Wagley

Museums & Institutions

The Orange County Museum Opens Its New Home, With a Focus on Celebrating Women Past and Present

by Catherine Wagley

Diana Zlotnick Was the L.A. Art Scene’s Original Booster. So Why Are Her Contributions in Danger of Being Lost to History?

by Catherine Wagley

Museums & Institutions

Let There Be Light (and Space): Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Reopens After $105 Million Selldorf Renovation

by Catherine Wagley

A New Generation of Idealists Is Learning From the Artist Pension Trust’s Mistakes. Can They Deliver on Its Promise?

by Catherine Wagley

The Artist Pension Trust Had a Utopian Dream to Give Artists a Shared Retirement Fund. It’s Devolved Into Legal Threats and Despair

by Catherine Wagley

This Year’s Made in L.A. Biennial Highlighted Art That Was Actually Made in a Lot of Other Places—and That’s a Good Thing

by Catherine Wagley

More Than Ever, Art Workers Are Calling Out Their Employers and Others—Anonymously—on Social Media. Can It Make Real-World Change?

by Catherine Wagley

LACMA’s $750 Million Renovation Was Once Hailed as a Powerful Vision of What a 21st-Century Museum Could Be. Now, It’s a Lightning Rod

by Catherine Wagley

Museum Unions Aren’t Just Demanding Higher Pay. They’re Also Fundamentally Questioning the Way Their Institutions Work

by Catherine Wagley

‘I Could Integrate Both Worlds’: How Black Lives Matter Cofounder Patrisse Cullors Uses Dance to Bridge Art and Activism

by Catherine Wagley

Why the New Museum’s Bronx ‘Ideas’ Festival Was Such a Fiasco—and What It Teaches Museums About Their Role in Gentrification

by Catherine Wagley

Museum Workers Across the Country Are Unionizing. Here’s What’s Driving a Movement That’s Been Years in the Making

by Catherine Wagley