Matt Stromberg

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives. At Nazarian / Curcio, Widline Cadet reflects on her family’s immigration from Haiti through photo-based works. Akinsanya Kambon’s ceramic vessels draw on the vast Black diaspora, informed by his own life experience as a Black Panther and travels to Africa.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

John Humble, a photographer who insightfully documented the urban landscape of Los Angeles with all of its messy contradictions, died on April 13 at the age of 81 as a result of cardiovascular issues, according to his family. For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, “the oddities, absurdities, and mundane beauty of LA,” as gallerist Craig Krull, who worked with Humble for two decades, told Hyperallergic.

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

CULVER CITY — A historic public artwork by the pioneering Chicano muralist collective East Los Streetscapers was recently painted over, leaving questions as to how or when it will be restored. “Moonscapes III,” a cosmic tableaux wrapping around all four sides of the the Culver City Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), depicted Maya astronomers, contemporary astronauts, Albert Einstein, and other scenes related to the study and exploration of space.

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

LOS ANGELES — This weekend, LA’s newest — and, allegedly, smallest — museum will open its doors to the public. Located on a quiet residential street in Echo Park, Musée du Al is the creation of Marc Kreisel, who founded Al’s Bar, a legendary watering hole and hub for artists and musicians, in pre-gentrification downtown LA.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Joe Goode, a mercurial artist whose more than six-decade career began in the fledgling contemporary art scene of 1960s Southern California, died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 87 on Saturday, March 22, one day before his 88th birthday.