Los Angeles: 9 Museum Exhibitions Explore Alice Coltrane, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Ben Caldwell and KAOS Theory, 21st Century Black Diasporas & More
LOS ANGELES-AREA MUSEUMS are presenting an array of exhibitions featuring works by Black artists. Exhibitions are exploring Black art history through the lives and work of key African American artists and cultural figures, including Ben Caldwell, Alice Coltrane, George Washington Carver, and Nellie Mae Rowe, each of whom deserve to be more widely known. The...
‘Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe,’ a Survey Spread Across Two Institutions, Presents Female Forms That ‘Activate Legacies of Bodily and Spiritual Survival’
DUALITY IS A CONSISTENT THEME in the work of Alison Saar. The multidisciplinary artist has long centered the female body and the wonder of nature in her practice, using figurative forms to explore cultural narratives and contemporary events. In her latest exhibition, she considers the binaries of body and spirit, earth and air...
