Happy Monday! Los Angeles and the range of images it conjures — from cowboys to urban sprawl — appear in artist Doug Aitken’s “Lightscape,” a film and sound work capturing the essence of the strange, layered metropolis. Angeleno Matt Stromberg visits, and reports back below. And though the Venice Biennale closed yesterday, the next iteration is already in the works, starting with French-Morrocan artist Yto Barrada’s selection as the representative for France. Her practice, which is rooted in migration, borders, and climate crisis, may be even more relevant in two years than it is today. Read on for more in this edition, from the viral leopard-print highlighter that everyone wants but no one can find and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s oracular alarm about technology to John Yau’s review of Danny Moynihan’s sentient, fleshy landscapes.
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His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed. | John Yau
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The video art pioneer has been warning us from the start that the more advanced digital tech becomes, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions. | Ela Bittencourt
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This residency at the UM Stamps School partners with the UM Museum of Art offering a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and the museum apse as activation space. Learn more
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“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work. | Matt Stromberg
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
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Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle. | Lauren Moya Ford
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