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How are ideas about design, art, the global economy and urban planning tied to the concept of work? UCLA professors Willem Henri Lucas, Catherine Opie, Alfred Osborne and Abel Valenzuela discuss "What is Work?"
The arts, athleticism, martial arts and racial politics all interplay with concepts of failure and success. UCLA professors David Gere, Valorie Kondos Field, Janet O'Shea and Lorrie Frasure-Yokley discuss "What is Failure?"
“Bridges in a Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico” is a wide-ranging, multigenerational and rare exhibit of Chicano artwork in Mexico’s capital.
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Native American basketry has long been viewed as a community craft, yet the artistic quality and value of these baskets are on par with other fine art.
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There's a persisting assumption in contemporary art circles that you can't be both a good artist and good mother. These fou artists are working to shatter this cliché, juggling demands of career and family and finding ways to explore the maternal.
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Throughout its history, the natural beauty of California has inspired artists from around the world. Today, as artists continue to engage with California’s environment, they echo and critique earlier art practices that represent nature in California.
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In East L.A. during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of young activists used creative tools like writing and photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement.
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For more than 20 years, Doug Aitken has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His diverse works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition.
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Artbound explores Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" art project, photographer Candacy Taylor's focus on salons and diners, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" and Jeff Speetjens with a variety of marionettes.
The art of Jasper Johns has changed over the decades. His works have taken on a whole new set of meanings in our present-day political climate. All of which makes this landmark exhibition at the Broad as fresh and timely as it was 60 years ago.
Artbound talked with a handful of our favorite L.A.-based artists to ask them when they made their first “real” money from art.