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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
      Artist Ron Nagle: ‘Humour is my best gift. It’s what comes to me most naturally’

      He makes miniature ceramic sculptures which carry an outsized emotional impact

      A man in a black hat leans on a garden gate by a cactus
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
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      Artist Betye Saar: ‘We’ll work our magic on it’

      The 97-year-old turns flora, fauna and found objects into sculptures that reflect powerfully on the past

      An older woman stands with her hand on the prow of a large canoe in front of a blue background
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2023
      Computer art enters the mainstream with Lacma’s Coded show

      1960s pioneers such as Frederick Hammersley and Vera Molnár are finally winning curatorial and market respect

      Hundreds of variously textured pale pink and blue small squares
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
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      Tala Madani: Biscuits — paintings of sharp scatological satire

      The Iranian-born artist’s show at MOCA in Los Angeles is unafraid to pull viewers down into the muck

      A painting in the style of a children’s book shows a family in a car, viewed from the front, with what appears to be a pile of manure strapped to the roof. Two of the people in the car are wearing face masks
    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
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      Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson is reuniting land, people and song

      ‘This Burning World’ inaugurates the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Frieze New York 2022
      Artist Larry Bell: ‘Art is a teacher, it’s not an object’

      Best known for his coloured glass sculptures, Bell reflects on a lifetime of changing how we see things

      A man in a dark fedora and jumper
    • Friday, 11 February, 2022
      Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2022
      Ben Sakoguchi’s art from America’s concentration camps

      The Japanese-American artist explores his second world war internment in deceptively warm paintings

      Seventeen-panel painting with one large central panel and the other surrounding it
    • Friday, 11 February, 2022
      Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2022
      Video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins — ‘You get addicted!’

      The LA artist has used film to critique race and create community since the 1970s

      Photo of a man with cubist face paint and a cigarette lolling from his mouth
    • Monday, 15 November, 2021
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      Sculptor Beatriz Cortez: ‘Imagining is already optimistic’

      The El Salvador-born, LA-based artist melds indigenous culture into her vision of the future for AIB’s Washington DC exhibition

    • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
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      Charles Gaines: Peeling back the layers

      The artist’s conceptual leanings often put him at odds with identity politics — but the world is finally catching up

    • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
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      Artist Robert Longo: ‘Taking down statues was one of America’s greatest moments’

      Ahead of a solo exhibition in LA, the New Yorker talks about his hyperreal transformations of the everyday

    • Friday, 2 October, 2020
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      ‘It’s flipped the script’: Christina Quarles on drawing from lockdown life

      Video calls, masks and isolation have changed the way we see our bodies and faces, says the Californian artist

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    • Friday, 7 February, 2020
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      Ghetto Film School: a new prize championing diversity

      The initiative spotlights young film-makers from diverse backgrounds with a focus on the city

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    • Friday, 6 September, 2019
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      Artist Mark Bradford: ‘I don’t represent anything’

      Ahead of his first London solo show, the superstar US artist discusses his creative process

      Mark Bradford photographed in his LA studio for the FT by Melanie Schiff
    • Friday, 23 August, 2019
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      The forgotten photos that made Michael Jang’s name

      The Californian photographer on how it feels to be ‘discovered’ late in life

    • Friday, 30 November, 2018
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      Outliers and American Vanguard Art at LACMA — cultural inclusivity

      An exhibition of ‘outsider art’ raises questions about how museums shape the canon

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    • Friday, 20 January, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Total immersion: Doug Aitken’s underwater world

      Visitors to the LA artist’s latest work will need scuba gear

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    • Thursday, 8 December, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Njideka Akunyili Crosby on her breakthrough year 

      The Nigerian-born, LA-based artist talks about heritage, identity and why she chose art over medicine

      Njideka Akunyili Crosby
    • Friday, 25 November, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Early Americana: Tales from a new world

      How a home refurbishment in Maine grew into an exceptional collection now on show in California

      ‘Early Portrait of a Woman with a Bowl of Cherries’ (c1770-80) by an unknown artist
    • Friday, 26 August, 2016
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      Interview: on the road with the US artist Sterling Ruby

      Driving through LA, the artist discusses the city that has influenced his work

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    • Friday, 13 May, 2016
      FT Magazine
      View from the edge: Katy Grannan’s photographs at Somerset House, London

      The American photographer talks about her portraits, her new film and making invisible people visible

      Katy Grannan
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