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The Atlantic | Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest

The Atlantic | A New History of the Western Hemisphere

The Atlantic: The ‘Dark Prophet’ of L.A. Wasn’t Dark Enough

The Atlantic | The Domestic Thriller That Shatters Chilean Myths — The Atlantic

Fresh Air | AI eavesdrops on your sleep in this nightmarish 'Dream Hotel'

Fresh Air | 'Pedro Páramo' captures the disorientation of Juan Rulfo's timeless novel

Fresh Air | This summer’s must-see documentary is a 4-hour YouTube video about the Star Wars Hotel

New York Review of Books | Poisonous Objects

NYRB | Close to the Punches - Vincent Valdez at CAMH

NYRB | The Return of Trump—VI | A dispatch on the arts in Trump's second term

NYRB | Mickalene Thomas at the Broad by Carolina A. Miranda

NYRB | Mythic Chaps — "Cowboy" in the New York Review of Books

Art Insider for KCRW | Guide to Frieze Week for 2026

Art Insider for KCRW | At Tierra del Sol, 'Model World' is the world made small

Art Insider for KCRW | LA’s infamous ghost tower is made into sculpture by Sayre Gomez

Art Insider for KCRW | Let’s talk about sex

Art Insider for KCRW | Salomón Huerta's enigmatic still lifes of guns

Art Insider for KCRW | The very large furnishings of Robert Therrien at the Broad

Art Insider for KCRW | Ofelia Esparza's VPAM retrospective features dazzling altars

Art Insider for KCRW | The Guerrilla Girls and the art of protest at the Getty

Art Insider for KCRW | Sandra Vásquez de la Horras magical drawings at ICA LA

Art Insider for KCRW | Hammer Museum's biennial is 'meh' in LA

Art Insider for KCRW | LACMA's 'Grounded' examines the land on which we stand

Art Insider for KCRW | Ken Gonzales-Day's survey at the Fisher examines painful history

Art Insider for KCRW | A love letter to Japanese American car culture

Art Insider for KCRW | Queer Lens at the Getty chronicle queer photographic history

Art Insider for KCRW | OCMA’s biennial is a feverish teen dream

Art Insider for KCRW | Performance artist The Dark Bob makes a record for artists

Art Insider for KCRW | My House Burned Down

Art Insider for KCRW | The Jar Jar Binks of LA museums?

Art Insider for KCRW | "Ainadamar" at LA Opera sings to art's power

Art Insider for KCRW | Daniel Hawkins' 'Desert Lighthouse' is a beacon in the Mojave

Art Insider for KCRW: Marc Kreisel resuscitates the legend of Al's Bar in a new museum

Art Insider for KCRW: Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's strange and surreal photography

Art Insider for KCRW: How LA museums can stand up to Trump policies

Art Insider for KCRW: Must-see gallery shows at David Zwirner, Hannah Hoffman and Luis De Jesus

Art Insider for KCRW: Corita Art Center debuts new Arts District gallery

Art Insider for KCRW: Love, grief and Alice Coltrane

KCRW’s Art Insider's guide to LA's 2025 art fairs and gallery shows

Art Inisider for KCRW: The influential film you can finally see

Art Insider for KCRW: When the less good idea is the better one

Art Insider newsletter for KCRW: Art and the fire this time

Hyperallergic | Ingrid Hernández Reveals Tijuana’s Hidden Beauty

Hyperallergic | Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground

Hyperallergic | The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright

Alta Journal | Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams: Artists Divided by War

Alta Journal | The CIA and the Collagist

Alta Journal | Spy, Refugee, Outsider: The Sympathizer Captures Fractured Identity

Alta Journal: And Getty Created PST

Alta Journal | Down for the Count: Alex Espinoza's "The Sons of El Rey"

Alta Journal | Take a Breath: “Breath(e)” at the Hammer Museum — Alta

The Year of Meh: It’s the 2024 Architecture and Design Awards

The Good, the Bad, and the Overbuilt: It’s the 2025 Architecture & Design Awards | by Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange, Carolina A. Miranda | Dec, 2025 | Medium

The column WaPo didn't run

Washinton Post | Preposterous ICE videos have a holy war to sell you

Washington Post | Protesters’ most powerful weapon: Art

Washington Post | The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade

Washington Post | How a Salvadoran prison became a political human zoo

Washington Post | The New Sun King

Washington Post | How Silicon Valley boys came to rule politics

Washington Post | Welcome to the era of Trump Trad

LA Times | Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89: Nobel laureate from Peru was the last of 'El Boom' novelists

LA Times | Julio Torres survived the visa office and the art world. His first film skewers both

LA Times | Sphere can be bizarre and sublime — or just an ad. That's what makes it so Vegas

LA Times: Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life

LA Times | This L.A. flash-fiction star thinks novels are 'saggy.' Her own debut proves her wrong

LA Times | A sculpture shown at LACMA ended up on Craigslist. A DJ turned it into a sound studio

LA Times | Can the new wing of New York's Natural History Museum help reframe outdated ideas?

LA Times | How the 'cool aunties' of pop culture flout the growing restrictions imposed on women

LA Times: Zoot suit: How the bold look made history and continues to influence fashion

LA Times | A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience

LA Times | Two exhibitions — at VPAM and the Cheech — put Chicanx bodies front and center