SELECTS:
Charles Gaines’ Beauty and Poignance (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles is Burning (Substack)
The Rehearsal: Isabelle Albuquerque (Family Style)
Always Boiling Over: Arthur Jafa (Family Style)
Terence Koh: How the Light Gets In (Elephant)
Trump is America’s Id (Substack)
Sliman Mansour Preserves Palestinian History Through Art (Hyperallergic)
Kevin Cannon (Family Style)
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Healing Instrument (Elephant)
Ming Smith: A Shine and a Song (Family Style)
Frost Children Touch Grass (King Kong)
Jonathan Carver Moore Breaks Gallery Ground (CULTURED)
ARTS & CULTURE ET AL:
Scientia Sexualis (Flash Art)
Wax, Fire, and Light: An Interview with Doki Kim (Substack)
“We Come to Fuck Shit Up”: Theaster Gates Gets Deep with Arthur Jafa (Interview)
This new gallery in L.A. is forging connections between Bay Area and SoCal artists (Los Angeles Times)
Awol Erizku and A$AP Ferg Have a High School Reunion (Interview)
Painter Emma Stern Is Dedicated to the Creation of Hot-Girl Mythology (CULTURED)
At 25, Artist Oscar yi Hou Has Already Had a Solo Museum Show—And Written a Memoir (CULTURED)
Don't Miss These 12 Gallery Shows in Paris and London This Fair Season (CULTURED)
How a Small Press Dedicated to Erotica Took New York's Literary Scene by Storm (CULTURED)
It’s Fatebe’s World and We’re Just Living in It (King Kong)
Sojourner Truth Parsons on Capturing the Magic of Everyday Life (King Kong)
Stefanie Guerrero at Martha’s Contemporary in Austin, Texas — exhibition text (Martha’s)
Thelonious Stokes and Chance the Rapper Bring the South Side to Ghana (Interview Magazine)
‘Mindset of a superfan’: Pooneh Ghana on photographing musicians on tour (The Guardian)
David Lynch’s art is a window into his strange, elusive world (Document Journal)
Tschabalala Self’s Personal Mythology (King Kong)
Who is Hyd? (Office)
Inside ‘My Comrade,’ a time capsule of NYC’s legendary drag scene (Document Journal)
Interview with Designer Helena Eisenhart (Coeval Magazine)
Why we all think Lea Michele can’t read (i-D)
Cookie Mueller’s cult classic writings gain a second life in an intimate reissue (Document Journal)
How I Made This: Reconstructing Colette Lumiere’s “Living Environment” (ARTnews)
Looking back at Thierry Mugler’s breathtaking fashion photography (Dazed)
FAMILY STYLE:
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki
Hans Ulrich Obrist Records LA Art Week
Site Specific: Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson
Bursting at the Seams: Pat Oleszko
If the Walls Could Talk: Chip Thomas
Behind Closed Doors: Anne Buckwalter
Queering Alice Neel: Hilton Als
Wax, Fire, and Light: Doki Kim
For Kerala: Melissa Joseph and Rajiv Menon
Spiritual Technology: vanessa german
An Architect, a Minotaur, and a Painter: Lily Stockman
Moving Mountains: Jordan Nassar
A Return to Dirt: Gisela Colon
A Bird’s Eye View: Nikita Gale
The House is Alive: Olivia Erlanger
One Step Ahead: Jamian Juliano-Villani
Mining for Meaning : Cauleen Smith
Project for Empty Space Takes Off
Gemini G.E.L.: Five Decades of Friendship
El Renacimiento: Zelika Garcia
No Middle Ground: Carsten Höller x Prada
Activists Can Like Champagne, Too: Andrea Bowers
Superhouse Gets Supersized with New Location
Her Body is a Castle: Jasmine Wahi
The Poetics of Mark-Making: Vamba Bility
A Room of Her Own: Oda Jaune
The Family Kiln: Takahiro Kondo
Iris van Herpen’s Metamorphosis in Paris
Christian Ludwig Atersee’s Strange New World
ELEPHANT:
Nicholas Herrera
The Exhibition Proving New York is Not Dead
After Two Weeks of Fire, LA's Art Community Asks: What's Next?
Himali Singh Soin: Daughter of the Mountains
Behind the Scenes of Spiral Theory Test Kitchen
Uman’s Studio in Upstate New York is a Portal to a Kaleidoscopic World
Tosh Basco's Body is a Conduit for Her Vision
Jonny Tanna Is Reimagining Community Art
Nairy Baghramian is Slouching Towards Abstraction
The Third Time's the Charm for Louis Osmosis
Inside Raphaela Vogel's Penalty Box
Ser Serpas’s New York Homecoming
'We Can Become Limitless': Soull and Dynasty Ogun on Their Art World Debut
Art in Odd Places: The Guerrilla Art Festival on 14th Street
What to See in NYC: September Gallery Guide
Daniel Lind-Ramos’s Moving Sculptures Are Vehicles for Puerto Rico’s History
How MHYSA’s Third Album Channels E. Jane’s Archive of Black Divas
These Subversive Works by Beverly Semmes Paint Clothing in a New Light
Before Robots, We Had Puppets: Sculptor Liao Wen asks “Why Do We invent Human-Shaped Things?”
This Imaginative New Exhibition by Sophie von Hellermann Captures the Spirit of Genius
How Emmanuel Shogbolu’s Art Documents the Heart and Soul of the London That Raised Him
How Hamzat Raheem’s Collection of 1,000 Faces is Reshaping our Understanding of Identity
This Painter’s Ode to Intimacy and Loss Is Inspired by His Equestrian Love From Childhood
Artist Explorer Alteronce Gumby Takes Us on a Cosmic Journey of ‘Color’
Martine Gutierrez Lifts the Veil on Her Series of Self Portraits
ARTNET:
Meet the Indigenous Artist Behind the Unsettling Works on the Hit TV Series ‘The Curse’ (Frank Buffalo Hyde)
‘He Was My Camera’: Artist Laurie Simmons Remembers the Pioneering Queer Photographer Jimmy DeSana
Artist and Designer Thomas Barger Makes the Leap From Tables and Chairs to Wall-Based Works
POLITICS & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
‘It made my heart sing’: finding herbs and medicine in the Bronx food forest (The Guardian)
Portola Garden District Returns to Its Roots (KneeDeepTimes)
Interest in Community Police Watch Training Soars as Courses Go Online (San Francisco Public Press)
Community Efforts Raise Nearly $1 Million for Black-Owned Oakland Businesses (San Francisco Public Press)
Oakland Protesters Demand Mayor Lift Curfew and Cut Police Funding (San Francisco Public Press)
School Doubles as Home for Some S.F. Students (San Francisco Public Press)
Cable Car Bells Silenced as Crews Focus on Maintenance in Pandemic (San Francisco Public Press)
Want to Foster a Dog? Get on the Waitlist as Demand Soars at Bay Area Shelters (San Francisco Public Press)
Coronavirus Spurs Neighbors in S.F.’s Sunset District to Create Mutual Aid Society (San Francisco Public Press)
DACA, LGBTQ Rights, Abortion, Gun Control: Cases to Watch in the Supreme Court’s New Term (Newsweek)
Facebook’s Updated Advertising Policy Could Enable Politicians to Spread Misinformation (Newsweek)
From 8chan to Telegram: experts Point to Far-Right Extremists’ New Favorite Messaging Platform (Newsweek)
Congressmen Take Aim at Betsy Devos Over Censorship at Evangelical Liberty University (Newsweek)
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Task Force Criticize Government for Suppressing Climate Science (Newsweek)
Jehovah’s Witnesses Announce Plans to Build Giant Media Center Despite Recent Spotlight on Child Abuse Allegations (Newsweek)
ESPN Sends Second Memo this Year Banning Political Discussion (Newsweek)
How Media Coverage on Homelessness Falls Short And What Reporters Can Do About It (San Francisco Public Press)
Election Ads Overshadowed TV News 7-to-1 (San Francisco Public Press)
Tracking TV News — and the Challenges Involved (San Francisco Public Press)
Slick, Misleading TV Ads Paid OffSlick, Misleading TV Ads Paid Off (San Francisco Public Press)
The Most Misleading Political Ads of 2015 ( San Francisco Public Press)
With Cost of Living Rising Fast, Experts Seek Solutions (San Francisco Public Press)