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:

Georgia Gardner Gray

Heji Shin

Isabelle and Lita Albuquerque

Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki

Patti Smith

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Diana Al-Hadid

Mariam Ghani

Paul McCarthy

Pippa Garner

David Altmejd

New Theater Hollywood

Samara Golden

Sabine Moritz

An Evening at Atelier Crenn 

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

Navel Gaze: Hannah Villiger

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

Group Show Summer

Body Map: Amanda Wall

A Bird’s Eye View: Nikita Gale

David Zwirner's LA Chapter

Looking for Ernie Barnes

Mapping Utopia: DRIFT

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

Chanel’s Dallas Homecoming

No Middle Ground: Carsten Höller x Prada

Activists Can Like Champagne, Too: Andrea Bowers

Superhouse Gets Supersized with New Location

Fringe Fashion

Her Body is a Castle: Jasmine Wahi

The Poetics of Mark-Making: Vamba Bility

Xiyao Wang Dreams in Charcoal

A Room of Her Own: Oda Jaune

Joan Snyder Still Blooms

Maia Ruth Lee’s Vast Space

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

MHYSA Drenched in Light

Nairy Baghramian is Slouching Towards Abstraction

Orlando Estrada's Mindscapes

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?”

Why Lifting Up the Next Generation of Queer South African Photographers is Integral to Zanele Muholi’s Work

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

‘I Find Freedom in Constraints’: Aura Rosenberg on Making Art That Transgresses the Bounds of History, Sexuality, and Memory

Framed by a Painting of the Hudson, the River in New York’s Chinatown Is the Art World’s Latest and Chicest Watering Hole

Furniture Works by Jorge Zalszupin, Master of Brazilian Modern Architecture, Go on View at Sean Kelly Los Angeles

Artist and Designer Thomas Barger Makes the Leap From Tables and Chairs to Wall-Based Works

Azerbaijani Artist Faig Ahmed’s Sculptural Rugs Blur the Line Between Art, Craft, and Optical Illusion

The First Exhibition of JB Blunk’s Jewelry, at Kasmin Gallery in New York, Offers an Intimate Look Into the Late Sculptor’s World

In a First, Balenciaga Offered a $45,000 Bench From Its Flagship Store by Artist Tejo Remy Online—It Immediately Sold Out

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)