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Balancing sex appeal with soul-gazing pathos, Dorian Ulises López Macías makes portraits that capture the range of Mexico's dark-skinned majority.

An energizing summer show explores facades and faces. Plus: an exhibition on marginal states and Valkyries at the Bowl, in our weekly arts newsletter.

I FELT LIKE I was artfairing for the very first time. Was it always this distracting, so disorienting? The return of FOMO is particularly weird. Between the Super Bowl and the Oscars, Los Angeles had its first major art week since February 2020. Though centered around the Frieze Art Fair in Beverly Hills, the pageantry also included the Felix Art Fair at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, Spring Break (an artist-directed fairish thing) in Culver City, and about a million parties and openings, di...

In L.A., feeling lonely doesn't have to be a bad thing. This list of curated experiences will help you hopefully see that, at least in this city, loneliness is nothing to fear.

Classic films, old bars and 19th century Romantic paintings are all fodder for Guerrero. Plus, Sanford Biggers at CAAM and Frank Gehry's latest in our weekly arts newsletter.

Classic films, old bars and 19th century Romantic paintings are all fodder for Guerrero. Plus, Sanford Biggers at CAAM and Frank Gehry's latest in our weekly arts newsletter.

Print Gabriela Ruiz aims to engage people in her world. Monochrome multimedia installations, sculptures exploring the surveillance of people of color at the laundromat, live performances where she’s dousing herself in Fabuloso over bubblegum pink bars of Zote. A color-drenched personal style, inspired by the video vixens of the early 2000s. She’s the kind of artist whose work makes you go, “Yeah, she seems cool.” Ruiz, a 30-year-old native of the San Fernando Valley, is a rising star...