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At a moment when women are increasingly losing control over their own bodies, can self-representation become a form a resistance?

Steve Roden, a multidisciplinary artist who produced abstract work in painting, sculpture, sound, installation and video, died at home in Pasadena on Wednesday.

A new LACMA show takes on art in the computer age, the Tony Award nominations, and an influential artist L.A. collective grapples with copyright disputes in this week's newsletter.

You might imagine that we're amid a tidal wave of change at museums. The hard reality? Not so much.

The collection includes images by more than 25 Guggenheim Fellows, five Magnum Photographers and two Henri Cartier-Bresson Award winners as well as prints by lesser-known or emerging photographers from the region.

Milwaukee journalist Mary Louise Schumachers documentary started out as a story about the disappearance of the American art critic. But today we regard it as about a new generation of critics who are recasting how this work is done.

Yolanda López gets a belated show at MCASD. Plus, Holland Taylor as Ann Richards and immersive Frida Kahlo in our weekly arts newsletter.

Sheldon Museum of Art presents a conversation with artist Jill Nathanson and curator and critic Karen Wilkin on October 26 at 5:30 p.m. CDT on Zoom. N

Artists’ Legacy Foundation is hosting a conversation with 2021 Artist Award recipient Nancy Rubins and Tyler Green, historian, author, and producer/host of The Modern ...