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Kehinde Wiley Painting Removed From U.S. Embassy After Officials Call It ‘Very Woke’

by ArtNowLA | Sep 2, 2026 | News

Young Artists After Siamesas 1960. The Trump administration has removed a painting by artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after administration officials criticized the work as “very woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.” The...

The Other Supergirl

by Gary Leonard | Sep 2, 2026 | Take My Picture Gary Leonard

Yayoi Kusama, the Artist Who Made Infinity Her Home

by ArtNowLA | Aug 26, 2026 | News

Yayoi Kusama with her work, “Love Is Calling,” at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in 2013. Photo by Will Ragozzino, via David Zwirner, New York. Yayoi Kusama spent her life trying to make infinity visible. Through paintings, sculptures, performances and...

Bert Green Curates Art/Space 114

by Gary Leonard | Aug 26, 2026 | Take My Picture Gary Leonard

Painting the Dream: Staging California in Early Hollywood at OCMA

by ArtNowLA | Aug 19, 2026 | News

Paul Grimm, Untitled, after 1932. UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, gift of George E. Moss, Jr. in memory and honor of Mr. Roscoe and Edith Moss. Hollywood has always depended on illusion, but Staging California in Early Hollywood at the UC Irvine Langson...