Among an array of work by local artists at Post-Fair and the Other Art Fair, the only white cubes to be found were floating in craft cocktails.
Sigourney Schultz
Sigourney Schultz is an LA-based art writer and editor. She holds an MA in Art History from Hunter College in New York City.
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The K-Pop Granny Pirate of the Pacific Rim
Yaloo’s multimedia work addresses the intersection of human and non-human consciousness, and the gap between technological advancement and spiritual practices.
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What Does Depeche Mode Have to Do With Vietnamese Americans in California?
For the so-called “1.5 Generation,” music allowed an escape from the binary between home and school, Vietnamese traditions and American culture.
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How Did the Korean Feminist Movement Influence Art?
A new book spans artists from the 1970s through today around 15 themes, including body art, queer politics, ecofeminism, and the North American diaspora.
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The Political Was Personal for Yong Soon Min
An exhibition showcases the late artist’s lifelong commitment to considering the relationship between the unremitting Korean War and her own diasporic identity.
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A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.
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Maia Ruth Lee’s Art of Movement and Memory
Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness.
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The Critique-Profiteering Work of MSCHF
Combining the provocative spirit of internet trolling, clickbait scamming, and MTV’s Punk’d, the collective satirizes consumerism while making bank.
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Yong Soon Min, Intrepid Korean-American Artist, Dies at 70
As a self-proclaimed “Cold War baby,” Min navigated the shifting political climate of post-war Korea and plumbed the Asian-American diasporic experience.
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Ludovic Nkoth’s Fleeting Feelings of Home
Through his practice, Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth continuously grasps to connect threads of home as it remains a shape-shifting and ever-moving target.
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Italians Are Mad at Their Country’s New “Barbie Venus”
A government tourism campaign depicting Botticelli’s Venus as a “virtual influencer” is widely criticized as trivializing the nation’s cultural heritage.