Summoning the Ancestors: The Relational Science of Sarah Rosalena’s Decolonizing Aesthetics
Unframed Blog
| Jan 19, 2024
… in its circuitry, its location, and its aims to conquer nature through a totalizing and divisive knowledge of it. … to alienate…
This Weekend at LACMA: Jazz at LACMA Begins, Burton Selects from LACMA’s Collection, and More
Unframed Blog
| Apr 15, 2011
… Smith, Vija Celmins, Elizabeth Taylor in Iran, and Human Nature—we also have two smaller shows opening this…
New Acquisition: Max Ernst’s “The Entire City”
Unframed Blog
| May 16, 2023
… In his key Surrealist years, Ernst turned frequently to nature—creating several series of paintings of gloomy … jungles with…
50 Works 50 Weeks: Carlos Almaraz’s “Crash in Phthalo Green”
Unframed Blog
| Jul 29, 2025
… Almaraz probes the unsettling psychology of the innate human fascination with images of catastrophe and violence. …
These Unprecedented Times: Retracing a Pandemic—2021 Mellon Summer Academy Proposed Exhibition
Unframed Blog
| Aug 23, 2021
… The timelessness of these photos coincide with the cyclical nature of history and the interconnectedness of human…
Romancing the Rock
Unframed Blog
| Nov 20, 2012
… of positive and negative, the profound past and a very human, technologically abstract future/present.  LACMA's … cynically…
Walter Van Beirendonck: Serious Play
Unframed Blog
| May 26, 2016
… a sculptural object—a cage or a carapace that modifies the human form and alters its nature. Worn over the jacket…
Before It Was Art
Unframed Blog
| Mar 20, 2014
… And equally so, it would have thrown into question the very nature of how photography has informed our ideas of beauty, … Its…