Maxwell Williams
Maxwell Williams is a freelance writer based in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. His essays about art and culture have appeared in The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, W, Grantland, Interview, The Hollywood Reporter, GOOD, and Art in America.
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Public art in America has changed a great deal in scope and scale. What role does it play today?
Public art in America has changed a great deal in scope and scale. What role does it play today?
A big part of architecture school is getting real-world experience holding exhibitions. With the closures, many students feel shortchanged, but exhibits increase access to professionals.
Whatever you want to call these times we’re living through, they are certainly historic. Four local institutions share with us their approach to archiving COVID-19.
Over four-plus decades, Jeffrey Deitch has grown to a position of influence in the contemporary art world. Read his tale as he navigates being both art world insider and someone above the fray.
Our oceans are both beautiful and in trouble. This is the message running through Doug Aitken’s project on Catalina Island, “Underwater Pavilions.”
The Kronos Quartet created music that accompanies the performers on "Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser."
Densely packed with imagery, each collage and performance by Kandis Williams can lead to a million different microanalyses about race, femininity, and violence.
For years, the world of classical music has tried to court a younger audience. The Echo Society, a group of composers who collaborate with established musicians and light designers, might be the missing link.
As Californians enter the fifth year of drought conditions, we consider 11 artists who have worked with water as a subject or a medium -- individuals who make us rethink the way we engage with this vital resource.
In her movie-like photographs, Cindy Sherman seems to be able to transform into any character. Though she’s a New Yorker, the artist's work has had a consistent basis in Hollywood film.
Floating around the Los Angeles art world is Public Fiction -- a creative space and a publication -- that comes together through the collaboration of many artists.