Ellen C. Caldwell

The exhibit “It is obvious from the map” opens at the REDCAT in Los Angeles in March and its topic could not be more timely...

It is obvious from the map, an exhibition at REDCAT organized by Thomas Keenan and Sohrab Mohebbi, showcases a variety of maps, videos, archival material, and other multimedia ephemera that highlight migration, migrant rights, and social justice in both the twenty first century and the age of surveillance...

While I was in graduate school, I was dating a boyfriend for almost five years. During the last year we were together, he was cheating on me. This also happened to be during a grueling time for me personally and physically...

Japanese artist collective Chim↑Pom has stirred up controversy at the US-Mexico Border, building numerous installations near Tijuana’s border. A treehouse in Tijuana, labeled a USA Visitor Center, is decorated with American icons like Huckleberry Finn...

Los Angeles-based artist Frohawk Two Feathers rewrites history by mixing fact and fiction. The multi-disciplinarian imbues the past with the present, as he plays with themes of Afrofuturism and the colonial imaginary....

Artist Ken Gonzales-Day uses die-in photos from Ferguson and Los Angeles to visually trace the roots of our justice system today....

Due to its unconventional construction, new scientific methods are being used to repair and stabilize the Watts Towers....

A new exhibit at the GRAMMY Museum explores the lyrics and cultural contribution of Tupac Shakur....

This past summer, I led a seminar inspired by the #FergusonSyllabus movement that Georgetown history professor Marcia Chatelain started back in August of 2014, in the wake of Michael Brown’s death,…...

By: Ellen C. Caldwell. I am pretty sure that I was born with a genetic mutation, or at least it's one in America: I don't like sandwiches....

By Beth Caldwell & Ellen C. Caldwell. This article explores the impact of images on California voters’ perceptions of criminals, and the resulting support of “get tough on crime” propositions within the state.

Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor. Byron Bradley | “Trayvon," digital, 5400 x 2700 pixels, 7/14/2013, Courtesy of the artist. In the wake of this case, ......

By Ellen C. Caldwell. In my kitchen, I have a big white serving bowl with small font circling its rim, quietly but surely proclaiming, “The world revolves around my kitchen.”

We deposit eight million metric tons of plastic ocean pollution annually—see how artists teamed up with scientists to address this environmental crisis....

Camille Page’s underwater paintings blend a perfect amount of the figurative with the abstract. Painting with a palette knife in a kind of push-pull-combination of heavy applications of paint and fierce scrapings, Page creates large paintings that feel familiar and momentous.