Christopher Knight LAT
@knightlat.bsky.social
Art critic, Los Angeles Times; 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism & Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism. Pro-woke, pro-DEI
Bathroom renovation.
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Bathroom renovation.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and a replica "Dukes of Hazzard" Gen. Lee all turn up in the remarkable show, MONUMENTS, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and a replica "Dukes of Hazzard" Gen. Lee all turn up in the remarkable show, MONUMENTS, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Monuments," an art museum meditation on the horrors of 20th century Confederate memorials designed to advocate for Jim Crow oppression, is a thrilling exhibition. Opens next week in LA, running for 6 months.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Monuments," an art museum meditation on the horrors of 20th century Confederate memorials designed to advocate for Jim Crow oppression, is a thrilling exhibition. Opens next week in LA, running for 6 months.
A 15th-century "med bed" by Geratd David.
September 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A 15th-century "med bed" by Geratd David.
The original head of antifa:
September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The original head of antifa:
Oh, look. Hete's scared MAGA Rep. Ken Calvert mailing b.s. to constituents. He voted for the Big Ugly Bill, which has Medicare cuts and does almost zero for most seniors' Social Security. Gavin Newsom' Prop 50 will eliminate Calvert's district (41). Good.
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Oh, look. Hete's scared MAGA Rep. Ken Calvert mailing b.s. to constituents. He voted for the Big Ugly Bill, which has Medicare cuts and does almost zero for most seniors' Social Security. Gavin Newsom' Prop 50 will eliminate Calvert's district (41). Good.
This John Baldessari painting, "Wrong" (1966-68), is in LACMA's collection.
September 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This John Baldessari painting, "Wrong" (1966-68), is in LACMA's collection.
I'm more concerned about the bruised brain.
August 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm more concerned about the bruised brain.
AP photo detail 7/16: Where’s the scar from the AR-15 bullet?
July 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
AP photo detail 7/16: Where’s the scar from the AR-15 bullet?
MAGA & our corrupt Christian nationalist Supreme Court are loaded with hate and bigotry, but not the J. Paul Getty Museum.
June 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
MAGA & our corrupt Christian nationalist Supreme Court are loaded with hate and bigotry, but not the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Fantastic photograph by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP, of the reviewing stand at a draft dodger’s military parade. So many astounding portraits.
June 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fantastic photograph by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP, of the reviewing stand at a draft dodger’s military parade. So many astounding portraits.
I'm not Christian, so this is how I know when Easter rolls around. The purple and gold arrive in profusion.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm not Christian, so this is how I know when Easter rolls around. The purple and gold arrive in profusion.
AP photo of the Gilded Age. (Yes, those are dining table accessories on the mantle.)
April 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
AP photo of the Gilded Age. (Yes, those are dining table accessories on the mantle.)
Elmo is the Velveeta of Wisconsin cheese.
(h/t AP photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
(h/t AP photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Elmo is the Velveeta of Wisconsin cheese.
(h/t AP photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
(h/t AP photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
The publication Earth Rose, created by poet Steve Richmond, was declared obscene in Los Angeles County in 1968.
March 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The publication Earth Rose, created by poet Steve Richmond, was declared obscene in Los Angeles County in 1968.
This cast of Saint-Gaudens' "The Puritan" is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection. Others are in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
March 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This cast of Saint-Gaudens' "The Puritan" is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection. Others are in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
This cast of Saint-Gaudens' "The Puritan" is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York.
March 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This cast of Saint-Gaudens' "The Puritan" is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York.