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Abe Ahn

Abe is a writer based in Los Angeles.

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A Disquieting Look at How AIs Foment Political Extremism

by Abe Ahn January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

“Devil You Know,” a video essay by Don Edler, looks at the emergence of artificial intelligence systems in political discourse and civic life.

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An Online Archive Tells an Alternate History of US Monuments and Architecture

by Abe Ahn September 29, 2020November 5, 2020

At the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, a new “living archive” of stories, objects, and photographs expands our understanding of how we might reconfigure our relationship to the present.

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A Map and Guide to Art Spaces Across Los Angeles

by Abe Ahn and Matt Stromberg January 29, 2020January 31, 2020

Two Hyperallergic contributors compiled a directory of some of their favorite galleries, museums, and nonprofits.

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A Vision for Sustainable Housing and Design in Los Angeles

by Abe Ahn November 25, 2019

The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa makes the case for greater building density and more sustainable design practices to combat the region’s acute housing shortage.

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Visions of California That Don’t Begin or End at the Border Wall

by Abe Ahn October 25, 2019October 30, 2019

The MexiCali Biennial highlights the legacies of colonization along the US and Mexico border.

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The LA Artists Who Advanced Black Stories Through Art-Making

by Abe Ahn August 6, 2019August 5, 2019

The network of artists and collectors who were pulled into John T. Riddle’s orbit is the focus of an exhibition at the Craft Contemporary.

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Inside the Multi-Generational Injustices of White Supremacy

by Abe Ahn July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? is a documentary and live performance about the 1946 murder of Bill Spann, a Black man from Alabama.

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These Pillows Are One Way You Can Help Immigrants Detained by ICE

by Abe Ahn July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

The “34,000 Pillows Project” by artist duo Díaz Lewis offers the public a way to give back to immigrant advocacy groups, and they’ll be hosting a workshop and reading series for the cause at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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Performances and Interventions Inspired by Medieval European Astronomy and Astrology

by Abe Ahn July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts.

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Experience the “Sonic Medicine” Treating a Santa Monica Community

by Abe Ahn July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Two Postcommodity members, along with composer Guillermo Galindo, are partnering with members of a fast-gentrifying Santa Monica neighborhood to produce a sound-based artwork of contested histories.

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Santa Fe Through the Eyes of a Minnesota Chippewa Artist

by Abe Ahn May 14, 2019August 30, 2019

Modern art history, popular culture, and Indigenous people commingle in David Bradley’s imagination of the Southwest in idiosyncratic ways.

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Roy DeCarava’s Intimate Photos of Black Americans, from Billie Holiday to a Loving Father

by Abe Ahn April 30, 2019

Over six decades, DeCarava took to the streets of cities like New York City and Washington, DC to cast Black American lives in ways that went beyond documentary or stereotype.

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