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Author Archives: Lorissa Rinehart
Lorissa Rinehart is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Perfect Strangers, and Narratively. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions at institutions including the Queens Museum, Flux Factory, and the Armory Show. In her free time, Rinehart chronicles the ethnobotanical histories of urban flora through her ongoing project, City Plants.
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Looking Back on the Art and Media of 1919, the Year World War I Ended
The Huntington Library is exhibiting 250 of its objects that were made, edited, or acquired in 1919.
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The Legacy of Artists at LA’s Otis College, Which Turns 100 This Year
In its early years, Otis’s success rested on the intersectionality of its students who also came from a diversity of creative fields.
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Looking at the Roots of the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Beginnings succeeds in reanimating the dialogue that began in the school’s classrooms and hallways, and in following it, as it spilled out into the streets of a country.
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The Journalism Collective Fighting Back Against “Post-Truth”
The documentary Bellingcat explores the limits and possibilities of activists using social media and public data for investigation.
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A Graphic Novel Looks at the Limits of Freedom in Revolutionary Cuba
By approaching Castro’s Cuba from the margins, author Anna Veltfort creates a unique lens through which to observe the mechanisms by which a political system acts upon those who live within it.
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A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump’s America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose’s Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he’s doing to the US as president.
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Why Splattering Eggs on a Museum’s Walls with Other Women Was So Satisfying
Sarah Lucas’s performance at the Hammer Museum was satisfying, liberating even. Women are not supposed to express anger, and we sure as hell aren’t supposed to make a mess.
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Developing a Collective Language of Resistance Across the Centuries
It’s not often that you find a space in which communication is not only possible, but encouraged across time, discourses, and borders.
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At CalArts, Graduating Students Are Making Sincere and Rigorous Work
A substantial number of works held a great deal of possibility and promise at this year’s CalArts Graduate Open Studios.
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Sewing a Pillow for Every Bed Occupied at US Detention Facilities
The “34,000 Pillows Project” began in 2009, when the Detention Bed Mandate required ICE to occupy an average of 34,000 beds every night across 250 detention facilities nationwide.
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Hilarious Plays and Ceramics Spun on Wheels at the Santa Monica Art Walk
On Saturday, crowds packed the airplane hangars converted into studios to see the works of artists who opened their spaces for the day.