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Legendary DIY Zine Hippie Dick Returns for a Night of Experimental Film
In the early '90s this collaged and photocopied zine a DIY aesthetic to celebrate a hairy, faerie queer community, and now it's back for one night.
Matt Stromberg
Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. He is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic and is also an associate instructor in Art at Mt. San Jacinto College.
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A Golden Opportunity to See the Los Angeles Arts Community on Display
The ninth annual LA Design Festival will feature talks, installations, exhibitions, and events hailing the city's legacy in architecture, fashion, graphics, industrial design, and other disciplines.
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Conjoined Costumes and “Antler-Locked Combat” Reflect the Fashion of the '70s
The Skirball Cultural Center in LA will host a performance of choreographer Bella Lewitzky’s 1976 dance piece Inscape as part of the exhibition Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich.
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A Radio Play Performance Unpacks the Way We Anticipate Global Crises
York Chang and Daniel R. Small's "The Map Is the Territory" will discuss the implications of the government using A.I. to predict world events.
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A Day-Long Celebration of Intersectional Punk Rock
Los Angeles's A Right to Defiance festival will feature performances, panels, and workshops that refute the notion that punk rock is a straight White man's genre.
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Dreamlike Projections Hidden in an Alleyway
Artists will bring shadow puppetry, magic lantern animations, peepshows, and more to LA's Chinatown for Dissolving Sights II, the opening of Peephole Cinema.
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MOCA Los Angeles Hosts Workshops and Discussions on the Homelessness Crisis
This year's Community Day is focused on youth affected by the homelessness crisis, which finds its most visible manifestation in the temporary shelters just blocks from the museum.
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A Festival of Innovative Tech Art from 75-Plus Women Artists in Los Angeles
Despite the overwhelming gender imbalance in technological industries, FEMMEBIT brings together a diverse group of women who collectively argue that the future may very well be female.
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Discover the Origins of LA’s Oldest Children’s Theater Company
From May 28 to August 3, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be in residence at Oxy Arts on York, a brand-new community-based arts space established by Occidental College.
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Play-Testing a New Card Game for Radical World Building
The Afrofuturist Podcast is inviting a game designer to unveil his custom-designed deck of cards, which will prompt and inspire the audience to imagine diverse scenarios.
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JR, Shepard Fairey, and Other Muralists Collaborate with LA High Schoolers
In addition to their input, students were invited to assist local and international artists in completing the murals, as well as serve as subject matter in some cases.
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When Barbara T. Smith Traveled the World, Casting Herself as Modern-Day Odysseus
A documentary on "The 21st Century Odyssey" offers an in-depth look at this pioneering work of technologically aided human connection.