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Los Angeles Youth Spin Their Artful Slogans in a Public Performance
An exhibition and performance use the language of advertising and commerce to celebrate the material culture and community fabric of the MacArthur Park neighborhood.
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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Carrie Mae Weems Brings Her Interpretation of Antigone to Los Angeles
Using music, spoken word, and video, artist Carrie Mae Weems updates this classic story for a contemporary context in her theatrical production Past Tense.
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A Cat Woman Guides an Unusual, Interactive Tour of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
As someone deeply skeptical of technologically aided “interactive” art, I found this to be a thoroughly novel and captivating experience.
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The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Comes to Southern California Museums This March
The program kicks off this Sunday at the ICA LA, with an edit-a-thon focused on women and comedy.
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Challenging the Trope of the “Woman in the Window”
A project places video art by six women of color in the windows of galleries and arts organizations in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
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Video Artists Subvert and Pay Homage to the Hollywood Musical Genre
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions kicks off a series of screenings of video art and experimental cinema that will travel around the city.
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A New Documentary Looks Back on the Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? looks back on an influential book's legacy and features new feminist voices to see how things have changed and what has frustratingly remained the same.
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A Net Artist Takes Over the Google Image Search of “Frieze Los Angeles”
Gretchen Andrew has ensured that her images will top the Google image search results for “Frieze Los Angeles.”
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Los Angeles Frieze Week 2019
This week, Frieze makes its much-anticipated Los Angeles debut and will be joined by a selection of other fairs, ranging from the informal and local to the international and celebrity-laden.
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Women Artists Shatter the Stereotype of the “Valley Girl”
Valley Girl Redefined aims to challenge that very limited depiction of women from “the Valley.”
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Hear from Judithe Hernández, a Crucial Figure of LA’s Chicano Arts Movement
Originally gaining prominence as a muralist, she became the fifth and only female member of the art collective Los Four.
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A Night of Martha Colburn’s Satirical, Surrealist Films
From a hand-painted critique of the evils of television to a humorous celebration of feline exhibitionists, Colburn's singular short films explore a range of themes.