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As the Getty Digitizes the Archives of the Woman’s Building, Artists Remember Its History
Suzanne Lacy and others remember the Woman's Building, whose history is being preserved by the Getty Research Institute thanks to a recent grant.
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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Kellie Jones on the Rise of Performance Art in the 1970s
Jones discusses the role that performance played in the work of Latin American and African American artists.
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Remembering Las Mariposas, the Sisters Who Resisted a Violent Dictatorship
The sisters formed a political group, the Movement of the Fourteenth of June, in opposition to the violent dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. They were assassinated in 1960.
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A Reconsideration of Power Structures in the Art Community
Anuradha Vikram, head curator at 18th Street Arts Center, talks about how the "lack of professional standards can undermine important cultural and social justice work."
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Cal State Long Beach Students Protest Museum Director’s Firing
Since Kimberli Meyer was controversially fired from the University Art Museum, students have penned letters, staged a silent protest, and created artworks in response.
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From Monument to Commodity, Karl Marx in a Post-Cold War World
Two hundred years after Marx's birth, the Wende Museum and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles have organized a discussion on the significance of communist monuments today.
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A Prisoner’s Reintegration into Society Is the Focus of a New Theater Piece
JACK &, a new theatrical piece from Kaneza Schaal, stars Cornell Alston, who served a 33-year sentence at a correctional facility.
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Inglewood Artists Open Their Studios This Weekend
Dozens of artists are participating, from those who have been developing their style over decades to those fresh out of art school and self-taught artists.
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Giant Prisms Shine Their Multicolored Light on a Pasadena Park
The art and science AxS Festival culminates with a collaboration between artist Liliane Lijn and UC Berkeley astrophysicist John Vallerga.
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Performance Scores and Instructions for the Midterm Elections
Los Angeles artists perform in anticipation of next week's elections, and, if we're lucky, there may be a special appearance by Pigasus, a 145-pound pig.
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Ahead of Midterm Elections, the Art Community Responds to Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”
Participants include artists Edgar Arceneaux and Edgar Heap of Birds, curators Helen Molesworth and Kimberli Meyer, and students from a Prison BA Program at California State Prison, Lancaster.
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Aria Dean Searches for an “Ontology of Blackness”
In Dean's works, we shuttle between experiences as personally lived and the sweeping generalizations of the media and historical modernism.