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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Last year, 800 Traction was purchased by a real estate company that issued eviction orders to the residents. This Saturday, they remember their building’s legacy and prepare for the future.
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The two-week performance, video, and music festival features 19 artists and collectives from France and the US and reflects a complex vision of the city.
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The Museum of Failure presents over 100 flops, bombs, and fiascos of innovation, including cars and boats, food and drink, tech gadgets and sex toys.
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The Chicano performance troupe Culture Clash is staging a play at the Getty Villa that is loosely based on Aristophanes's The Frogs.
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The Other Places Art Fair in San Pedro debuts this weekend with 24 independent galleries, artist-run spaces, and collectives.
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The classroom, which hails from a fictional Swiss art school, is set in the 1970s brutalist performance hall House of the Book.
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Artists talk about their techniques and collaborations in Mexico and California.
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Carmen Argote has enlisted a crew of motorcycle-riding artists and collaborators to perform in the park this Saturday.
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The contemporary art space announced last week that it will soon be closing, but not before throwing a farewell party and print sale this Saturday.
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Into Action is a nine-day long pop-up exhibition that aims to reinforce the connection between art and social justice, activism, and cultural resistance.
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The Wanaragua Association of Los Angeles will perform the masquerade dance that dates back to the mid-18th century, when the Garifuna repelled British colonizers.
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A priest of Ifá divination and an art historian discuss the masquerades of Yoruba religion and how they evolved in the Americas.