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Art Lands on LA's Balconies, Porches, and Yards at the Terrain Biennial
The Terrain Biennial repurposes liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.
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 Festival Fosters Exchange Between Artists from LA and Mexico City
This year the Los Angeles Exchange Festival is starting a tradition of artistic exchange with other cities, beginning with Mexico City.
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A Museum Devoted to Immigrant Histories Opens in Boyle Heights
The Boyle Heights Museum opens this weekend with an exhibition focused on the history of Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression.
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Experimental Film from Chile and Brazil Screens at LA’s Filmforum
Los Angeles Filmforum screens Raúl Ruiz's short films focused on anthropology alongside works by his Brazilian contemporaries Arthur Omar and Anna Maria Maiolino.
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An Artist Who Grew Up in Boyle Heights Navigates the Fight Over Gentrification
This exclusive new short documentary considers the less discussed and more personal perspective of what it’s like to be an artist from Boyle Heights.
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Mixing Camp and Classical Myth in a Play About War and Repression
Sorry, Atlantis: Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge fuses classical mythology, slapstick comedy, and 1930s cartoons to tell a timely story about war, race, power, and sexual repression.
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The Ways and Means of Activist Art, from Latin America to LA
USC's Roski School of Art & Design is hosting an intriguing conversation around the Pacific Standard Time exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas.
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Performing the Artist’s Role in the Community
Artist and production designer Liz Toonkel is hosting her own Town Hall meeting that examines the role of the artist within the community.
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Pacific Standard Time Returns with Sprawling Latin American and Latino Art Program
The Getty's long-awaited initiative on Latin American and Latino Art, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, officially kicks off this week.
News
LA’s New Contemporary Art Museum Celebrates a Flexible, Collectionless Model
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, located in a converted clothing factory on the edge of the Arts District, officially opens on September 9.
News
In Los Angeles, Artists Open a Museum to Resist Displacement
A new arts space, the Artists’ Loft Museum Los Angeles, opened in the Arts District studio of two artists who might be forced out of their longtime home and workspace.
Art
Using Palmistry to Understand Mexican Muralist José Clemente Orozco
On September 7, art historian Mary Coffey and artist Isa Carrillo will reflect on Orozco's mural "Prometheus" at the Pomona College Museum of Art — and offer palm readings in the process.