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This week, Pieterspace hosts a discussion on making art during fascism, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive celebrates its new home, the Museum of Contemporary Art honors a Day With(out) Art with a film screening, and more.
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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This week, Pieterspace hosts a discussion on making art during fascism, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive celebrates its new home, the Museum of Contemporary Art honors a Day With(out) Art with a film screening, and more.
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This week, discuss the election at an open forum, make textile-based works on Black Friday, see two important new films about race and civil rights, and more.
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Human Condition features work by 80 artists spread over three floors of the former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, which is planned for conversion into condos.
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This week, LA Louver opens an exhibition of influential street artists, LACE hosts an overnight happening, Human Resources presents a weekend-long festival of video art produced by LA women, and more.
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This week, Kohn Gallery screens a restored version of Bruce Conner's seminal 1958 film, Ace Gallery closes its Beverly Hills location, Lara Schnitger leads a street parade from the Hammer Museum, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, the J. Paul Getty Museum screens Derek Jarman's meditative movie Blue, Peter Blake opens a solo show of work by Light and Space pioneer Helen Pashgian, REDCAT presents a contemporary dance spectacle, and more.
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Three exhibitions currently on view in Los Angeles explore horror, dark fantasy, and the occult, which is perfect timing for this Halloween season.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, LA's newest museum, the Main Museum, has a soft opening, museums along Grand Ave. open their doors for free, a Día de los Muertos celebration kicks off in Grand Park, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week the Hammer Museum hosts a retrospective of the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the California African American Museum throws an opening party for several new exhibitions, artists transform a project space into a freaky and funky haunted house, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, Machine Project presents an underwater art show, an exhibition on youth culture in Los Angeles opens at the Vincent Price Museum, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel hosts German artist Isa Genzken's first solo show in LA, and more.
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This week, a horror-themed art show-cum-escape room opens at Think Tank, Montreal-based artist Sabrina Ratté makes her LA debut at Young Projects, Walter Thompson-Hernandez speaks about his "Blaxicans of LA" photo series, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition opens on an overlooked Bay Area arts movement, a show in an abandoned hospital explores what it means to be human, Mexican artist Mónica Mayer lectures on feminist art, and more.