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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LOS ANGELES — The Annenberg Space for Photography serendipitously opened their latest exhibition Refugee during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates one of our most enduring refugee narratives, the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt (even if its veracity is in doubt).
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LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, the filmmaker Guillermo del Toro shares his creative process at the Los Angeles County of Museum Art (LACMA), Visitor Welcome Center sets up a unique artistic exchange, four artists mine "the depths of Brown creativity/identity," and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, Agnes Martin's only film screens at 356 Mission, a show of paintings by Warhol superstar Mary Waronov opens, REDCAT kicks off its New Original Works Festival, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, queer cinema godfather Bruce LaBruce gets a retrospective, the first Los Angeles Public Art Biennial kicks off, a longtime Echo Park art space holds an auction to raise money for relocation, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, local chef Vinny Dotolo curates a show about the cross-section of food and art, a retrospective of work by Light and Space artist Peter Alexander opens at Parrasch Heijnen, Pieterspace and pehrspace hold a festival dedicated to influential musician Arthur Russell, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, a show featuring five influential female artists opens at Sprüth Magers, Self Help Graphics & Art hosts a discussion on art and gentrification, an artist explores her multifaceted identity in a video work at Grand Central Art Center, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — It’s been a year since the entire incoming MFA class at USC’s Roski School of Art decided to drop out en masse, leaving the program with only one student this year, HaeAhn Kwon. In an open letter to Provost Michael Quick, Kwon announced today that she too would be leaving the program,
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LOS ANGELES — This week, a group show at Cantor Fine Art encourages you to touch the art, artists take over a downtown Art Deco building to consider what it means to be at home in LA, a new film on graffiti's origins in New York and Philadelphia screens, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, Chinatown's Peephole Cinema reopens, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive hosts a performance as part of the second Queer Biennial, Human Resources presents a video installation based on The Shining, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, Daniel Rolnik Gallery holds an epic art carnival, Skylight Books hosts a discussion on art and gentrification, the Getty Center brings back its Friday Flights performance series, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — Art and gentrification have a long and complicated relationship.