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.
Guide
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.
News
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.
News
LOS ANGELES — Art and gentrification have a long and complicated relationship.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, new nonprofit PSSST opens with a series of events on SoCal Latino youth culture in the 1990s, a show of work from seminal Color School painter Sam Gilliam opens at David Kordansky, Andrea Bowers brings a body of labor-themed art to Susanne Vielmetter, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, James Turrell's Perceptual Cell returns to LACMA, UCLA presents an elaborate shadow-puppet play, the Lodge hosts a panel discussion on women in the arts, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, a photographer provides a glimpse into the world of Southern hip-hop, a godfather of the Detroit art scene has a show at artist Henry Taylor's studio, the Women's Center for Creative Work hosts a screening of experimental film by Polish female artists, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, see a forgotten masterpiece of Japanese animation, spot murals on a bike ride through East LA, catch influential Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg's exhibition before it closes, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, explore a meticulous re-creation of thousands-year-old Buddhist caves, listen to two experimental piano performances, join a discussion on the current state of art and feminism, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, painter Ed Moses celebrates his 90th birthday with a retrospective, an exhibition focused on artist collectives closes, an artist invites you to bring your projector for a one-night show of digital and video art, and more.
Guide
LOS ANGELES — This week, Jim Shaw and others reveal the hidden histories of Los Angeles, Giant Robot brings its unique blend of Asian pop culture and art to the Vincent Price Art Museum, CalArts MFA candidates open up their studios, and more.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, Jasmine Nyende shares the history of black female comedians at Machine Project, Claire Falkenstein gets a retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, a documentary on LA graffiti culture debuts, and more.