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 — 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.
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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.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, performance artists Dynasty Handbag and Jaimie Warren get weird at El Cid, the Craft & Folk Art Museum hosts a workshop on painting on black velvet, the Museum of Contemporary Art brings music to its galleries, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, a multi-venue screening of the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman begins, a Marilyn Minter retrospective opens, artist Paul Ramirez Jonas invites you to make a promise, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, the Cat Art Show returns to LA, Machine Project transforms into an adult movie theater for 24 hours, a video work exploring Michelangelo's two funerals screens, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, a double-venue Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective opens, curator Selene Preciado discusses the role of the female pachuca in José Montoya's work, REDCAT hosts a two-day symposium on Immigration and Art, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the local outpost of mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, will open its massive hybrid art space to the public on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, the Gallery Tally Project illustrates gender inequality in the art world, the long-awaited Hauser Wirth & Schimmel art complex opens, a show of Joan Brown's 1970s paintings debuts at CB1-G, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, Yung Jake premieres his sweaty new video, the fifth annual LA Zine Fest opens, Machine Project hosts an evening of alien abduction presentations, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, European Gallery Sprüth Magers opens an LA outpost, Emma Sulkowicz gets her first solo show at Coagula, it's the last chance to see Sandow Birk's American Qur'an at the Orange County Museum of Art, and more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition on influential art school Black Mountain College opens at the Hammer Museum, Last Projects opens a group show of beautiful failures, James Welling's hyper-saturated photographs come to Regen Projects, and more.