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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to see pioneering body-based video art from the 1990s, an artist builds an adobe structure at LACE, the #USC7 get their own show, and more.
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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Yoko Ono's 'Morning Peace' Turns Dawn into a Work of Art
LOS ANGELES — It was still dark when I set off on the uncrowded freeway, the few other people on the road either partiers coming home late or workers on their way to the early shift.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week there's a screening of a seldom-seen film directed by Neil Young, a photography show capturing Hollywood in the 1970s opens, 20 years of work from a "skeptical, queer, eco-feminist, androgyne" artist goes on view, and more.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a multimedia shadow play at a historic railway station, a poetry reading by a punk pioneer, a meditation walk in remembrance of those lost to AIDS, and much more.
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USC Art Alumni Issue Letter in Support of #USC7
LOS ANGELES — In response to the recent decision of the entire first-year USC MFA class to collectively withdraw from their program, a group of over 70 alumni of the Roski School of Art and Design has issued an open letter of support.
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In an LA Museum, the Master of Junk Dada Gets His Due
LOS ANGELES — Noah Purifoy could be considered something of a late bloomer. He was already in his thirties when he moved from his native Alabama to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art School (now CalArts).
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a sci-fi and German rock mash-up at 356 mission, Mark Bradford gets his first solo museum show in LA, an artist makes it rain at Tif Sigfrids, and more.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a contemporary apocalyptic opera, a collaboration with Afghan weavers, a film trilogy from a Mexico City-based artist, and more.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a survey of video art from Latin America, a retrospective of work by assemblage artist Noah Purifoy, the opening of a fetish figurine shop, and more.
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USC7 Respond to Roski School Dean as Faculty Weigh In
LOS ANGELES — The seven first-year MFA students who dropped out of the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design have issued a statement in response to last week's letter from Dean Erica Muhlo, rejecting her offer of a two-year leave of absence.
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Threatened LA Googie Landmark Is Saved
LOS ANGELES — Architectural preservationists won a major victory last week, when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to designate Norms La Cienega as a Historic-Cultural Monument.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a museum hosts an estate sale, Max Hooper Schneider mounts a semi-scientific installation, Clarissa Tossin traces connections between Brazil and the US, and more.