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.
Art
LOS ANGELES — “In the 1990s, after NAFTA, the border, and border art specifically, was viewed as a utopian thing, a hybrid of both cultures, the best of both worlds. A lot of the emblematic border art that we know now came from this school of thought, but anyone from Tijuana would know that these id
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This week, there are talks with Thomas Demand and Lorraine O'Grady, an art tour of Hollywood, a show of late work by Mr. Turner opens, and much more!
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LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to preview six experimental operas, East of Borneo's latest Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, seductive cinematic paintings by Judith Eisler, and much more.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, a show of Riot Grrrl art opens in Orange County, LACE throws a Valentine's Day party, Frank Lloyd Wright's first LA home reopens, there's a mini-conference on the limits of performance, and more!
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MEXICO CITY — As blue chip galleries courted international collectors at the city’s biggest art fair on the fringes of the tony neighborhood of Polanco, a smaller and more intimate fair opened on Thursday night across town.
News
MEXICO CITY — On the eve of this city’s biggest art fair, Zona MACO, the Museo Jumex quietly decided to cancel its upcoming Hermann Nitsch exhibition.
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MEXICO CITY — Zona MACO, Mexico City’s, and arguably Latin America’s, biggest art fair opened here Wednesday night at the massive Centro Banamex convention center on the outskirts of the city.
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This week, there's a retrospective of early work from an LA conceptual art pioneer, a talk on art and porn, an experimental performance in a private home, a French New Wave film with live harp soundtrack, and more!
Books
LOS ANGELES — They said it would never work. They said Angelenos aren’t interested in art books. Then, two years ago, they were proven wrong.
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There's a fire sale of Larry Clark photos, a performance by legendary experimental rocker Kim Gordon's new group, the beginning of a year-long celebration of Armenian culture, and so much more!
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This week, there are performances from the Wooster Group and Heidi Duckler Dance Theater, the opening of new gallery Vacancy, a survey of 30 years of activism from the art world's conscience, the Guerrilla Girls, and more!
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LOS ANGELES — Photography is a schizophrenic medium. It has long served documentary, fashion, and scientific purposes, only more recently has it gained mainstream recognition as a fine art. These dichotomies carry over to the Photo LA fair.