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Printed Matter Window Display Divides Audiences on Israel-Palestine
The installation banner included a Reuters photograph of bulldozers breaking down the border fence on October 7.
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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Contemporary Artists Breathe New Life Into a Historic California Mansion
The John Rowland Mansion is now open to the public with site-specific contemporary artworks centering access and found materials.
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This Museum Wants to Reignite Performance Art in Los Angeles
“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez.
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This July
This month: Gordon Parks’s iconic photographs, Wendy Red Star’s Indigenous abstractions, Chiffon Thomas’s unsettling mixed media sculptures, a celebration of Juxtapoz Magazine, and more.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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With a New Home and a New Name, LAXART Returns as “The Brick”
The LA arts nonprofit is marking a new chapter in its 20-year history.
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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
The art scene has something for everyone this season, from Kwame Brathwaite and mural collective East Los Streetscapers to Simone Leigh and Zapotec textile art.
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10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This June
Keith Mayerson’s two-decade ode to the city, Tony Cragg’s organic sculptures, Esteban Cabeza de Baca on a familial legacy of protest, and much more.
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With the Help of Students, Street Artists Transform an LA High School
Well-known names and veteran muralists with deep ties to local communities were tapped for the project at César E. Chávez Learning Academies in San Fernando.
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CalArts and Student Protesters Reach Agreement on Divestment
A student committee will work with the school to divest from funds linked to human rights violations following campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Across LA Schools, Art Students and Faculty Rally for Palestine
Amid aggressive escalations at UCLA and arrests at USC, protesters are invoking the artistic legacy of radical activism.