Banhart’s first solo show in Los Angeles is at turns intimate and grandiose.
Rosa Boshier
Rosa Boshier is a writer whose work can be found in the Guardian, Literary Hub, the Washington Post, Vice, Bitch Media, the Rumpus, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and is finishing a novel on latinidad and London punk. Find her retweeting @Rosa Boshier
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‘‘We Paid For This Town”: The Legacy of Chicanx Punk in LA
In the 1970s and ’80s, the Bags, Vaginal Davis, Nervous Gender, and Los Illegals used music and performance to express their dissent of racism and gender violence, imagining punk as a possible utopia.
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Artist Encrusts Tijuana Police Cars With Glitter
Rubén Ortiz Torres gathered decommissioned patrol vehicles damaged in altercations with cartels and then bathed them in midnight blue and millennial pink.
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The Anonymous Women Who Embroidered the Cruel History of the Chilean Dictatorship
The arpilleras narrated the course of Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship through bold colors, broad stitching, and striking imagery, often incorporating fabrics from their disappeared children’s clothes.
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The Haunting Image of Home Amid Climate Change
In the face of natural disaster, artists question how the overwhelming anxiety of environmental degradation can be harnessed into creative action.