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A Crowd-Sourced Sound Map for the Protests of Our Time
Almost 200 recordings of international protests are now archived in an online sound map that spans over two decades.
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Alexander Girard, the Designer Who Made American Modernism Less Sterile
In Girard's fantastic retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum, we see how he mitigated the starkness of American Modernism with bold color, earthy materials, and folk art aesthetics.
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How to Embed a Shout: A New Generation of Black Artists Contends with Abstraction
A new wave of black abstract artists are exploring ways to push the language of abstraction and still retaining their cultural specificity. And they're not doing it alone.
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Six Dancers Make Ephemeral Marks on Rockaway Beach
In a work choreographed by Madeline Hollander, six dancers and a truck will chase each other on the beach on August 26.
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A Mythical Memoir of Pre-1900 LA Turned into Theater
The Rogue Artists Ensemble is celebrating the 1942 book Señor Plummer: The Life and Laughter of an Old-Californian with a new performance from August 24 to 26.
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The Dance Floor as a Site for Queer Memorials
This Friday at Recess, Brendan Fernandes will explore the possibilities of the dance floor as a queer space.
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A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths
A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.
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A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia's data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.
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Women of Color Find Their Rightful Place in the History of American Abstraction
According to the Kemper Museum, Magnetic Fields is the first museum exhibit in the US to show abstract artwork created exclusively by women of color.
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A Designer's Game About Arranged Marriages, Inspired by Her Own Journey
In Nashra Balagamwala's board game, players are teenage girls pursued by an aunty who wants to marry them to any boy she can locate.
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A Pop-Up Museum Devoted to O.J. Simpson
Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.
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A Concert of Protest Songs at LA Louver
On Wednesday, August 23, poet, songwriter, and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen Kalinich will read his own poetry and perform with the Los Angeles-based collective Divinity Band.