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UCR ARTS Presents Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025
The first full survey of the Southern California photographer’s four-decade career is opening this fall at UCR ARTS in downtown Riverside.
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Preserving Ernie Barnes’s Legacy in Paint Tubes
The late artist and athlete who rendered joyous scenes of Black life, dance, and motion is the subject of renewed institutional attention as his daughter, Erin Barnes, works to conserve his studio practice.
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LA’s Lucas Museum Displays “Narrative Art” for the Few, Not the People
Friction, dissonance, and multiplicity are overall avoided in favor of superficial unity and a flattening of difference at George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's new institution.
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Artists Commit to the Bit at This Year’s Vulva Gala
Over two dozen artists from the LA area were given homemade costumes to decorate as they pleased as part of the School of Sexuality Project’s community-centered celebration.
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San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers
The cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties.
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California Exhibition to Document One of the US’s Worst Deportation Campaigns
“Help Wanted / Leave Now” traces the infamous “Operation Wetback” implemented by Eisenhower in 1954 to expel undocumented Mexican workers.
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A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight
"The Stolen Dove" is a participatory project that turns a decades-old monument into an artwork to keep the scholar and civil rights leader’s memory alive.
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Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality
In their latest film, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens advocate replacing an exploitative relationship with the Earth with one based on intimacy, care, and pleasure.
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Health, Technology, Art, and Design Intersect at UC Davis Graduate Showcase
On view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 20, the multidisciplinary exhibition features projects by 20 arts graduate students.
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Unofficial Iraqi Pavilion Pops Up in Venice, but Not That One
Ali Eyal and David Horvitz satirize America’s oil war in an installation at a Chevron gas station on Venice Boulevard.
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CalArts President Booed During Commencement Speech
Students held signs protesting staff layoffs at the esteemed Southern California art school as Ravi S. Rajan took the stage.
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Getting Messy in the Archive at LA’s Art Book Fair
This year’s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance.