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Mayan Codex, Americas' Oldest Surviving Book, Goes on View in LA
Dating to circa 1100 AD, the Mayan Codex is said to have been painted by a single artist, recording the movements of planet Venus over the course of 584 days.
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Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
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LA’s New Metro Line Opens With 14 Public Artworks
Kenturah Davis, Mickalene Thomas, and Shinique Smith are among the artists who created work for the K Line, which connects historical centers of Black American life and culture in LA.
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Prepare Yourself for LA's First Keith Haring Museum Show
Art is for Everybody at the Broad Museum will focus on the artist's life and activism.
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Can a Ballot Measure Save Arts Education in California?
If approved, Proposition 28 could increase funding for performance and visual arts education by as much as $1 billion.
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Norton Simon Museum Presents Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography
This exhibition in Pasadena, California, features works on paper by Ruth Asawa, Gego, Eleanore Mikus, Louise Nevelson, Irene Siegel, and Hedda Sterne.
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The Happily Haunted Cinema of Guy Maddin
The twilight state between dreaming and waking that permeates a restoration of Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital echoes that of life and death in his films.
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The Thriving Art Community of San Diego
Beyond the big headlines, the city's contemporary art scene is rooted in its diverse, community-centered art spaces.
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Processing the Trauma of Wildfires Through Art
Fire Transforms at the Palo Alto Art Center convenes artists to commemorate loss, survival, and growth in light of climate change’s exponential severity.
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The Unexpected Detours of Marshall Brown's Architectural Collages
By disrupting the reality of his images Brown's collages lead to surprises.
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Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language
The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock's World-Building Power
The works, and worlds, on display in Hancock's exhibition seem saturated with a desire for narrative redemption through self-observation and aspects of his Christian upbringing.