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Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer
Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees.
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Yolanda López, Whose Art Was a Call to Look at Chicana Women
In 1978, Yolanda López debuted a body of work whose imagery would reshape the visual language of Chicanx feminism.
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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life
Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.
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Cash-strapped San Francisco Art Institute Merges With Local University
After years of teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the institution will become part of the University of San Francisco.
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Enter the Universe of Black Womxn Artists in the Bay Area
The Black Woman Is God, an annual showcase of Black womxn visual artists, has become a staple of Black Bay Area culture.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for February 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Ulysses Jenkins, EJ Hill, Carlos Almaraz, and more.
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Forest Lawn, the Bucolic Cemetery With an Unusual Art Collection
A replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” sits in the Great Mausoleum, though in stained glass, and a full-scale replica of Michelangelo’s sculpture David stands outdoors in a plaza, although in bronze.
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New Folk Art Museum Celebrates the Rise of Craft During the Pandemic
Self-taught artists were invited to exhibit, and sell, their fuzzy stacks of pancakes and tasseled tapestries.
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The California Dream in the Prints of Frances Gearhart
Gearhart founded a print gallery with her sisters and was at the center of the Arts and Crafts movement in southern California.
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How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s
Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.
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The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick Opens at the Crocker Art Museum
An expansive exhibition on Adeliza McHugh’s influential Candy Store Gallery celebrates the whimsical, irreverent aesthetic that put California’s Sacramento Valley on the art-historical map.
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A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.