Art
Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology Aims to Recreate Islamic Spain in LA
The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.
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San Francisco Art Book Fair Is Back in July With Its Seventh Edition
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF boasts 145 exhibitors from around the world, more in-depth programming, and an expanded footprint.
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Artists Rally at Hammer Museum After Arrests at UCLA
Police thwarted efforts to build a new Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus earlier in the week.
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Mineo Mizuno Explores Earth’s Fragile Ecosystem in New Sculpture at The Huntington
Crafted from fallen timber the artist gathered in the Sierra Nevada forests, this site-specific work is set in the botanical gardens at the Los Angeles institution.
Art
Dalit Dreamlands Redraws a Map of the South Asian Diaspora
Curator Manu Kaur rooted the show, on view at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, in Dalit Guru Ravidas’s vision of a stateless, casteless, and classless society.
Art
UCI MFAs Challenge Institutional Display
The inquiries of three recent MFA graduates illuminate what much of the art world, easily seduced by decorative abstraction, misses.
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CalArts and Student Protesters Reach Agreement on Divestment
A student committee will work with the school to divest from funds linked to human rights violations following campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Art
The Alienated Aesthetics of USC’s Student Exhibition
Across multiple media, USC art students’ works paired meditations on discomfort, isolation, and technology with an impressive aesthetic rigor.
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Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveillance
Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly.
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After Mass Arrests, UCLA Faculty Protest at Hammer Museum Gala
As black luxury SUVs dropped off guests, faculty demanded the resignation of UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, a member of the Hammer’s board of directors.
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Outrage After Actor Chris Pratt Destroys Iconic Mid-Century Home in LA
Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion.”