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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.”
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Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project
Bedford Gallery’s exhibition presents a photo-docuseries with nearly 100 photographs documenting Indigenous stories alongside sculptural works. On view in California’s Bay Area.
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Jewish Anti-Zionist Artists Withdraw From Contemporary Jewish Museum Show
The group asked for the ability to modify or remove their works and for the SF institution to divest from “Israeli governmental and pro-Zionist foundation funding.”
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Workers at a California Center for Artists With Disabilities Are Unionizing
Staff at Creative Growth in Oakland seek standardized pay, board participation, and a commitment to the campaign for the cultural boycott of Israel.
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As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure
Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis.
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California Legislators Push Law to Help Heirs Recover Looted Art
Assembly Bill 2867 was inspired by a recent ruling in the dispute over a Pissarro painting that was looted from a Jewish family during World War II.
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Major Collection of California Narrative Art Reopens in Orange County
The new Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University holds over 5,000 works that plumb the rich history of the Golden State.
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Mitchell Johnson Exhibits New Paintings From the Amalfi Coast
Inspired by an artist residency at the LeWitt Collection in Praiano, Johnson’s recent works are on view at Flea Street in Menlo Park, California.
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Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest
Unpretentious work by 17 Pacific Northwest artists blurs the line between functionality and aesthetics in this exhibition at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design.