News
SFMOMA Announces Second Wave of Layoffs, Impacting 55 Additional Workers
This follows March’s announcement that the museum would lay off 131 on-call (contracted or freelance) employees and furlough around 200 regular staffers.
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Art
An Urgent Performance From Patrisse Cullors, a Founder of Black Lives Matter
Cullors’s “public act of mourning” is the inaugural event of Pride at the Fowler Museum.
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Meet LA’s Art Community: Hailey Loman Is Building an Oral History Collection
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
Art
Ann Greene Kelly Estranges the Familiar
In Kelly’s sculptures, manmade objects morph into new or composite forms that seem to verge on organic.
News
A New iOS Shortcut Blurs Faces and Wipes Metadata for Protest Images
The solution, innovated by software developer Noah Conk and a cohort of anonymous programmers, allows iPhone photographs to be published without revealing information about when and where they were taken.
Art
How Do We “Rehearse Care”? Artists, Activists, and Writers Model New Approaches
The first session of Gas Gallery’s Care Practice: Recipes for Resilience will take inspiration from Audre Lorde to consider “how we can each better use our influence and voice.”
News
Paul Mpagi Sepuya Offers Photographs to Advocacy Organization Donors
Sepuya is directing people to organizations like National Bail Out and #BlackLivesMatter-Los Angeles. Anyone who provides receipt for a donation of $250 and upwards will receive a print by the photographer.
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SFMOMA Accused of Censoring Black Voices After Removing Comment by Former Employee
Taylor Brandon commented under the museum’s Instagram post in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and said, “Having black people on your homepage/feed is not enough.” Artists and SFMOMA employees have spoken out in agreement.
Art
As ACLU SoCal’s First Artist in Residence, Audrey Chan Emphasizes Immigration Rights
Chan has worked on the ICE Not Welcome campaign and a series of interviews with recently released persons during the pandemic.
Art
AIDS Memorial Quilt Volunteers Repurpose Fabric to Sew Masks for Essential Workers
Gert McMullin, one of the founders of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, has been using fabric from the historic quilt to create protective masks for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art
120 Artists Create a “Drive-by-Art” Exhibition Throughout Los Angeles
The exhibition includes both well-known and emerging artists and reaches across LA County’s varied neighborhoods.
Art
A Look at LA’s Chinatown, Past and Present
Michelle Sui’s film Street Angel wanders through the streets of Chinatown, spotlighting the stories of elderly immigrant residents.