California

In Brief

Verdict in Oakland Ghost Ship Fire Trial Angers Victim Families

Almost three years after a fire at the Oakland DIY art space killed 36 people, jurors acquitted the space's creative director of involuntary manslaughter but remained hung on the case of the warehouse’s master tenant.

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California Landscapes, Millenial Pink, and Lots of Painting at the Other Art Fair

Catering to “a new generation of art buyers,” most of the artwork at the Santa Monica fair sells for under $1,000.

Announcement

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents The Body Electric

The West Coast debut of this exhibition by an intergenerational and international group of artists explores technology's impact on our collective understanding of the body and sense of self. On view through January 26, 2020.

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Looking at the Legacy of Jess in California

An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art positions the artist known as Jess as the center of a creative nexus, bringing together his works with a smattering of California artists.

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When Communal Dining Transforms Into Cultural Exchange and Debate

More than a culinary celebration, this event will focus on how the dishes being consumed are tied to themes of colonization, appropriation, and resistance.

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A Public Performance in Hollywood Will Celebrate Intersectional Gender Identities

Along a two-block stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, over 35 artists, performers, and collectives will turn the sidewalk into a stage for performance art, dance, music, comedy, and even karaoke.

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Rubens’s Exciting, Upsetting, and Shockingly Current Paintings

Much of Rubens’s Baroque bravura feels timely in its grappling with violence, terror, power, sex, and coercion.

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Museum Hosts Afrofuturist Block Party to Honor Artist Timothy Washington

The California African American Museum is hosting a weekend of workshops and more in Leimert Park.

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Unseen, an Audio Comic Especially Designed for the Blind

The protagonist of Unseen, like its creator, is blind. The characters she fights often underestimate her because of her disability — and that’s a big mistake.

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Pushing the Limits of Ambient Music in a Historic Church

The Steve Roach concert is part of Ambient Church, a roving programming series that places experimental audio and visual performances within unique architectural environments.

Announcement

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Presents an Artistic, Performance-Filled Roller Rink

This installation actions vent ascending frequencies from creative collective assume vivid astro, features outdoor roller-skating, DJ sets, and special programming from September 13–October 6, 2019.

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The Spurious Progressivism of Spanish Colonial Art

Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain’s golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire’s art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.