Announcement
Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble on View at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Through September 15
This multimedia installation by sound and performance artist Chris Kallmyer centers around a sculptural communal instrument.
California
News
A San Francisco Art Nonprofit Is Trying to Save Its Building From Developers
The Lab, a veteran experimental art space, is raising money to buy the historical Redstone Labor Temple in the city's trendy Mission District before it's turned into corporate offices.
Opinion
Rethinking the "Bigger Is Better" Museum Model
Current museum expansions are hung up on the concept of size. Instead, could we rethink the “grow or die” museum mentality of the 1990s and 2000s?
Art
Sadie Barnette's Homage to Her Father and the First Black-Owned Gay Bar in San Francisco
Sadie Barnette mines memories to turn them into glittering, physical spaces. Her latest installation, The New Eagle Creek Saloon, is a recreation of the gay bar her father ran in the early '90s.
Art
A Golden Opportunity to See the Los Angeles Arts Community on Display
The ninth annual LA Design Festival will feature talks, installations, exhibitions, and events hailing the city's legacy in architecture, fashion, graphics, industrial design, and other disciplines.
Art
Conjoined Costumes and “Antler-Locked Combat” Reflect the Fashion of the '70s
The Skirball Cultural Center in LA will host a performance of choreographer Bella Lewitzky’s 1976 dance piece Inscape as part of the exhibition Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich.
Announcement
Constance Hockaday and Cate White Embrace Vulnerability, Anxiety as Strategies for Survival
Work they developed for the 2019 Art+Process+Ideas artist residency program is on view from June 23 - September 1 at Mills College Art Museum.
Art
The Divine Light of Josef Strau
Strau's collage-paintings merge the word and the light, while positing the shared slipperiness of language and faith.
Art
A Radio Play Performance Unpacks the Way We Anticipate Global Crises
York Chang and Daniel R. Small's "The Map Is the Territory" will discuss the implications of the government using A.I. to predict world events.
Art
The Every Woman Biennial Defies Critical Evaluation
The salon-style biennial, featuring over 600 women and non-binary artists, is neither hierarchical nor overly precious.
Art
A Day-Long Celebration of Intersectional Punk Rock
Los Angeles's A Right to Defiance festival will feature performances, panels, and workshops that refute the notion that punk rock is a straight White man's genre.
Art
Dreamlike Projections Hidden in an Alleyway
Artists will bring shadow puppetry, magic lantern animations, peepshows, and more to LA's Chinatown for Dissolving Sights II, the opening of Peephole Cinema.