Art
Discover the Origins of LA’s Oldest Children’s Theater Company
From May 28 to August 3, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be in residence at Oxy Arts on York, a brand-new community-based arts space established by Occidental College.
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The Designer Who Wanted to Liberate People from Gendered Clothing
Looking back on the work and philosophy of Rudi Gernreich, who broke norms and made waves in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Play-Testing a New Card Game for Radical World Building
The Afrofuturist Podcast is inviting a game designer to unveil his custom-designed deck of cards, which will prompt and inspire the audience to imagine diverse scenarios.
In Brief
MOCA Los Angeles to Implement a Free Admission Policy
The shift will be funded with a $10 million donation from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Clark Powers, who says: "Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.”
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A Nonjudgmental Look at Our Impulse to Share Images
Although social media has amped up the sharing of photos, the urge behind it is nothing new.
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JR, Shepard Fairey, and Other Muralists Collaborate with LA High Schoolers
In addition to their input, students were invited to assist local and international artists in completing the murals, as well as serve as subject matter in some cases.
Performance
A Factory that Processes Your Dandelion Wishes
The anonymous art collective simply known as the Art Department transformed a decommissioned building into “a secret wish-processing facility.”
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CalArts Students Collaborate with Cooper Union Alumni in Their Fight Against Rising Tuition
After CalArts announced a tuition hike in March, students have been participating in a much bigger conversation around the transparency and values of arts institutions.
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When Barbara T. Smith Traveled the World, Casting Herself as Modern-Day Odysseus
A documentary on "The 21st Century Odyssey" offers an in-depth look at this pioneering work of technologically aided human connection.
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A Six-Hour Performance Centered on One Kiss
Vanessa German and her partner, Janae Brown, present an intimate exchange between Black women, a perspective absent in mainstream depictions of African-American femininity.
News
Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco
Carlie Wilmans, founder of the arts nonprofit 500 Capp Street Foundation, has come under fire after starting proceedings to evict a family from a duplex she owns in the Mission District.
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Santa Fe Through the Eyes of a Minnesota Chippewa Artist
Modern art history, popular culture, and Indigenous people commingle in David Bradley’s imagination of the Southwest in idiosyncratic ways.