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In SoCal, Artists Foster Roving, Alternative Spaces in Face of Change

Through its gathering of alternative spaces and roving exhibitions, Other Places Art Fair offers insight into how artists adapt to new conditions, whether it be by flat file, pool, or truck.

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Los Angeles Gallery Opens Show With Title Targeting Artist, Using Ableist Slur [UPDATED]

The Mathieu Malouf exhibition at Jenny's has also been perceived as antisemitic, targeting the artist Luke Turner.

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A Probing Look at How We Perform and Present the Self

Show Me As I Want to Be Seen resists imposed and idealized models of being by probing the self — the unstable, performative essence of humanity — and bringing it to life with art.

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Get Your Brief History of Chicano Studies in This Series of Workshops

In anticipation of an important center for Chicano art opening next year, the Riverside Art Museum is hosting Community Chicano Studies.

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A Goodbye to LA MOCA at the Pacific Design Center

MOCA PDC, which closed this month, deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.

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A Showcase of Hard-to-Categorize Art Projects in San Pedro

Over 40 artist-run spaces, experimental arts organizations, and independent galleries will set up shop in a decommissioned gun battery at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.

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After CalArts Announces Tuition Hike, Students Organize in Protest

On Tuesday morning, CalArts students organized outside of Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, where the Board of Trustees voted on the tuition for the next academic year, which will total $50,850.

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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers

Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.

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The Undiscussed Sexual Exploitation Buried in Matisse’s Odalisque Paintings

So ingrained is exploitation in our understanding of female sexuality within (and outside of) art history that incredibly basic readings recede into the background and are deemed somehow radical.

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The Studio Museum Conceives Its Future in a Traveling Exhibition

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem first brings highlights from the iconic New York institution's collection to the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

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Win Tickets to LA Phil's Celebration of Yoko Ono's Work and Music, March 22, 2019

We are giving away 5 pairs of tickets. Enter for your chance to win!

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The Land Art at Desert X Confronts Borders and Politics on Indigenous Territory

The second edition of Desert X is a manifesto for poetical activism, tangled between nature and urban development.