Art
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.
California
Art
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.
News
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Giveaways
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!
Art
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.
News
Activists Fool Media by Claiming Gas Company Would Pay California Fire Victims
Overwhelming evidence shows that gas and electric company PG&E is responsible for the fire that killed 86 people and cost an estimated $30 billion in damages.
Art
Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
In Brief
Dalí Foundation Sues Yet Another Dalí Museum, and the Outcome Is Unpredictable
The Dalí Foundation has their sights on the Monterey museum devoted to the Spanish Surrealist and unlike the case in Spain, which the foundation lost, this may be different.
News
Remembering Photographer Laura Aguilar’s Empathetic, Queer Art
Aguilar, the photographer who captured people's bodies with genuine empathy, died yesterday at the age of 59.