The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
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An Artist Who Grew Up in Boyle Heights Navigates the Fight Over Gentrification
This exclusive new short documentary considers the less discussed and more personal perspective of what it’s like to be an artist from Boyle Heights.
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An Artists’ Guide to Not Being Complicit with Gentrification
We write this in hopes that more artists will finally break with their sense of exceptionalism and consider the roles they play in the gentrification process.
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LA Artists and Activists Clash at a Political Action Meeting in Boyle Heights
When the Artists’ Political Action Network held its first public meeting, it was met by protesters from the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement.
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Boyle Heights Art Space Closes, Blaming Anti-Gentrification Activists
After months of protests, a Boyle Heights art nonprofit has decided to leave the contested neighborhood that activists say is being gentrified with the help of the art community.
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How to Draw a (Picket) Line: Activists Protest Event at Boyle Heights Gallery
A meeting of the Artists’ Political Action Network failed to take into account its location in a neighborhood that’s been mired in gentrification controversy for quite some time.
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Boyle Heights Activists Question LAPD’s Hate Crime Charge
After the words “Fuck White Art” were anonymously spray-painted on the roll-up gate of Nicodim Gallery, the LAPD said it would treat the act of vandalism as a hate crime.
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Considering Community as Art Galleries Help Gentrify Harlem
A new wave of art galleries are starting to move up uptown from Chelsea and lower Manhattan, and it is time to ask serious questions about their impact and what we can do to guarantee Harlem survives culturally.
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Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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Anti-Gentrification Activists Show Concern When Two Art Spaces Open in LA’s Boyle Heights [UPDATED]
LOS ANGELES — The burgeoning gallery district east of the LA River is about to get a bit more crowded.
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Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA’s Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.