Art
A Couple's Years-Long Mail Art Correspondence Leads to a Workshop
Over the past six years, artist David Horvitz has sent hundreds of pieces of mail art to his wife, the curator Zanna Gilbert, at the museums she's worked at.
Events
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A Movie Tells LA’s 237-Year-Old History
A new film explores the transformation and disruption of LA through interviews with writers, artists, and historians.
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A 1920s Polish Play Is Reimagined for the California Desert
A new play at CalArts sets Witkacy's The Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in the unending landscape of Death Valley.
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The Allure of US Interior Design in the 1930s
Marilyn F. Friedman will discuss her book Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s at Cooper Hewitt's Design Talk next week.
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Kellie Jones on the Rise of Performance Art in the 1970s
Jones discusses the role that performance played in the work of Latin American and African American artists.
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A Pop-up Reading of Black Poetry at the Brooklyn Museum
This weekend, the Brooklyn Museum will host a Pop-up Poetry event featuring readings by three Cave Canem fellows.
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Remembering Las Mariposas, the Sisters Who Resisted a Violent Dictatorship
The sisters formed a political group, the Movement of the Fourteenth of June, in opposition to the violent dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. They were assassinated in 1960.
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Constance White on the Influence of Black Style on Fashion Today
In conversation with museum director Valerie Steele, White will discuss various trendsetters, including Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, and Pharrell Williams.
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A Reconsideration of Power Structures in the Art Community
Anuradha Vikram, head curator at 18th Street Arts Center, talks about how the "lack of professional standards can undermine important cultural and social justice work."
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An Artist-Led Tour of Jennifer Wynne Reeves’s Deeply Personal Drawings
As part of the Drawing Center’s The Artist's Eye series, Essenhigh, along with artist and critic Matthew Weinstein, will take visitors through Reeves's exhibition next Tuesday.
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Andy Warhol's Friends Reminisce About the Artist at the Whitney Museum
This Friday, The Whitney will host a conversation with acquaintances of Andy Warhol on their personal experiences and interactions with the artist.
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From Monument to Commodity, Karl Marx in a Post-Cold War World
Two hundred years after Marx's birth, the Wende Museum and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles have organized a discussion on the significance of communist monuments today.