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The Story Behind One of the Oldest Art Glass Studios in the US
In 124 years, Judson Studios has gone from designing windows for homes and churches to working with contemporary artists who are expanding the possibilities of glass.
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The Monumental Impact of a Judy Baca Mural in Los Angeles
“The work has become timely, but it has always been important,” said Baca of “The Great Wall of Los Angeles.”
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LA Forces Unhoused Residents From Echo Park, Leaving Behind Community Art Project and Garden
City councilman Mitch O’Farrell abruptly closed the park for renovations, displacing residents with little notice.
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How Artists Used the Discord App to Build Community During COVID-19
As more artists and arts organizations join the platform initially populated by gamers, they have capitalized on Discord’s potential for creation and play.
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Melvino Garretti on Making Art in Los Angeles Since the Days of the Watts Uprising
Melvino Garretti describes himself as “more of an anthropologist than an artist.”
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Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions
There’s a certain irony to the fact that Thompson, an artist who was so in-tune with the patterns of nature and the universe, posed such a fundamental challenge to mainstream art histories.
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Filmmakers Team Up With SF Public Defenders to Broadcast Stories of Injustice
Defender, which launched online this week, tells the stories that get buried in the news.
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How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
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Anna Torma’s Hand-Sewn Dreams
Inspired by children’s drawings, Hungarian folklore, and medieval legends, Torma’s playful, hand-sewn worlds are engrossing.
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“We Are Advocating for Us”: A New Book Centers BIPOC Artists and Educators
Jasmin Hernandez, author of We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, says her work is all about collective effort.
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A World-Famous Ancient Collection, on Display for the First Time, Awaits Visitors in Rome
The impressive exhibition undertaken by the Capitoline Museums and the Torlonia Foundation was 40 years in the making, and placed close to 100 marble sculptures from the storied Torlonia collection on view.