Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video greets us with the dizziness befitting a period of rapid economic growth and social change.
Hammer Museum
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LA’s Hammer Museum Wants to Be Seen
After two decades of renovations, the museum that calls itself a “well-kept secret” reopens with a mission to be more visible.
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Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.
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A More Expansive Understanding of What It Means to Be Human
N.I.H., short for No Humans Involved, was an acronym used by the LAPD to refer to “young Black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner-city ghettos.”
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Three Playful, Inventive Films Streaming as Part of Made in LA
Through June 30, you can screen films by Alima Lee, Fox Maxy, and Maia Ruth Lee.
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An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts
Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.”
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“Made in LA” Mines the Necessary Performance of Everyday Life
Performance has always been essential as a means of survival to participate in the fiction of America.
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Boogie With Patrisse Cullors in a Virtual Electric Slide
On Sunday April 11, Patrisse Cullors will be restaging “F*ck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free” online for a global audience.
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In Upcoming Talk, rafa esparza Opens Up About His Collaborative Art
This Thursday, November 19, esparza will deliver a special lecture at the Hammer Museum.
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LA Museums Continue Construction and Expansion Projects, Despite Pandemic
In California, all construction — including museum expansions — has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other museums are prompting both questions and criticisms.
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Andrea Fraser Puts Male Feminism on the Line
In her performance, Fraser plays the role of male feminists, both empathizing with them and exposing their failure to empathize with the goals of the Women’s Movement.
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Why Splattering Eggs on a Museum’s Walls with Other Women Was So Satisfying
Sarah Lucas’s performance at the Hammer Museum was satisfying, liberating even. Women are not supposed to express anger, and we sure as hell aren’t supposed to make a mess.
