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MOCA Los Angeles to Implement a Free Admission Policy

by Hakim Bishara May 20, 2019November 20, 2019

The shift will be funded with a $10 million donation from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Clark Powers, who says: “Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.”

Posted inArt

Allen Ruppersberg, a Conceptual Artist in Love with the Physical World

by Matt Stromberg March 27, 2019March 28, 2019

Ruppersberg, who has lived between Los Angeles and New York since the 1960s, pushes the ordinary toward the extraordinary in wildly divergent works.

Posted inArt

Considering Adrian Piper’s Art Alongside 50 Years of Social Change

by Matt Stromberg October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Hammer Museum hosts a day-long symposium on Piper’s vital work.

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An Artist Asserts Control Over the Commodification of Her Work

Avatar photo by Daniel Gerwin August 2, 2018August 1, 2018

Carmen Argote’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council suggests that she has no money left after participating in Made in LA, displaying work that resists any potential role as pricey art objects.

Posted inArt

Resolutely Political LA Artists Focus on the Body in the City’s Latest Biennial

by Matt Stromberg June 4, 2018

The body is at the center of much of the work in Made in LA, and overwhelmingly, that body is brown and black, female, queer, and indigenous.

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Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, and Charles Atlas Dissect Modernity

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 7, 2018

The Hammer Museum has displayed the three video installations together for the first time.

Posted inArt

When Contemporary Art Feels Too Inaccessible

by Ksenya Gurshtein May 2, 2018May 10, 2018

Some artists seem to negate any attempt at communication with the viewer, and pass on the inconvenient responsibility of generating some coherent meaning to curators.

A scene from Solange's "Metatronia (Metatron's Cube)" (2018)
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Solange Unveils Performance Art Piece at the Hammer Museum

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

The performance was staged on a LeWittian large-scale sculpture by Solange that will travel around the US this summer.

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Two Evenings of Stan Brakhage’s Disorienting, Collage-Like Films

by Matt Stromberg April 9, 2018

In honor of the new edition of Brakhage’s 1963 book Metaphors of Vision, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Los Angeles Filmforum are screening some of his most seminal films.

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The Politics of Sound in a Prison

by Michael Valinsky March 17, 2018March 16, 2018

Lawrence Abu Hamdan attempts to reconstruct the psycho-physical conditions in which prisoners lived at Syria’s Saydnaya prison by using recorded testimonials.

Posted inArt

Four Los Angeles Shows to Look Forward to in the New Year

by Matt Stromberg December 27, 2017December 27, 2017

From an exhibition about the first superstar curator to Pacific Standard Time’s performance festival, there’s strong work aplenty on the horizon.

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Five Outstanding Shows Closing in Los Angeles This Month

by Matt Stromberg December 20, 2017

From local contemporary art to rare surveys on Latin American modernism, there is plenty of good art to see before the new year.

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