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Los Angeles Wildfire Threatens Getty Museum [UPDATED]
The Skirball fire has consumed over 150 acres and is burning "directly across the freeway" from the Getty Museum, according to a spokesperson.
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Art
A Gallery in a Truck Fuels Up on Anti-Patriarchal Art
The inaugural exhibition at Gas, a new Los Angeles gallery located in a box truck, offers a range of routes for making anti-fascist art.
Art
Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
Announcement
Win a Trip to LA to Explore Art and Technology at the Engadget Experience
Win a trip to Los Angeles to experience a one-day-only event that will bring together some of the brightest minds in art, entertainment, and technology.
History
The Histories Erased by a Monument to the Los Angeles Aqueduct
A fountain dedicated to Frank Putnam Flint, the senator who devised the aqueduct supplying LA's water, makes no mention of the human cost of the project.
Art
Friedrich Kunath Plays With Scent, Sense, and Sentiment
Friedrich Kunath's latest exhibition is fragrant with nostalgia, melancholy, and whimsy.
Performance
Black Queer Artists Explore the In-Between
At LA's Main Museum, an evening of multimedia performance including hip-hop, poetry, and readings looked at the intersections between queerness and blackness.
Art
A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Channels the Pain of LA's 1992 Uprising
On Tuesday at the California African American Museum, artist Patrisse Khan-Cullors performed a funerary procession for those lost in the violence 25 years ago, invoking the entire history of systemic violence in the US.
Art
A Pop-Up Museum Devoted to O.J. Simpson
Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.
Art
Surreal Arrangements of Bare Limbs and Suggestive Fruit
In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
Art
The Stories of Asian American Activism in 1970s LA
The Chinese American Museum’s exhibition Roots uses books, posters, films, and music to examine the politicization of Asian Americans.
Art
From Flash Tattoos to a Fotomat Shack, Looking Beyond Books at the LA Art Book Fair 2017
At Printed Matter’s annual event, some of the highlights were objects that expanded upon the idea of what books can provide: an affordable means to experience and collect art.