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After 15 Years, LA's Machine Project Closes with a Farewell Event
The contemporary art space announced last week that it will soon be closing, but not before throwing a farewell party and print sale this Saturday.
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Mixing Camp and Classical Myth in a Play About War and Repression
Sorry, Atlantis: Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge fuses classical mythology, slapstick comedy, and 1930s cartoons to tell a timely story about war, race, power, and sexual repression.
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13 Performances Reimagine Mexican Rituals on Echo Park Lake
Fiesta Perpetua! on May 20 will feature performances by Carmina Escobar, Japanese Butoh dancer Oguri, and LA-based Oaxacan youth brass bands.
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An Artist Describes the Apocalypse According to Busta Rhymes
Aria Dean's upcoming lecture at Machine Project, "Busta Rhymes at the End of the World," will focus on apocalyptic themes in the rapper's oeuvre.
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Asher Hartman and the Puppets of Revolution
LOS ANGELES — Asher Hartman’s experimental Purple Electric Play! utilizes an eclectic range of dramatic forms including rock opera, puppets shows, vaudeville, and black light theater.
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A Well-Oiled Machine Project
LOS ANGELES — Machine Project's mission is simply the creation of new structures and spaces for presenting creativity in its many manifestations.
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Art and Science Get Intimate
A lot has changed since novelist and physicist C.P. Snow’s assertion in the 1960s that Western intellectual life was split between two irreconcilable cultures: the arts and the sciences. Around that time, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was just beginning its efforts to bridge those two s
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Smashing the 80s Away
LOS ANGELES — We all want to be rid of certain things. Prized possessions that have fallen out favor. Mementos of love lost and embarrassing youths. But it's hard to part with what we own. D3: Object Divestment Services aims to assuage this need to leave the past behind us