Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.”
Made in LA
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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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Kahlil Joseph’s News Channel Revels in Black History and Experience
Joseph’s project is installed in various Black-owned small businesses throughout Los Angeles, from a barbershop to a medical clinic.
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An Artist Asserts Control Over the Commodification of Her Work
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.
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Resolutely Political LA Artists Focus on the Body in the City’s Latest Biennial
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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The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA
LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to be an LA artist? This is the question that curators Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker came up against when organizing the Hammer Museum’s third Los Angeles Biennial, Made in LA 2016.
