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Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
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Los Angeles + Architecture/Design
Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
by Mimi Zeiger
The Los Angeles Conservancy leads tours of Venice's more eclectic buildings to advocate for the preservation of historic L.A. structures.
Assembly Required: The Transformative Art of Noah Purifoy
From Mexican to American: Louis Hock's Decades of Documenting Immigrant Life
Who Makes Art About Climate Change?
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Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
Los Angeles + Multi-Disciplinary
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
by Michael Joyce
The writer meditates on Alexandra Grant's "Fôret Interieure/Interior Forest" and introduces an original work of fiction around the central theme of the exhibition, the "perfect other."
Hearing with the Whole Body: Alan Nakagawa's Reverberating Composition
Los Angeles + Music
Hearing with the Whole Body: Alan Nakagawa's Reverberating Composition
by Carren Jao
Alan Nakagawa creates experiences that tease out the sound lying dormant in normally "quiet" objects and deliver sound that gets under our skin.
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
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Riverside + Multi-Disciplinary
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
by Tyler Stallings
"Area 51: A Sound Installation" by Venzha Christ is a new site-specific, sound installation at UCR ARTSblock's Culver Center of the Arts.
Hearing with the Whole Body: Alan Nakagawa's Reverberating Composition
Who Makes Art About Climate Change?
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
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Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
Los Angeles + Performance
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
by AC Remler
Balanchine Festival 2013, hosted by the Los Angeles Ballet, celebrates the work of George Balanchine, one of the greatest choreographic masters of all time.
Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
Los Angeles + Architecture/Design
Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
by Mimi Zeiger
The Los Angeles Conservancy leads tours of Venice's more eclectic buildings to advocate for the preservation of historic L.A. structures.
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
Featured
Los Angeles + Performance
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
by AC Remler
Balanchine Festival 2013, hosted by the Los Angeles Ballet, celebrates the work of George Balanchine, one of the greatest choreographic masters of all time.
Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
Tidal Waves and Quiet: The Heavy Dynamics of Sleep Lady
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From FX to Fine Art: The Evolution of Special Effects Artists in the Digital Age
Los Angeles + Visual Arts
From FX to Fine Art: The Evolution of Special Effects Artists in the Digital Age
by Oliver Wang
Traditional visual effects specialists have shifted their creative focus from movies into other realms as pre-digital make-up and costuming decline.
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
Riverside + Multi-Disciplinary
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
by Tyler Stallings
"Area 51: A Sound Installation" by Venzha Christ is a new site-specific, sound installation at UCR ARTSblock's Culver Center of the Arts.
Barbara Parmet's Fine Art Photojournalism
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Santa Barbara + Film/Media Arts
Barbara Parmet's Fine Art Photojournalism
by Charles Donelan
In her photographic work, Barbara Parmet addresses the degree to which witnessing remains the fundamental constitutive human act.
Tidal Waves and Quiet: The Heavy Dynamics of Sleep Lady
Eclectic Revisited: Preserving Venice's Architectural Context
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
Featured
From FX to Fine Art: The Evolution of Special Effects Artists in the Digital Age
Los Angeles + Visual Arts
From FX to Fine Art: The Evolution of Special Effects Artists in the Digital Age
by Oliver Wang
Traditional visual effects specialists have shifted their creative focus from movies into other realms as pre-digital make-up and costuming decline.
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
Los Angeles + Performance
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
by AC Remler
Balanchine Festival 2013, hosted by the Los Angeles Ballet, celebrates the work of George Balanchine, one of the greatest choreographic masters of all time.
From the Heart of Highland Park: Double Naught Spy Car
Featured
Los Angeles + Music
From the Heart of Highland Park: Double Naught Spy Car
by Drew Tewksbury
Artbound caught up with guitarist Paul Lacques to chat about the band's SoCal sound and the culture that inspired it.
Catching the Incurable Contagion: Black Los Angeles' Disco Queers
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Los Angeles + Multi-Disciplinary
Catching the Incurable Contagion: Black Los Angeles' Disco Queers
by Kai Green
Disco music was a space of reconciliation for many black homosexuals who experienced the Christian church as a site of violence and alienation.
From FX to Fine Art: The Evolution of Special Effects Artists in the Digital Age
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
Passing the Balanchine Baton: LAB's Next Generation of Dancers
Featured
From the Heart of Highland Park: Double Naught Spy Car
Los Angeles + Music
From the Heart of Highland Park: Double Naught Spy Car
by Drew Tewksbury
Artbound caught up with guitarist Paul Lacques to chat about the band's SoCal sound and the culture that inspired it.
Barbara Parmet's Fine Art Photojournalism
Santa Barbara + Film/Media Arts
Barbara Parmet's Fine Art Photojournalism
by Charles Donelan
In her photographic work, Barbara Parmet addresses the degree to which witnessing remains the fundamental constitutive human act.
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From the Heart of Highland Park: Double Naught Spy Car
by Drew Tewksbury
Artbound caught up with guitarist Paul Lacques to chat about the band's SoCal sound and the culture that inspired it.

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Domestic Affairs: The Poetically Political Art of Nery Gabriel Lemus
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Domestic Affairs: The Poetically Political Art of Nery Gabriel Lemus
by Carren Jao
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Documenting Exodus: Hit Man Gurung and Nepal's Departing Youth
by Meher McArthur
Nepalese artist Hit Man Gurung's residency at 18th Street Arts Center offers a unique perspective on …
Santa Barbara + Performance
'Theater Heaven' Realized at the Pacific Conservatory of the Arts
by Sarah Linn
The Pacific Conservatory of the Arts is a professional resident theater company and a two-year vocat …
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De-silvering the Mirror: Mining for Film in the Owens Valley
by William L. Fox
It is a little-known fact that some of the silver and chemicals to produce the films that made Holly …

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Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
Riverside + Multi-Disciplinary
Venzha Christ and the Sounds of 'Area 51'
by Tyler Stallings
"Area 51: A Sound Installation" by Venzha Christ is a new site-specific, sound installation at UCR ARTSblock's Culver Center of the Arts.
In Partnership with:
UCR ARTSblock
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
Los Angeles + Multi-Disciplinary
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
by Michael Joyce
The writer meditates on Alexandra Grant's "Fôret Interieure/Interior Forest" and introduces an original work of fiction around the central theme of the exhibition, the "perfect other."
In Partnership with:
18th Street Arts Center
Assembly Required: The Transformative Art of Noah Purifoy
San Bernardino + Visual Arts
Assembly Required: The Transformative Art of Noah Purifoy
by Rubén Martínez
Noah Purifoy spent the final years of his life in Joshua Tree creating the monumental "Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Sculpture" made from tons of discarded materials.
In Partnership with:
BOOM Magazine
A Pop-Up Seminar on Feminism
Los Angeles + Cultural Politics
A Pop-Up Seminar on Feminism
by Robert Nashak
The Cixous Reading Group, a newly formed collaboration of Los Angeles-based artists and writers, is a kind of pop-up seminar, trying to reframe what it means to be a feminist today.
In Partnership with:
18th Street Arts Center

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Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
Los Angeles + Multi-Disciplinary
Hypertextualist Michael Joyce on Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous, and Carolyn Guyer
by Michael Joyce
The writer meditates on Alexandra Grant's "Fôret Interieure/Interior Forest" and introduces an original work of fiction around the central theme of the exhibition, the "perfect other."
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