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An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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This Artist Honors Long Beach Landmarks in Clay
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In the face of rapid change, Long Beach ceramicist Chris Suarez honors his hometown in clay.
Basquiat 'King Pleasure' Exhibition Comes to L.A.
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Basquiat's "King Pleasure" exhibit comes to L.A. — a city that once fueled his creativity.
Paper Fashion Honors 50 Years of Self Help Graphics
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Self Help Graphics celebrates its 50-year legacy at the Paper Fashion Gala biennial.
A pile of shipping containers arranged to look like a cubist rendition of a sleeping figure lays in the middle of a desert landscape with a large snowcapped mountain behind it. She sleeping figure is laying on its side, propping its sleeping head up with its elbow and crossing its legs. The container that is meant to be the figure's head has two closed eyes and a smile painted on its surface. Behind the sculpture is a railroad track where actual shipping containers move across the landscape via train.
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Matt Johnson's "Sleeping Figure" at Desert X 2023 comments on a supply chain in distress.
Desert X 2023: Lauren Bon's 'Smallest Sea With the Largest Heart,' - Credit Lance Gerber
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Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio's "The Smallest Sea With the Largest Heart" at Desert X 2023.
Nuns and Social Justice Come Together in This Installation
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Lexa Walsh's "Sisters InfoShop" reveals the activist legacy of a group of a nuns.
Who is American? These Quilts Seek Answers to the Question
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"Fabric of a Nation" at the Skirball highlights the complexity of the American experience.
 One of many windows with views into the Orange County Museum of Art designed by Morphosis Architects.
Founded in 1962 as Balboa Pavilion Gallery, the Orange County Museum of Art now finds itself starting a new chapter with a new building and five inaugural exhibitions on deck. Here's the lowdown on the celebratory events.
A First Look at the Orange County Museum of Art
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The Orange County Museum of Art reopens to the public with five exhibitions.
A collection of "Love and Rockets" comic books in boxes.
"Love & Rockets" is celebrating its 40th anniversary, but it began with a trio of brothers from Oxnard.
An older man points out of the camera while leaning close to a younger man. They both have eyeglasses on.
In the fall of 1963, the bucolic, tradition-bound city of Pasadena became unlikely host to the most radical artist of the 20th century: Marcel Duchamp.
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"Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)" will take visitors on a journey through Eversley's practice, zooming in on his explorations of material and color via his trove of parabolic lenses.
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