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Christopher Michno

Christopher Michno

Christopher Michno writes about the visual arts, and is an editor for Artillery, a bimonthly contemporary art magazine, and DoppelHouse Press, a Los Angeles-based publisher of books on art and architecture. His work has also appeared in the LA Weekly, ICON Italy, and other publications.

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Tomas McGovern, "Untitled," 2008-2012, from the series "People in Cars"  | Courtesy of the artist In the Sunshine of Neglect
“In the Sunshine of Neglect," a double venue exhibition, exposes the many layers of life in a vast area of contiguous valleys nestled below the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains: Inland Southern California.
From left to right: DJ Bean from Aztlan Underground, Lupe, Yaotl from Aztlan Underground, Jose Maldonado, and Edgar Toledo at The Farce of July, 1999 | Courtesy of Edgar Toledo and Emily Martinez
It was 1996, and big media was swallowing up smaller stations in L.A., leaving little room for Latinx voices. It was into this barren media-scape that the pirate radio station Radio Clandestina emerged.
Motherboy performance at studio of Zaid Yousef | Courtesy of Motherboy
The ambient art rock band Motherboy is only loosely a rock band. The trio's sets are a multimodal interplay of ambient music, video and performance.
Kristofferson San Pablo Install | Boys of Summer
Boys of Summer, an art collective with origins in the Inland Empire, is one of the few in the Los Angeles area that addresses the experience of living in the area.
Gregory Michael Hernandez, "Decalogue Chapel"
The Mojave Desert Land Trust has launched ecological guidelines and curriculum for artists looking to create art in the desert.
Thatcher Music Building in Pomona College
Pomona College has intentions to tear down a modestly scaled Brutalist building. The planned demolition prompts questions about the preservation of cultural resources.
"Transit Across" by Joe Zaldivar and Ramak Fazel (featured)
At First Street Gallery Art Center, individuals with developmental disabilities have found their voice through art-making.
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, 2015. | Photo: Heather Johnson.
Heather Johnson leads a nomadic life. Aboard her motorcycle, the artist makes cross-country trips, leaving art along her path.
Fred Harvey Indian Tours | Photo courtesy of Library of Congress
Route 66 has been mythologized in popular culture since it was established as a national highway in 1926. Two new projects re-contextualize the road for the 21st century.
Mark Dion, "Field Station," 2015.
Can art exhibitions and collections unravel dominant cultural narratives? Curator Ciara Ennis believes so, and she's committed to challenging authoritative societal systems through her work.
Charles Long, "Catalin," 2014. Installation view, The Contemporary Austin -- Jones Center, Austin. | Photo: Ben Aqua, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
Charles Long's engaging sculptures often require the viewer to feel, smell, and plug-in to get a full experience.
Devon Tsuno, "Invasive Horticulture (Los Angeles River)," 2015. | Photo: Courtesy of the UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts.
At exhibition "Second Wave," artists who were born and raised in the 1980s look to MTV, Saturday morning cartoons, and technology as influences.
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