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Visual Arts
Artbound
How Light and Space Art Can Help Us See Differently
Post date:Light and Space artists have captured, investigated and metamorphosed light into unexpected artwork that implores us to look — really look.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
World's Smallest Contemporary Museum Journeys to L.A.
Post date:Take a look inside Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (or NuMu, for short) and hear from its founders as they recreate the museum in Guatemala and take their concept on the road to Los Angeles.
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film and media arts
Artbound
What It's Like Inside Iñárritu's VR Experience 'Carne y Arena'
Post date:"Carne y Arena" is an immersive installation from Academy Award-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu that puts the viewer in a story about human bodies crammed into vehicles and transported across borders — journeys with no guarantees of a safe arrival.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Guatemala's Only Contemporary Art Museum is a Rehabbed Egg Stand — and LACMA Wants to Bring it to L.A.
Post date:NuMu, located in Guatemala City, is shaped like an egg and, at most, accommodates up to four visitors. But for those unable to travel to Central America, an exact replica of NuMu will be making its own pilgrimage.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Latinx Artists Explore the Idea of Home in this New LACMA Exhibit
Post date:“Home - So Different, So Appealing” examines the very personal idea of home and its relationship to heavy matters such as belonging, displacement and poverty, among many socio-political issues.
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Architecture and Design
Artbound
The Future Look of Wilshire's Museum Row
Post date:The transformation is underway. The physical manifestation of Wilshire Boulevard's Museum Row is emerging from east to west.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Navigating the Labyrinth: Inside the Museum of Jurassic Technology
Post date:Contrary to its name, there are no dinosaurs at The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Take a tour through the halls of the Los Angeles institution.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Nicole Miller: Mirror Images and the Power to Create Reality
Post date:As a visual artist working primarily in video, Nicole Miller often explores self-representation. She's not a documentarian, but her films sometimes reflect the lives of ordinary people.
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LGBT
Artbound
The Art of Unrest: The Political Undertones of Noah Purifoy and Mark Bradford
Post date:This summer, two solo exhibitions at Los Angeles area museums: "Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth" and "Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada" present significant bodies of work by African American artists, whose careers have blossomed in the city.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Noah Purifoy's Sophisticated Assemblage
Post date:At LACMA, exhibition "Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada" traces an overall chronology of the assemblage artist life's work.
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![Ed Moses, "Rose Screen," 1963. Graphite and acrylic on board in painted wood frame. Four panels: 60 x 21 1/2 inches each. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund. © 2015 Ed Moses, photo. © 2015 Museum Associates/ LACMA.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Ed_Moses_Rose_Screen_1963_LACMA.jpg?itok=hGJEY7Zv "Ed Moses, "Rose Screen," 1963. Graphite and acrylic on board in painted wood frame. Four panels: 60 x 21 1/2 inches each. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund. © 2015 Ed Moses, photo. © 2015 Museum Associates/ LACMA.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Ed Moses: The Compulsive Creator
Post date:Ed Moses has been painting for over 60 years. The 89-year-old artist is the subject of two new Los Angeles exhibitions.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Packrats and Possum Trot: Artists and Collectors of the Desert
Post date:A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggests that we are all purveyors and taxonomists of discarded refuse.
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!["Rainbow Action," <em>Beber y leer el arco iris</em>. 2012, performance, Casa América, Madrid. | Photo: Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/1_Naufus_Ramirez_Figueroa_Arcoiris.jpg?itok=9SMOQj1g ""Rainbow Action," <em>Beber y leer el arco iris</em>. 2012, performance, Casa América, Madrid. | Photo: Courtesy of the artist.")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa's Color and Tone Metaphors
Post date:Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa returns to his early exposure to experimental theatre in 1970s Guatemala.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
LACMA Acquires James Turrell and Robert Irwin Works and Announces Korean Exhibitions
Post date:LACMA announced a decade-long partnership, the Hyundai Project, which will support the museum's Art + Technology initiative.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Bari Kumar: Remembering the Sacred
Post date:"Remembering the Future" features artist Bari Kumar's work alongside a selection of objects from LACMA's South and Southeast Asian Art collection.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Pierre Huyghe's Unpredictable Ecosystems at LACMA
Post date:More than 50 works culled from French artist Pierre Huyghe's wide-ranging art are on large-scale display at LACMA, showcasing the captivating and cerebral microcosms that populate his larger universe.
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Where We Are
History & Society
Larry Sultan: Desire at the End of the Cul-de-sac
Post date:Larry's Sultan's retrospective at LACMA is a deeply felt meditation on the possibilities that can be found in an ordinary place. Sultan shows things awful and tender happen there.
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!["Ridged Helmet with Large Rivets," Japan, mid-Edo period, c.1730; iron, gold, silver, bronze, shakudo and leather; Photograph by Brad Flowers; Copyright The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/samurai_1.jpg?itok=2nk0at-i ""Ridged Helmet with Large Rivets," Japan, mid-Edo period, c.1730; iron, gold, silver, bronze, shakudo and leather; Photograph by Brad Flowers; Copyright The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas")
Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Beauty in Battle: The Refined Artistry of Samurai Armor
Post date:A new exhibition at LACMA spotlights Samurai and their battle gear.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
LACMA Gains a Half-Billion Dollar Art Collection From Former Univision Exec
Post date:The gift will be the largest donation of works of art in LACMA's history.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
Post date:Two exhibitions examine the period of cinema history when filmmaking talent crossed the Atlantic from Berlin, the center of German-language cinema, to Hollywood.