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10 Questions: What is Beauty?
Post date:What do performance, genetics, art and feminist media have to do with beauty? UCLA professors J.Ed Araiza, Paul Barber, Marla Berns and Kathleen McHugh ponder "What is Beauty?"
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Performance
Artbound
The Modern Dance Community Thrives on Crenshaw
Lula Washington and the Legacy of Dance in Los Angeles
Post date:The Lula Washington Dance Theatre offer dance classes and structure for local young people while also educating them about black history and current events through dance.
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Performance
Artbound
Three African-American Women Who Revolutionized Modern Dance
Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus and Lula Washington transformed modern dance
Post date:From ballet and modern dance to Lindy hop and hip-hop, African-American women have left indelible marks on the dance community.
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Performance
Artbound
Pas de Deux: The Washingtons' Addition to Crenshaw
Post date:Bringing dance to South Los Angeles was a task that Lula and Erwin Washington felt was worth fighting for, but they learned the hard way that it wasn't going to be easy.
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Performance
Artbound
Open Your Eyes: Lula Washington Dance Theatre
Post date:The Lula Washington Dance Theatre has gone along a bumpy journey with Southern Los Angeles. Through earthquakes and racial politics, this theater stands strong as a platform to spread an important message to society.
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Music
Artbound
This Riverside Art Rock Band Looks to Life in the Region for Inspiration
Post date: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.
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Performance
Artbound
Sewing is an Act of Rebellion: Frau Fiber's Crusade
Post date:Carole Frances Lung's one of a kind garment production performances investigating the human cost of mass production and consumption.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Beyond Museum Walls: Wolvesmouth
Post date:"Wolvesmouth", a dining experience as performance art, created by the chef Craig Thornton.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Jack Levinson and the Story of Indie Rockers Square Circle
Post date:Artist Jack Levinson is a world builder. His characters, including members of the indie rock band Square Circle, live on in interactive plays and expanding online archives.
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Performance
Artbound
Life After Mattress Girl: Emma Sulkowicz Reclaims Her Identity
Post date:Emma Sulkowicz's 2014 performance drew attention to sexual assault. Her latest work pairs the artist with her robotic doppelganger.
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Performance
Artbound
Mirabelle Jones Fights For Women's Rights One Catcall at a Time
Post date:Los Angeles-based artist Mirabelle Jones seeks to create dialogue about violence through her engaging performances.
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Performance
Artbound
Brainchild: An Otherworldly Ceremony on a Simulated Mars
Post date:Kathleen Johnson's multi-faceted performance "Brainchild" tells the story of a woman who explores the remnants of an alien civilization. The piece was recently staged at the Mars Desert Research Station -- a landscape with which it has clear associatio...
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Performance
Artbound
John Fleck's Edgy Performance Art
Post date:Performance artist John Fleck's latest one-man show "Blacktop Highway" takes inspiration from classic horror cinema and Freud's Theory of Mind. The stage production -- featuring Fleck playing a variety of characters, puppets and video -- runs at REDCA...
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Performance
Artbound
Sarah Elgart: A Career in Motion
Post date:Sarah Elgart's site-specific projects in Los Angeles have transformed bus terminals, airports, and museums into veritable action paintings.
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Performance
Artbound
The Evolution of My Barbarian
Post date:From a theatrical project to a performance art group, My Barbarian's latest venture is "Double Agency," a performance about secret agents that was filmed in the galleries of LACMA.
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Machine Project
Artbound
Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture: Everyone Will Be Here Now But Me
Post date:"Everyone Will Be Here Now But Me" is an immersive sound installation where the public explores endless hallways, windowless offices, and stairwells of a mixed-use building.
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Artbound
Jacqueline Gordon's L.A. Food Center Soundscapes
Post date:"Everyone Will Be Here Now But Me" is an immersive sound installation where the public explores endless hallways, windowless offices, and stairwells of a mixed-use building.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Paul Pescador and the Dark Side of Intimacy
Post date:Paul Pescador's art wants to get familiar with you. His work keep viewers at an emotional and physical distance, creating a constant yearning for consistency.
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performance art
Artbound
Infinite Maybes: The Liminal Spaces of Hirokazu Kosaka
Post date:L.A.-based Japanese artist, Hirokazu Kosaka explores the concept of in-between spaces in his transformative pieces.
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film and media arts
Artbound
The Transformative Nature of David Wojnarowicz's ITSOFOMO
Post date:"ITSOFOMO: In the Shadow of Forward Motion" is considered one of the most intense works of art produced during the years that the AIDS crisis cut through the art world.