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Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic
In the pandemic, Air, an arts residency focused on climate change, transforms into a nomadic institution.
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'Hindsight Is 2020' Offers Visceral (Not Virtual) Art Experiences in a Box
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In this Pasadena Church, God and Thought-Provoking Art Share Space
For about a year now, artist Gregory Michael Hernandez has been putting together thought-provoking exhibitions as the artist-in-residence at an unlikely institution: the Missiongathering Christian Church of Pasadena.
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Renaissance-Style Religious Paintings Highlight the Struggles of Black People Worldwide
The time is more than ripe to see Mark Steven Greenfield’s “Black Madonna,” a new suite of paintings and drawings that meditate on the fraught, violent history of Africans brought to America against their will.
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How L.A. Galleries Are Adjusting to New Realities
Writer Carol Cheh speaks with a handful of galleries to ask how they are faring as galleries are allowed to reopen. Her conversations reveal a fascinating range of perspectives and prospects.
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For a Better World, We Need More Art, Not Less
Amidst “Safer at Home” orders and racism, Drive-By-Art shows art’s power to move, inspire, make us think and bring us together as we work toward a better world.
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Isamu Noguchi: A Voluntary Stay at the Japanese American Internment Camp
Isamu Noguchi, who was based on the East Coast, volunteered to be incarcerated, driven by an idealistic desire to be of service in the camps by using his skills to design and build structural improvements.
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Satellite Space's Video Art Panopticon
Satellite Space offers a platform for artists to engage with a more theatrical environment that is the exact opposite of the typical white cube gallery space.
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The Quiet Revolution of the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms
The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms works to raise awareness around global labor issues and history through a variety of performative and participatory projects.
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François Ghebaly Debuts a Downtown Los Angeles Arts Cooperative
In L.A., all the high-end galleries may be moving to Hollywood, but the more ambitious alternative art spaces are setting up shop in the obscure reaches of downtown.