JULIE MEHRETU AND MARCUS SAMUELSSON IN CONVERSATION
On the occasion of the closing week of the Whitney exhibition JULIE MEHRETU, the artist will join Red Rooster proprietor Marcus Samuelsson and curator Rujeko Hockley for an online conversation about art, food, and life.
FELIX ART FAIR 2021
Betye Saar, Jerry Saltz, Max Greenfield, and hundreds of artists, collectors, and gallerists descended on the Roosevelt Hotel for the Felix Art Fair 2021. With the hotel's poolside mid-century-modern cabanas making up in charm what they lacked in space, the
ALIEN NATION
Avoiding overt figuration of the body almost entirely, this exhibition is not interested in redefining the human along identity-based lines, nor in referring to some culturally-derived nostalgia for the natural. Instead, it looks to artists who are investigating the ways
BRIAN GETNICK AND TANYA RUBBAK — FINAL TRANSMISSION SIGNING
NS (formerly known as Native Strategies), the performance art journal of Los Angeles, is a six-volume archive of performance art production in L.A. from 2011 to 2016. At the start NS was created to bring artists together at live performance
YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY — THE SAPPHIRE SHOW
Don't miss the closing days of YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY—THE SAPPHIRE SHOW, a reimagining of a landmark 1970 Los Angeles group exhibition featuring the work of Gloria Bohanon, Yvonne Cole Meo, Suzanne Jackson, Eileen Nelson (formerly Eileen Abdulrashid).
IVO DIMCHEV — HALAL
As part of Impulstanz 2021, performance artist, writer, and musician Ivo Dimchev will perform a new series of songs, “probably [written] as a compensatory reaction to the frustrated global picture.”
MORE LIFE — MARLON RIGGS’ TONGUES UNTIED
When the German doctors had told me that both of my kidneys had ceased to function and that I was HIV positive to boot? Stunned, inert, silent, yet alert. I lay in that German hospital bed, my inner eyes, at
CHERYL I. HARRIS ON THE ATTACK ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY
On the occasion of the exhibition KANDIS WILLIAMS—THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE: REFLECTIONS ON AND IMPLICATIONS OF CHERYL HARRIS’ WHITENESS AS PROPERTY, LAXART presents a conversation with Harris—professor at the UCLA School of Law—on the right-wing backlash against critical race
ROSANNA GAMSON / WORLD WIDE — SUGAR HOUSES
Following a one-off recital of Oedipus Rex at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in June, indoor performances returned to downtown Los Angeles earlier this month with the world premiere engagement of SUGAR HOUSES by Rosanna Gamson/World Wide at REDCAT. Judiciously spaced in
KON ICHIKAWA — TOKYO OLYMPIAD
Ichikawa frequently courted controversy in his career, [but the] film that incited the most controversy, however, turned out to be the comparatively “innocent” and potentially uplifting official documentary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. A rare documentary in Ichikawa's filmography, and
