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One Hell of A Ride
A Liberated Women's Journey Through the 1960s

A proposed independent film and book about an elderly woman revisiting her provocative past in Los Angeles when she navigated the turbulent 1960s as film documentarian, rock n’ roll groupie and feminist with stories of violence, love, and inspiration.

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Scientific American: Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic

In this film document, Columbia University professor Ruth DeFries argues that global crises are now inevitable because of the complexity and interconnectedness of our modern civilization. And just as she wrapped up her years-long project on this topic, as she puts it, “all hell broke loose with COVID.” To survive future shocks like the ones nature has adapted to, some researchers believe our best hope lies in imitation or "Biomimicry." The conscious emulation of nature's genius.
- April 15, 2021

Hyperallergic Film Reviews: How New York Has Changed Over the Years, as Told By Pizza

With "Untitled Pizza Movie", David Shapiro digs up an abandoned '90s film on NYC pizza parlors as a time capsule.
- April 13, 2021

Air Mail News: Dial M for Mail

If Alfred Hitchcock contained multitudes, his films contained infinitudes in the eyes of his viewers, who wrote him too many letters to count.
- April 8, 2021

Artnet News: The Gray Market: How Deep-Pocketed Crypto-Collectors are Rushing Into an Old Artmarket Trap (and Other Insights)

Our columnist sees eerie parallels between the art spending of today’s crypto-wealthy buyers and an ill-fated group in the late 1980s.
- April 6, 2021

LA Times: Diverse representation is so critical in the arts because art can make an emotional connection that pure intellectualism can't

Representation isn’t just about visibility. Shootings remind us it’s about life and death.
- April 1, 2021

LA Times: Two Thai artifacts in a San Francisco museum were stolen. Now, they’re on their way home

Countless items unscrupulously harvested from archaeological sites in Asia have ended up in Western museums. Thanks to the research and efforts of Thai archaeologist Tanongsak Hanwong, two of those objects will be going back home.
- March 30, 2021

Artsy: Trending Female Artists

To mark Women’s History Month, Artsy Curatorial highlights works from the most sought-after female-identifying artists on Artsy in 2020. Browse a selection of highlights including a large-scale Makiko Kudo work, a Shirin Neshat photograph, and a striking fluorescent work by Regine Schumann.
- March 16, 2021

Hyperallergic: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's Long-Lost Comnedy Tour for Antiwar Troops

Suppressed upon release and stuck in obscurity for decades, the Vietnam War documentary "F.T.A." has been restored.
- March 11, 2021

The Verge: NTF's Explained

I have questions about this emerging... um... art form? Platform?
- March 9, 2021

Atlas Obscura: Can the Mighty Bankhar Dogs of Mongolia Save the Steppe?

These ancient guardians of the traditional nomadic way of life are making a comeback.​
- March 4, 2021

Frieze: Reasons to Be Optimistic: How Italy's Art Institutions Arose from the Pandemic

A country which was once the epicenter of COVID-19 has seen its art scene flourish thanks to the museums' community-driven response to the crisis.​
- March 2, 2021

Artnet News: Here's the True Tale Behind Netflix's Buzzy New Carey Mulligan Archaeology Drama, 'The Dig'

The film is tiggering new interest in Sutton Hoo, a 526-acre estate on the River Deben in Suffolk, England where the Anglo-Saxon ship burial was discovered. The film reveals the remarkable true story behind the historic excavation.​
- February 25, 2021

Artnet News: Archaeologists Have Discovered What May Be the World's Oldest Brewery Built for Ancient Egyptian Kings

The brewery was excavated in the royal graveyard of Abydos, 280 miles south of Cairo.​
- February 23, 2021

Artist Spotlight: Mayumi Oda

The remarkable Mayumi Oda unveils her powerful and beautiful Art Piece for February, the Four-Armed Saravasti With Pearls. She explains: "February begins the Spring in Japan and also the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year. 2021 is the year of the Metal Ox. The ox, in Chinese culture, is a hardworking zodiac sign. It signifies movement so, hopefully, the world will be less static than last year and get moving again. I wish you all new beginnings and moving out of the darkness of Winter and the darkness of fear that so many have been living under."
- February 18, 2021

Gallery Spotlight: Roberts Projects (Los Angeles)

Artist Jeffrey Gibson's solo exhibtion features new work exploring themes of identity as it relates to diversity and inclusivity–to uplift the unique experiences, struggles and personal victories shaping the current fight for LGBTQIA visibility. "It Can Be Said of Them" takes its title from a print produced by Sister Corita Kent in 1969. Kent’s print was part of her “Heroes and Sheroes” series. Until February 27, 2021.
- February 16, 2021

Peter Fetterman Gallery

The Power of Photography Series invites viewers to share Peter Fetterman's personal reflections of his favorite images. He has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 30 years. The gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th Century photography in the country particularly in humanist photography.
- February 11, 2021

Hyperallergic: A Sleek, Whale-shaped Observatory to Watch Marine Life

The stunning site is planned to open at the tip of Norway's Andoya Island, about 186 miles north of the Arctic circle, in 2022.
- February 9, 2021

Hyperallergic: The Contours of Black American Life, According to Gordon Parks

Viewing Park's photographs in 2021 offers stark, graceful reminders of the ongoing fight for civil rights.
- February 4, 2021

LA Times Entertainment & Arts: A COVID-era balancing act for survival at world-famous Le Petit Cirque

In a typical year, the young professional circus artists of Le Petit Cirque would be awing audiences worldwide. But with COVID-19 they've faced innumerable cancellations and lost more that $150,000 in revenue. They need support.
- January 28, 2021

LA Times Entertainment & Arts: The official “inauguration painting” chosen by Jill Biden and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “Landscape With Rainbow,” a 1859 oil on canvas by Robert S. Duncanson.

Times art critic Christopher Knight notes that Duncanson was a prominent Black artist painting America on the “brink of catastrophe,” with the Civil War around the corner. But “Landscape With Rainbow” carries with it an unmistakable ray of hope: Rainbows typically appear after a storm has passed, not before.”
- January 26, 2021

KCET: Poetry is Political: Amanda Gorman's America

The 22-year-old Los Angeles native is the youngest inauguration poet in American history, officially writing her words "into tomorrow."
- January 21, 2021

Hyperallergic: An Expansive View of Asian Identity at the Asia Society Triennial

Though it occasionally stumbles, the first iteration of "We Do Not Dream Alone" signals a promising commitment to prolonged investment in art from the Asian diaspora in New York.
- January 19, 2021

Hyperallergic: How a Trump Executive Order Aims to Set White Supremacy in Stone

In the recent tumult many seem to have missed how a recent executive order "Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" looks to enshrine the success of the 2017 "Unite the Right" in Charlottesville.
- January 14, 2021

Artnet News: These Three Tech Companies Are Locked in a Bitter Battle to Capture Your Attention With the World’s Best Immersive Van Gogh Experience.

In New York, San Francisco, and Indianapolis, companies are warring with Van Gogh-inspired light installations.
- December 22, 2020

Artsy: Mexican-born Artist Abraham Cruzvillegas Is Growing an Oasis of Healing Plants in a Miami Park

The installation in Collins Park, which runs through April 18, 2021, will feature more than 1,000 plants of 27 different species, many with a history of use for healing.
- December 17, 2020

Artnet News: MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Show Spotlights Young Photographers Making the Medium Tactile. There’s Just One Problem: It’s Online Only.

"Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020" is on view through MoMA's Online Magazine now through March 21, 2021.
- December 15, 2020

Airmail Culture Matrix: About Time: Fashion and Duration

On the milestone of the Met Museum's 150th birthday, the Costume Institute celebrates with an exhibition that addresses that most amorphous subject--time--and does so in scintillating style. Until Feb. 7, 2021 at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
- December 10, 2020

Artnet News: It's a Christmas Miracle! An Archaeologist May Have Just Found Jesus's Childhood Home in Nazareth.

A group of nuns stumbled upon the site in the 1880s without knowing what they may have found.
- December 8, 2020

Airmail Culture Matrix: Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

The year 1963 saw the founding of the Kamoinge collective of Black photographers, its vision giving momentum to the Black Arts movement. “Kamoinge,” which means “a group of people acting together,” and comes from the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya. A new exhibition collects nearly 150 photos from 14 of the collective’s early members. Until March 28, 2021 at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
- December 3, 2020

Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA) launched galleryplatform.la to serve the dynamic Los Angeles art community with weekly rotating gallery viewing rooms and original editorial content.

This week, check out a video profile on artist Reynaldo Rivera who was introduced to photography as a young migrant worker. Also an LA Gallery History feature by Catherine Wagley that highlights the fleeting yet exhilarating history of Gallery 669 and its risk-taking founder Riko Mizuno.
- November 24, 2020

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Artist Spotlight: Jeffrey Gibson Jan. 9 - Feb. 20, 2021 at Roberts Projects

"It Can Be Said of Them": Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition will feature new work exploring themes of identity, as it relates to diversity and inclusivity, to uplift unique experiences, struggles and personal victories shaping the fight for LGBTQIA visibility. Taking its title from a print produced by Sister Corita Kent in 1969 of the same name, It Can Be Said of Them will be Gibson’s second show with the gallery.
- November 19, 2020

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Artnet News: The 600-Year-Old Vatican Library Using Artificial Intelligence to Ward Off Hackers Targeting Its Digital Collections

The Vatican Library is digitizing its collection of more than 80,000 manuscripts.
- November 17, 2020

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‘We Painted, Sang, and Danced Our Way to the Polls’: Artists React to US President-Elect Joe Biden’s Victory

The Joe Biden victory and historic vice presidency of Kamala Harris elicited quite a reaction from artists on social media.
- November 12, 2020

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Los Angeles Times: Artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House

Rodney McMillian's installation "Against a Civic Death" showed at Contemporary Austin in 2018. A prescient work that feels deeply relevant.
- November 10, 2020

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Frieze: Why Artists Created a Mark Zuckerberg ‘Deepfake’

The viral video heralds a future of disinformation.
- November 5, 2020

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Frieze: A Brief History of Disinformation

Stephen Squibb on the tactics of untruth, from Martha Rosler to Hito Steyerl. A timely look.
- November 3, 2020

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Artsy: Why the Art World Is Embracing Craft

Glenn Adamson writes about the fascinating process of craft steadily moving into the realm of art. And why it's so important.
- October 29, 2020

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Artsy: How Quiltmaking's Deep Traditions Are Influencing Contmporary Art

Isis Davis-Marks writes about quilts and their historic and aesthetic value, and the art world's growing interest in this art form.
- October 27, 2020

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Hyperallergic: How Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson Killed Her Father Multiple Times (for a Movie)

The documentarian talks to Hyperallergic about Dick Johnson is Dead, and how "we need new language to allow for the extreme diversity that is life and death."
- October 22, 2020

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Hyperallergic: The Undocumented Activisits Who Turned Themselves In to Infiltrate ICE

Hyperallergic talks to Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, the directors of the documentary film The Infiltrators, about how they filmed this "reverse heist."
- October 20, 2020

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Edward Ruscha Book: Every Building on the Sunset Strip

In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text, Ruscha opened the genre to the possibilities of mass-production and distribution. The 25-foot length of the accordion-folded Every Building on the Sunset Strip affords the viewer two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of Sunset, one for each side of one of the city’s landmark thoroughfare.
- October 15, 2020

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Colab: CultureHub's free online workshop series for the next generation of creators.

A series of online micro-courses exploring art and technology.
- October 13, 2020

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Residency: Create technologically-informed work as a CultureHub Resident Artist

Bringing artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future.
- October 8, 2020

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The Pantone Color Institute Has Introduced a New Red Hue to Encourage 'Period Positivity'

Pantone's latest color is a vibrant new red.
- October 6, 2020

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ManOfMany: Vincent Namatjira Becomes the First Indigenous Artist to Win the Archibald Prize

Australia’s most prestigious portrait competition has finally recognized an Indigenous artist.
- October 1, 2020

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Artillery: Pick of the Week: Brian Atchley

Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles
- September 29, 2020

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Mayumi Oda: Artist Spotlight

Called the "Matisse of Japan," Mayumi Oda is an artist and environmental activist known worldwide for her bold paintings of goddesses and female beauties. She lives on the Big Island of Hawai'i at her Ginger Hill Farm.
- September 24, 2020

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Stylist: 5 Women Artists and Activists Whose Work Was Overshadowed By Their Husbands'

From a pioneering anthropologist to an acclaimed painter, Stylist highlights five women who deserve to be celebrated in their own right.
- September 22, 2020

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Artnet News: Nancy Dine, a Filmmaker Who Redefined the Role of the 'Artist's Wife,' Has Died at 83

Nancy Dine, who was married to artist Jim Dine for 40 years was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996.
- September 17, 2020

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Hyperallergic: Books: Vivid Posters Chart a "People's History" of the Struggle for Social Justice

Enjoy an excerpt of Celebrate People’s History, a timely book of political posters reprinted by the Feminist Press. 
- September 10, 2020

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Hyperallergic: Comics: The "Artists in Residence" of Fishkill Correctional Facility

Within a week of landing in Fishkill, I found myself in a confab of the inmate-run illustration group. 
​- September 8, 2020

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Artnet News: Immersive Art Experiences Used to be the Wave of the Future. But Can They Outlast the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Experts say participatory art may be changed forever.
​- September 3, 2020

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Artnet News: The Art Angle Podcast: The Secret Art History of Burning Man

Burning Man co-founder and photographer Will Roger conveys the magic of the (almost) anything-goes cultural festival.  
​- September 1, 2020

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Hyperallergic: A Museum Director Asks: What if Art Museums Can't Measure Up to the Present Moment?

As the world moves rapidly toward irreversible and necessary change, art museum directors are talking about adapting their institutions to the times. But what if adaptation is not enough? 
​- August 27, 2020

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New York Times Art & Design: A Black Nurse Saved Lives. Today She May Save Art.

Once a slave, Biddy Mason went on to a life of extraordinary accomplishments. The fact that she figures in W.P.A. murals in San Francisco may save them from destruction. - August 20, 2020

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Artnet News: Renoir's 'Luncheon of the Boating Party.' 3 Things You May Not Know About the Impressionist Icon

Outdoor dining is the necessary rage in 2020. And Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s "The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)" offers a summertime visual feast with more than meets the eye.
​- August 18, 2020

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Hyperallergic: Reimagining Higher Education Through Socially Engaged Art

City University of New York (CUNY) professors are looking to artists to reimagine the COVID-19 aftermath. 
​- August 13, 2020

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Artsy: Galleries and Fairs Are Turning to Virtual Reality to Connect with Collectors

Since the COVID-19 shut down, art-world players are learning they must adapt to VR (virtual reality), AR (alternate reality) and MR (Mixed Reality), a medium still largely unexplored. 
​- August 11, 2020

In Search of the Next Meal

Lucy Birmingham article, “In Search of the Next Meal,” featured in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Prism Magazine receives the Apex 2020, 32nd Annual Award for Publication Excellence. 
​- August 6, 2020

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 Artsy: 19 Gallerists Share Their Love for Collecting and Dream Purchases​

​As gallerists develop relationships with artists and travel the world to see and sell art, they often become major collectors in their own right. 
​- August 4, 2020

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Artnet News: How Native American Art Has Become a Sleeper Sensation in Museums and the Art Market Alike

The Independent art fair is taking its cue this year from "maverick" dealers who spotlight marginalized communities. 
​​- July 30, 2020

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Artsy: How Graffiti Artists Are Propelling the Vision of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Walls covered in graffiti and street art can offer a synopsis of social movements ​
​- July 27, 2020

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Art News: Exciting News on Sister Corita Kent, the Pop Art Nun who Combined Warhol with Social Justice

https://bit.ly/2Cie7hb ​
​- June 23, 2020

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Art News: How Have Artists Shaped Previous Protest Movements?

We asked historians to weigh in on the role that artists have played in pas instances of social, economic, and cultural unrest 
​- June 18, 2020

In Search of the Next Meal

Lucy C Birmingham article, "In Search of the Next Meal," featured in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Prism Magazine, recieves 26th Annual Communicator Award of Excellence 
​- June 9, 2020

Getty Museum

Getty Creates $10 Million LA Arts
COVID-19 Relief Fund will provide grants
to hard-hit nonprofits in Los Angeles County 
​- April 2, 2020

LA County Museum of Art

W.M. Keck Foundation’s $50 Million Gift
Pushes Building LACMA Campaign Toward
$650 Million Mark to Launch Construction Project 
​- January 30, 2020

The Broad

The Broad Celebrates Fifth Anniversary with Free Exhibitions, New In-Depth Installations,
Artist Conversations 
​- January 29, 2020