This past September, Creative Capital announced the Dinners Project, a platform for artists and communities around the country to host potluck-style gatherings in locations across the United States from October 4 to 7, 2018 to ensure artists’ voices are an active part of civic discourse leading up to the midterm elections. Fourteen Creative Capital Awardees…
Presenters and Presentations
On the morning of the third and final installment of his Los Angeles exhibitions, Ai Wei Wei was disarming yet candid with a small group of persons at the UTA Space in Beverly Hills. Looking a little tired from the past few days, he warmed up as the questions came his way, and offered some…
It was a terrific evening under a beautiful Los Angeles night sky this past September 29 at The Ford Theatre to see Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Media –– an unprecedented collaboration exploring the intersection of skateboarding and jazz. Improvisation abounds as local skaters shredded a ramp on stage to a musical response performed live by Jason Moran…
My post from December 10, 2015, Now That Artists Can’t Afford the Arts District, LA Needs to Re-Think Its Role As A Creative City, written by Caroline Miranda of the Los Angeles Times, is worth revisiting upon the recent occasion of the Common Field Convening. http://claytoncampbellconsulting.com/newsworthy/now-that-artists-cant-afford-the-arts-district-l-a-needs-to-rethink-its-role-as-a-creative-city Held this past November 2-5 at the Japanese American…
PST LA/LA has many venues including all of our large museums with wonderful catalogues and ambitious check-lists. And then there are small alternative galleries that received no funding but are part of the overall programming. Such is the case with the indefatigable Loft at Liz’s, voted one of the ten top best galleries in Los…
This past March 6-12, and just before the passing of Trisha Brown, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) wrapped up the second of its three year project, Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts (CIVP). Under the leadership of Executive and Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds, CAP had already had Choreographers Deborah Hay…
Campbell Consultants Group is once again working with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA evaluating their Collaborative Intersection in the Visual and Performing Arts Project (CIVP) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This season they will be focused on Choreographer Deborah’s presentation of “A Platform in Three Parts in October 2016;…
This past April 15th and 16th in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts saw the second meeting of what could be called a proactive advocacy alliance, Arts In A Changing America. Also known as ArtChangeUS, the brain child of Roberta Uno (formerly with Ford Foundation) and now based out of the…
Gilbert Magu Lujan, Mingo and Fireboy, ca 1988
Juan Downey, Map of America, 1975
Ayrson HeraclitoBori – Oxum
Carlos Almaraz, Crash in Phthalo Green (detail), 1984
Copyart, Experimental Printmaking in Brazil 1970-1990s
Courret Brothers, lace d’Armes, Lima, from the album Views of Chile and Peru, ca. 1868
David Lamelas, The artist with Piel Rosa (Pink-skin) (19651997)
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Graciela Sacco, Untitled (#8), 1993
Hector Hernandez, Bulca, 2015
Javier Calvo (Costa-Rica), Solo yo, 2012
Julio LeParc, Kinncchromatic Object, 19691986
Marie Orensanz, Limitada, 1978
Photograph by La Raza Photographic Staff, East L.A. High School Walkouts, 1968
Tatiana Parcero, Cartografia Interior #43, 1996
Tlacolulokos mural, Tehuana 13 Woman from Tehuantepec 13, 2013
JoséClemente Orozco, Prometheus, 1930
Laura Aguilar, Nature Self Portraits #12, 1992
Alfredo de Batuc, Dia de los Muertos, 1979
Actor and director Edward James Olmos as El Pachuco in a scene from Zoot Suit (1981)
The Getty Foundation has followed up its hugely successful Pacific Standard Time: 1945-1980 with a second iteration to open in September 2017 focusing on a region wide exploration of Latin American and Latino Art. Diverging from the tight focus of a half century of modernist and contemporary art making activity, this version ranges over centuries…
LA’s newest gallery addition is more like a small kunsthalle as former LA MOCA Chief Curator and now HWS Partner Paul Schimmel leads the way for Hauser and Wirth’s sixth international gallery. Opening yesterday, March 13 in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, huge crowds blocked the sidewalks and cars filled the streets for…