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…
Thoughts
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)
ARQUITETURA DE LA EXCLUSION
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 ufaFabrik Berlin regrets to announce, the passing of Rudolf Brünger on the 23rd of March 2016. Rudolf Brünger, founding member and executive director of the International Cultural Centre ufaFabrik in Berlin will be sadly missed. An academic, driven by a tireless vision of sustainability in culture and creativity, he was an artist of humanity,…
Arahmaiani Feisal, Do not prevent the fertility of the mind
Babirye Leilah, Chain of Love
Babirye Leilah, Safe
Dinh Q. Le, Erasure
Dinh Q. Le, Erasure
Nidaa Badwan, Ladder
Nidaa Badwan, Victorian
Pascale Marthine Tayou, When Things Fall Apart
Pascale Marthine Tayou, When Things Fall Apart, detail
Regina-José-Galindo, Who Can Erase the Traces?
Regina-José-Galindo, Who Can Erase the Traces?
Tiffany Chung, Scratching the Walls of Memory
Thai Tuan Nguyen, Black Paintings Series
Thai Tuan Nguyen, Black Paintings Series
Wambui Kamiru, Harambee63
Wambui Kamiru, Harambee63, boots, detail
Milumbe Haimbe, Ananiya the Revolutionist
Milumbe Haimbe, Ananiya the Revolutionist
Rehema Chachage, The Flower
Zen Marie, The Perfect Leader
Clayton Campbell: What was the original impetus for you to curate this show? When the Trapholt Museum established a broad theme of the Artist in Society, why did you arrive at When Things Fall Apart? Did you have autonomy to choose your own theme? N’Gone Fall: The exhibition is part of a yearlong art festival…
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…
Kristy Edmunds, Director and Artistic Director, CAP UCLA
Dancer and Choreographer Maria Hassabi
Maria Hassabi at the Hammer Msueum
Matthew Barney Speaking at the Hammer Museum
Still from The River of Fundament
Musician and Composer John Zorn
Musician and Composer Claire Chase
Choreographic Coding Lab
Choreographer and Performance Artist Ann Carlson
Ann Carlson's The Symphonic Body
In a unique three year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. CAP UCLA has just concluded its first of the three- year Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts project. The project looks at how artist…
Otis College of Art and Design released its 2015 Creative Economy Report on February 27 and for its annual showing of the importance of this sector in California if not the nation gave a summary of facts and figures designed to advocate on behalf of the importance of the Creative Economy. By the study’s count,…
We are reprinting this updated essay, first published in Contemporary Magazine, London, October 2006, because it remains even more relevant today. Cultural Production in a Time of War/Clayton Campbell (The images are from Clayton Campbell’s project Words My Son Has Learned Since 9/11, begun in 2006, which was shown at the Maison Europennee de la…
Zandie Brockett, raised in the US and based in Beijing and Shanghai, is a rising curator who is looking closely at shifting social and economic trends by generating cross cultural arts projects. Her newest venture, “Teetering at the Edge of the World” examines specifically how the city, and the rise of the megalopolis is impacting…
In December I was at the culminating event of an exciting new project that I want to bring to the attention of our readership. This past fall the Santa Fe Art Institute pioneered SFAI Works, a new social entrepreneurship incubator focused on creative thinking, business acumen, community engagement, and leadership skills. SFAI Works is unique…
As we look forward to 2016 with a mixture of feelings shaped by the past years events and wonderment about the next, there are few among us who is not feeling some unease about what may come to pass. We are witnessing extreme forces of tension, both negative and positive, that give us hope and…
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