Tag: the Hammer Museum

• The Art that Helped Me Survive 2017

  

  Look, I know it’s dramatic, but 2017 was tough and I’m not even going to try to sugar coat it. Despite this, I saw some incredible work that helped me make some sense of the world we find ourselves in today. Here are 9 highlights: 1. Kenyatta Hinkle, The Evanesced @ CAAM The Evanesced at CAAM…

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  December 29, 2017

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museums, Uncategorized, writing

  arthur jafa, Betye Saar, black art, CAAM, craft and folk, Genevieve Gaignard, Kenyatta Hinkle, MOCA, Octavia Butler, pst la/la, Radical Women, the Hammer Museum, We Wanted a Revolution

• Radical Women Take Center Stage in Two Important L.A. Exhibitions

  

  Two exhibitions at the Hammer Museum and CAAM in Los Angeles have taught me one important thing: radical women get things done. If you silence them, they find a way to speak, if you hide them, they will be seen, and if you ignore their work, they will make their presence known. History has an…

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  November 10, 2017

  Art, Art/Culture, black history, Los Angeles, Museums, Uncategorized

  black art, Black Artists, CAAM, Contemporary Art, latin american art, latinx artists, Lorraine O’Grady, Patricia Restrepo, Radical Women, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum, We Wanted a Revolution

• Talking Heads: Jimmie Durham & Wangechi Mutu

  

    I recently encountered two similar works of art, one in L.A. and the other online: the first is by an artist with a 40+ year career who has self selected out of the U.S. art scene for over 2 decades and the second is from a Kenyan born artist with a Brooklyn based practice…

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  March 23, 2017

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, black history, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, new york, sculpture, Uncategorized

  brancusi, Gladstone Gallery, Jimmie Durham, Los Angeles, New York, Sculpture, the Hammer Museum, Wangechi Mutu