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Artist Salomón Huerta has an ironic style of creation that involves destruction. Huerta will be joining Zócalo at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on Wednesday, July 14 to discuss his artwork at the event Ego, Destruction, and Facebook.
Huerta is known for his paintings of the backs of people’s heads, commonly styled homes and masked [...]
Mark Bradford and Getty Museum promote Open Studio for Art Educators from The Art Reserve on Vimeo.
Los Angeles based artist, Mark Bradford and Getty Museum introduce the new online art eduction program offered to art educators called Open Studio. The program functions as a dual effort to bring contemporary artists into building new foundations for [...]
Episode #100! With his video History of the Main Complaint (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act.
The unveiling of the new video art project featured at Los Angeles International Airport is a collaboration of videos made by 17 different artists and art groups. A partial sneak peak of the video installation is displayed in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, the remainder of the exhibition will open this summer. Featuring videos based [...]
We previously reported that LAUSD’s $470-million budget shortfall was going to cut directly into our elementary children’s art education. Today, Los Angles Times reporter David Ng told us that arts hero Eli Broad has been named an honorary chair of Arts for LA, an advocacy group that organizes community support for arts education in the [...]
The LA Times announces the Board members of the L.A. Unified School District met Tuesday afternoon to discuss proposed budgetary cuts that call for, among other things, a dramatic reduction in arts education programs in elementary schools. While no decisions regarding the cuts were made, board members took the opportunity to speak with local arts [...]
