Glimpses

Real Danger With Bonkers

An Interview With Artist Hilja Keading

February 21, 2012

by Stephanie Washburn

A pioneer of Los Angeles video, Hilja Keading looks at the intersection of psychology and comedy. Her works include video installation, sculptural installation, billboards, drawing, and painting. She has received the National Endowment for the Arts New Genre Fellowship, and her work has been featured in national and international exhibitions, including the Getty Museum’s “History of Video in California” in 2008, “Videoformes” in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and “Made In California” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. …

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A Florid Look At Love

What Happens In the Flower District While You Sleep

On February 13, 2012

Valentine’s Day starts early for the florists. On February 13th, hours before most people were waking up, the business of buying and selling was underway in the six square blocks that make up L.A.’s Flower District. Zócalo invites our readers to check out the roses before they arrive at your local florist—or at your door. …

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Now Dig This!

Work From L.A.’s Groundbreaking 1960s and 1970s African-American Art Scene

On January 5, 2012

Inspired by the civil rights and black power movements, drawn to L.A. by economic opportunity, and nourished by a thriving Southern California arts scene, African-American artists formed a historic cultural community in the city in the 1960s and 1970s. They would influence not just one another but also the course of 20th century art in the region and the nation. As the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 goes into its final weekend at the Hammer Museum, we present a selection of work—sculpture, painting, mixed-media projects—from a group of pioneering artists including Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, and David Hammons. Get a taste here, then catch Now Dig This!—which the Los Angeles Times named one of the 10 best museum shows of the year —while you still can. …

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If These Walls Could Talk

Photographs and Drawings from Allied Works Architecture/Brad Cloepfil: Occupation

On October 17, 2011

For over a decade, architect Brad Cloepfil and his firm, Allied Works Architecture, have been designing some of the United States’s most influential public, institutional, commercial, and residential buildings. A new monograph, Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture: Occupation documents some of their major projects, like New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design and Portland, Oregon’s Wieden+Kennedy Building, as well as the progress of their work, from original inspiration through drawing and modeling, and finally, construction. This stunning slideshow is a small window into their art…

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Here’s Your Cuba

What You See When You Look At Us

On August 24, 2011

Cuba is a small island nation that occupies a large, perhaps even outsized, place in the American imagination. Cut off by embargo from the United States since 1961, Cuba is as much a memory and an idea to Americans as it is a concrete place. Cubans are aware of this. They know that in many ways the peculiarities and hardships of their lives are, in the eyes of outsiders, scenery…

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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