These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.
Matt Stromberg
Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. In addition to Hyperallergic, he has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, CARLA, Apollo, ARTNews, and other publications.
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Doug Aitken’s Poetic Tableau of Southern California
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work.
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Chicana Artist’s Once-Censored Mural Finds a New Home in LA
Barbara Carrasco’s landmark 80-foot painting portraying the city’s origins and evolution will anchor the Natural History Museum’s new wing.
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Maura Brewer Pulls Back the Curtain on Art Investors
The Los Angeles artist examines the contemporary phenomenon of art as asset class by focusing on the financial dealings of a billionaire investor and MoMA trustee.
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November
Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.
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Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist’s newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
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LA Artists Drape Keffiyeh on Noguchi Sculptures in Protest
David Horvitz and Ali Eyal’s subversive action was a response to the Noguchi Museum’s new policy banning staff from wearing the Arab headscarves.
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.
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Corita Art Center, Dedicated to the “Pop-Art Nun,” Gets New Home in LA
The artist, educator, and activist fused social justice and spirituality in her bold, vibrant works.
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Art and Science Intermix in Dozens of Exhibitions Across LA This Fall
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical.
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10 Art Shows to Visit in Los Angeles This September
Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more.
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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall
The city’s arts scene is in full swing again, with Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, queer science fiction, light in Medieval Europe, Christina Ramberg’s fragmented figuration, and more.