News Archive

041517:  Hippie Modernism The Struggle for Utopia @ BAMPFA. Protests on the walls accompanied by protests in the streets.

032617:  Radical Bodies Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972 @ AD&A Museum UC Santa Barbara. "My body remains the enduring reality." [Yvonne Rainer, 1968]

031617:  Mistresses of Architecture: Leading the Academy Dr. Harriet Harriss in panel @ The Neutra VDL House. Bringing back the feminist conversation. But, let's not start over. Let's build upon the scholarship that dropped off after the 90's, embrace the more recent awakening to intersectionality, and recognize the real barriers to culture thriving through difference (economics and systemic fear).

031417:  Aruna D’Souza Conversations @ The Hammer. "Dubuffet Drawings, 1935-1962." Art brut as protest.

031017:  Minor Matter Ligia Lewis @ Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati). A powerful performance -- the black body in the black box, aesthetics beyond identity politics.

021817:  Afrika! Dobet Gnahoré @ The Luckman Fine Arts Complex. The audience takes the stage and dance makes the world a better place -- if only for an evening.

020717:  Miguel Buenrostro aka. Reactivando Espacios @ Sci-Arc. Lecture for Rene Peralta. Architecture as character, the humanity of building, and space as memory.

120416:  Gloria Steinem and Jill Soloway: In Conversation @ CAP UCLA. Getting the "love" revolution started.

110316:  LA Forum’s “Out There Doing It” Rafik Anadol and Claret Cup (Bojána Bányász and Donatella Cusmá) capturing moments in both data and ink. Tim Durfee moderating.

103016:  Screening: Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Food,’ (1972) Introduced by art historian Andrea Gyorody at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. A window into the casual innocence of the art that was.