“Art AIDS America” West Hollywood 30 Year Retrospective Exhibition

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“Art AIDS America” West Hollywood 30 Year Retrospective Exhibition

The AIDS era of the 1980s and 90s was awful: the horror of people dying, the horror of our government denying funding for research and medications, the resulting demonstrations and culture wars. During that time, thirty years ago, the City of West Hollywood was founded out of an unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County, the…

Collecting Work by Los Angeles Artists: MOCA Art Talk with Curator Bennett Simpson

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Collecting Work by Los Angeles Artists: MOCA Art Talk with Curator Bennett Simpson

Bennett Simpson, an art curator at MOCA, shared some of the museum’s behind-the-scenes stories about its acquisition of the Laurence Rickels collection of contemporary art, and discussed some of the ways in which MOCA acquires artworks by Los Angeles artists. It was a fascinating gathering in MOCA’s continuing series of free Art Talks. This session…

Catherine Opie Updates the Old-Fashioned Portrait; at Regen Projects

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Catherine Opie Updates the Old-Fashioned Portrait; at Regen Projects

  There are some excellent photographs in town now that argue “yes, these are absolutely in the category of fine art” in the “is it” or “isn’t it” everlasting discussion about photography, and the best proof is Catherine Opie‘s current grand installation at Regen Projects. Her work is magnificently installed in a clean, white space…