Adornment | Artifact is a multi-venue art experience that celebrates ancient Nubia through contemporary art, events, and conversations. Housed at multiple sites across the city, Adornment ⏐ Artifact investigates how contemporary artworks made in Los Angeles by LA-based artists engage and express the traditions, objects, and materials that shaped the cultures of the Nile River Valley.
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Adornment | Artifact: Ancient Nubia in Los Angeles
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Ireichō
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration and to expand the concept of what monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as a monument (Ireichō), a website as a monument (Ireizō), and light sculptures as monuments (Ireihi). The Ireichō contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who…
$7 – $9
Alicia Piller: Within
Exhibition curator jill moniz conceived of Within “to develop a project with Alicia Piller that would amplify her practice of both rooting and elevating the connective matter of art and identity. Her work takes us inside cultural ideas and narratives, then she gives us the expansive 36,000-foot view of our relationship to the earth – again as matter, as elemental – shaped and shaping our existence toward something profound and inspiring. Adults – $9, Students, Teachers, and Seniors –…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
An in-depth installation of Jean-Michel Basquiat, features all 13 works by the artist in the Broad collection, including three works on view for the first time at The Broad: Santo 2, Deaf, and Wicker. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursdays & Fridays 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
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New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions
New Abstracts showcases an expansive range of practices constituting abstract art today. Many artists working with abstract vocabularies today interrogates not only the possibilities of color, material, gesture, and form, but also the potential for injecting abstract art with political, spiritual, or personal meaning. Featured artists include Peter Bradley and Jade Fadojutimi. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Fridays 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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Henry Taylor: B Side
Henry Taylor: B Side is the largest exhibition of Taylor’s work to date. It is a survey of thirty years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. This retrospective celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision, and freewheeling experimentation. Populated by friends and relatives, strangers on the street, athletic stars, politicians, and entertainers, Taylor’s canvases describe an imagination encompassing multiple worlds. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Fridays, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,…