The Asian Pacific Resource Center is a special collection of the LA County Library that encompasses academic materials as well as film, music, novels, magazines, and newspapers. The collection focuses on the Asian American Pacific Islander American experience, with core holdings in history, art, and culture. The center has over 100 titles on microfilm of historical Asian immigrant newspapers published in the US. Also on microfilm, the center has newspapers and documents from the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
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Community Arts
Community Arts is held outside in Hermon Park most Saturdays. Join us in exploring the arts, from puppets to painting. Let’s keep each other healthy, please stay home if you feel unwell or have any potential Covid symptoms. If the weather is extreme due to high heat or rain, Community Arts will be canceled.
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Rita McBride: Particulates
The Hammer’s new bank gallery opens with Particulates, an installation by Rita McBride that is part of the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Inspired by time travel, the principles of light and space, and quantum physics, this monumental yet ethereal sculpture is a conjunction of water molecules, surfactant compounds, and the beams of high-intensity lasers that materialize as they interact with particulates of mist emitted into the space. Particulates exchanges gravity, a core element in sculpture, for the potential of infinitely traversable…
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Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency
An exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late interdisciplinary artist Milford Graves (1941-2021), whose revolutionary experiments – spanning music, medicine, movement, and art – explore the cosmic relationships between rhythms and the universe. The presentation will be accompanied by live performances and programs specific to music, movement, and medicine. Opening Celebration at ICA LA on February 11, 2023, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Wednesdays & Fridays 12:00 noon – 6:00 p.m., Thursdays 12:00 noon -7:00 p.m., Saturdays…
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Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance
The Work of Radiance is a retrospective of the groundbreaking 30-year career of Myrlande Constant, and the first solo U.S. museum exhibition devoted to the work of a Haitian female contemporary artist.
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Form and Function in the Ancient Americas
Vincent Price Art Museum’s permanent collection includes artworks from ancient civilizations in Central and South America, with a concentration of art from West Mexico and Peru. Form and Function in the Ancient Americas highlights the wide range of cultures represented in our pre-Columbian collection. Cultures from the Nayarit-Jalisco-Colima region of West Mexico (2000 – 1000 BCE) to the Chimú of Peru (900-1500 CE) are featured. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m., Thursdays 12:00 noon – 7:00…